On top of this endorsement of irony, Berlant also theorized a post-irony characterized by meaningful sincerity, allowing us to patch or bridge the affective conflicts of public life that can’t be resolved through ironic detachment.

But in some quarters, a certain sense of detachment pervaded over this faraway political earthquake.

A senior Ukrainian official told the New York Times that around 5,000 elite North Korean troops were set to have joined the Russian detachment in the border region by Monday.

The US also kept a small detachment of special forces in the country, but Déby asked for their departure in the run-up to May’s election.

"From my perspective, you want to make sure every single person having a placental detachment at 18 weeks gets an abortion so they don't die," Greene said.