06-10-2020, 01:52 PM
We think we are nowhere near the end until something is decided. Consider the Battle of Petersburg in 1865... the Confederacy seemed to be holding on until it ran out of troops to hold a defensive perimeter guarding Richmond... in a 292-day siege. Yes, there had been plenty of war in Virginia, but the Confederacy always seemed to slip out of a trap. This time the trap sprang upon the Army of Northern Virginia and Robert E. Lee. The decisive, definitive Union victory came swiftly
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.