Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now lasted longer than the disastrously unsuccessful war fought by Imperial Russia and Tsar Nicholas II from 1914-1917. By the numbers, World War I started on Jul. 28 1914 and ended on Nov. 11 1918, with hostilities lasting 1,567 days. By the time of the formal end of fighting, revolution had overthrown the Romanov regime and Red agents had shot dead Tsar Nicholas II and his family in a Yekaterinburg basement, because the new