On Ukraine, let's follow the money

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne carry military equipment as they take part in a exercise outside the operating base at the Arlamow Airport on , 2022 in Wola Korzeniecka, Poland. The U.S., in response to the Russian military buildup and subsequent invasion of Ukraine and in concert with other NATO member states deploying additional troops across eastern European countries, has sent thousands of troops to Poland, where they have set up bases at Rzeszow and at two small airfields, both not far from Poland's border to Ukraine. Meanwhile fighting between the Russian military and Ukrainian armed forces is raging across Ukraine. Omar Marques/Getty Images

Walk a few blocks in Manhattan, where I live, and you'll find many reminders of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. People in West Village cafes talking about Vladimir Putin's "madness." A poster tacked to a deli window advertising a solidarity march in Times Square. A hashtag on the local barista's iPad, right below the option to add a tip, that reads: #WeStandWithUkraine. And that's on top of the condemnations online and on television, the boycotts and the declamatory emails from universities, banks and corporations. 

Americans, in short, are angry. The public mood is more galvanized by political injustice than at any time since … well, since the last tweetable furor gripped the nation.