The numbers are all over the place. CNN puts the earthquake death toll at 9000. USA Today has it at 15000, while the LA Times has published an article that says 16000 people have perished in the earthquakes. In a way, the numbers don’t matter anymore.
The people in that region have suffered a terrible event. They’re stunned, their lives have been turned upside down. They need the most basic of things. It has to be a shock to everyone’s system.
Vladimir Putin probably won’t even notice. Or maybe, in a moment of irony and calculation, he will send relief to the region.
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