He is worried for his parents, who live in Mykolaiv, a port city on the Black Sea where Abramenko was raised. It sits between the occupied city of Kherson and Odessa, expected to be a key target of the Russians.

Like any common or garden racist would seek to do to someone he or she deems as different, or lesser.

he would have an opportunity of taking a few more swigs before he went down

particular one of those predicates (being-masculine, being- American, e.g.) exposes a relation between a real being and an empty totality, a nonthing, or nothing that renders this real being a whateverness.