On the night Vladimir Putin announced his special noninvasive operation, I did the only thing I could think to do: I called my dad. Papa Reytblat, born in the small Ukrainian town of Korosten just after the Great Patriotic War , had been proclaiming for months that a Russian invasion was impossible. "Vladimir Putin is a lot of things, but he’s not a schlemiel ," he had said in Russian with a shpritz of his native Yiddish.
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