At least there is a confession hidden in the joke. First, the US is a merchant of death, with the comparison made between the sell of arms and alcoholism. Second, that there is an uncomfortable relationship shared between the US and Ukraine as when they are alone together they share an over-familiar glance. Last, the affair is sucidial; insofaras, Ukraine, in its adocity to lift Russia from its seat and shatter it, will destroy itself as well as the US.