Oh, my mistake, I thought it was the Russian government that was to blame, but now that I read this very respectable paper from these three amigo heroes, I see it is the fault of western women, for Russia's low birth rate.
If I want belly laughs, I watch Big Bang Theory or South Park. Konstantin is just gently ironic and sometimes slightly funny in combination with the Russian accent and flubbed English. But he does have insights into the inner workings of Russian society and state that he’s uniquely qualified for.
Shell shock? From rockets? We haven’t had a rocket in Nahariya in weeks, and when we did, I just made myself numb and did all I could do to cheer up my fellow inmates in the shelter for the duration of our ten minutes in each others’ company. One fragment of a rocket did fall down and explode across the street from us on top of the grocery store. Turned the roof black. Didn’t even elevate my heart rate. My wife went south for three weeks to our son in Haifa because she gets anxiety attacks. But “shell shocked”? Mois?