Should My Family Flee Russia? Perhaps, Not.

My mother implied that she would only leave if ‘shit hit the fan’ — but what more was she waiting for?

Photo by Vlad Sargu on Unsplash

When the war started seven months ago, my Ukrainian wife and I were in Dubai and woke up at 6 A.M. to watch Putin’s announcement on CNN. When I told my wife, TV still on, that Putin thinks “Ukraine is not a country, and…