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[healingmirth]

In my continuing adventures of ignoring real world issues (not that I think this is a serious issue) in favor of fic, I present:



original wall street journal article
commentary article

Because, seriously, I saw this and my first thought was, "what fandom do I want to write country-falling-apart-fic about." Although I'd totally move the borders around. The diplomatic possibilities are fun, though. Apparently there are also American theories of how this'd go down, and now I'm going to have to look those up to see if I agree with the borders. /shame