The Local Chornobaivka

My mother called me on the phone yesterday.

“A tornado is coming,” I told her. “We are sheltering in the basement. It’s moving towards the Amazon warehouse.”

“That Amazon warehouse is your local Chornobaivka,” my mother quipped calmly.

Chornobaivka is a place in Ukraine where Russians have gotten their military equipment routinely destroyed as they mass it in the exact same spot. It’s happened almost two dozen times so far.

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  1. Did you catch the news item that Russia’s parliament is now considering allowing people aged 40 years and older to sign up for military service?

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