Just a matter of time before Russia subjugates Ukraine.  Better than Vladimir Putin getting desperate and initiating nuclear warfare.  As President Joe Biden's State of the Union address underscored, though, is that the Free World is united against what Putin is doing.  Russia will run Ukraine for many years to come, but will nevertheless suffer for a longer time as a universal pariah. Biden didn't quite go that far, but what he said about this pandemic is sufficient to interpret that it is over and we should return to a new normal.  It has been two full years, the worst experienced by anyone alive.  The previous, the Spanish Flu, a century ago, might have killed a lot more people, 50 million versus 6 million for COVID-19, but did swiftly disappear without a vaccine.  The other worst of its kind was almost two millennia ago, The  Black Death  of 1346-1353, bubonic plague, caused by a flea, said to have killed off 30%-50% the population of Europe.  Then again, a  recent study su