And it’s true every year. The process is in motion. This year it’s closer than last year. Heating in multiple dwellings and water mains broke down during the winter, with nobody to fix it. Firemen are shorthanded for the fires in the multiple dwellings. Annual flooding remained untended during the spring, and one town that built their own makeshift dam to hold back the river was penalized for failing to get a work permit for said dam. Now forest fires abound. Smoke jumpers are either in Ukraine or fled to Uzbekistan and elsewhere to avoid going to Ukraine. Naturally, it’s Jihad time in Dagestan. When the cat’s tangled up in a ball of yarn, the feral rats will slay. And let’s not forget Prigorzin’s mutiny.
This is real life history, which unfolds at its own pace, not a sitcom where everything gets resolved in a half an hour.