Defending "Western Civilization" in the Ukraine?

Russia, through its literature, has given us Pushkin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Solzehnitsyn and many more, before one even considers its ballet, its opera, its classical music. Has the Ukraine produced even a fraction of this great cultural deposit? This is not to hold a brief for Putin or to defend his invasion. It is merely to note that arguing that supporting the Ukraine in what amounts to a world war under the banner of “Defending Western Civilization” is… well, strange. The great Russian literature of the 19^th and 20^th centuries is much more centrally “Western” than anything the Ukraine has ever produced. We’re fighting for something in the Ukraine, and it may be that it’s a good thing, but it’s not “Western civilization” that hangs in the balance.