Winters' Dis-Content. . .
( Winters' Dis-Content. . .) Made glorious summer by this son of York ? Doubtful. These are lines from Shakespear's Richard III, the last Plantagenet monarch and whose remains were recently discovered under a parking lot in Leichester, England. They since have been re-interred in Westminster. Today is the first day of Winter and considering how cold things are getting, the timing could not be better. Between wars, an impending refugee crisis, and endemic political infighting, there is a lot of dis-content to be had. One can begin in the Ukraine. With the New Year all but here, the Russo-Ukraine War will have been persisting for eleven months, with hundreds of thousands dead, economies destroyed, whole regions devastated. How things happen in war. Russian President Vladimir thought for a short war when hostilities commenced last February. The reason the war has lasted is because material support has been provided by the West. Russian forces have suffered significant attr...