“Like all other large bodies, where there is a variety of different interests to reconcile, their deliberations are slow.“

George Washington, 1783

During the winter of 1783 Congress was dithering and the Continental Army was starving. A seditious letter was circulated at Newburgh and Washington made a speech, which included the line above, to quell the potential rebellion. He succeeded and that summer Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

Our government has always been slow and it has often been wrong but eventually it does the right thing. My point now is: if we don’t help Ukraine now with weapons, like the French helped us during the revolution, then we will soon be sending soldiers to Poland.

The photo is a combination of two interests: Inukshuk and Zelensky