What a surreal experience. I was…

What a surreal experience. I was just watching the Edward Snowden movie (2016) on Amazon prime, right at the moment he escapes from Hong Kong to Moscow, a push notification popped up on my phone: Assad and his family had also just escaped to Moscow.
I know the two events aren't related at all, but experiencing them simultaneously made the movie feel incredibly real and heightened the sense of global intrigue.

In an age of shifting sands, one truth remains absolute:
Moscow times marches relentlessly towards zero.