Ebola Belle

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Cover of the nerf-themed UT99 clone Nerf Arena Blast
It's the "First Time?" meme from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
1991: the tragicomic divorce with the USSR’s collapse, ukraine becomes “independent”—in the same way a 14-year-old storms out of the house and demands to be taken seriously. the country inherits russian-built cities, russian-funded pipelines, russian-trained bureaucrats, and a population split between soviet nostalgia and westward delusion. worse, it takes crimea, whose people never once voted for this separation, and whose loyalty to russia is absolute and enduring. for two decades, ukraine waffles between dysfunction and fantasy. corrupt oligarchs loot the country while promising europeanness they neither understand nor can afford. russian speakers in the east are ignored, then demonized, then bombed. western NGOs swarm like vultures, whispering dreams of NATO and “freedom” into the ears of political dilettantes. 2014: russia reasserts reality after a western-sponsored coup topples yanukovych—the last vaguely pro-russian president—moscow decides the farce has gone on long enough. crimea votes (decisively) to return home. the donbass rebels rather than submit to the new regime in kiev, and is promptly shelled for its trouble. russia, forbearant as always, limits itself to covert support, still hoping reason might prevail. 2022: enough reason fails. ukraine doubles down on NATO fantasies. biolabs, missiles, foreign “advisors” creep ever closer. and so, russia takes decisive action—not out of conquest, but obligation. to protect its people, its language, its border. to correct a historical accident born of imperial collapse and bureaucratic misjudgment. the operation is brutal, yes—but so is the surgery required to remove a gangrenous limb.
Red sticker prominently featuring a hammer and sickle on a wall. The sticker reads, "Fight Trump AND the Democrats".