Foreign Affairs

That was an entirely different ball of wax that I didn’t even want to get into. But bursting water lines resulting from systems that are multiple-decades old with next to no maintenance*. This has happened in several places and not just caused people to have no water, but frozen lakes inside buildings and no heat because the heating system used water.
Then there’s a major damn failure resulting in countless homes being destroyed…and the government’s emergency management ministry is nowhere in sight.

And those are just the latest examples that immediately come to mind.

*Lack of regularly scheduled maintenance seems to be a theme in Russia. Whether it’s in the civilian sector or the military, shit is falling apart as a result. I wonder how much of this is the result of umm…something uniquely Russian…versus corruption and skimming money by Putin’s pals doesn’t help.