The only question is why the journalist wasn’t professional enough to write that the family “claimed” they were just trying to collect seashells, instead of assuming that their claim was correct.
It really means nothing. We have lots of contingency plans drawn up to do lots of these we never will. So do all major countries. It is the job of responsible people to consider unlikely possibilities and draw up plans for them that sit on a shelf somewhere just in case.
Readers are extremely confident that all the key facts are in the story. They have no hesitation in assuming the conclusion the writer wants the reader to make is the correct one. They can’t even conceive they could be wrong in their assumption, that any important facts could be missing.
You say the Ruble is circling the drain but it is close to what it was now when the war began.
You mock other countries for crushing debt but USA has a debt to GDP ratio 5 times worse than Russias.
And according to the IMF, Russia’s economy is now growing faster than every advanced economy in the world. But you say just give it time and they will die. We are dying faster
One of my favorite things to do is to call CE dating the “CHRISTIAN ERA”. they normally call this common era, but if you call it Christian era their faces will turn red, they will get mad, and their blood pressure will go haywire. It’s great.