We didn't take much notice here but a bleak milestone was passed in Europe a couple of weeks ago. On January 11, in terms of time, Russia's war on Ukraine caught up with the country's battle against Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945. Three years, 10 months and 17 days. Of course the scale was much greater in World War II. Frontlines extending thousands of kilometres, millions of casualties, atrocities beyond the darkest imagination, unparalleled destruction. In this war, Russia assumed Ukraine would be a walkover. It's a bloody stalemate almost four years after it began. Another milestone was also...