When the going gets tough for politicians, the politicians do what they do best: Declare success smack in the face of a resounding defeat.
Today, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk resigned, accusing the president’s party of plunging the war-scarred and recession-ravaged country into an “artificially created crisis”.
In response, US vice-president Joseph Biden’s office congratulated the Ukrainian government for a job well done.
In a surreal story difficult for even The Onion to make up, please consider Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk Resigns.
Ukraine’s prime minister tendered his resignation late on Sunday afternoon, accusing the president’s party of plunging the war-scarred and recession-ravaged country into an “artificially created” crisis.
“The country’s political crisis was unleashed artificially . . . the desire to change one person blinded politicians and paralysed their will for real change,” Mr Yatseniuk said on Sunday, adding that his formal resignation letter would be submitted to parliament on Tuesday.
In a statement, US vice-president Joseph Biden’s office said that, in a phone conversation with Mr Yatseniuk on Sunday, he: “congratulated the government of Ukraine on its accomplishments over the past two years, in particular on the strides it has made on difficult but necessary economic reforms, the signature of the European Union association agreement, and the work it has done to increase energy independence”.
In a Financial Times interview earlier this year, Mr Yatseniuk complained of being “stabbed in the back” after he faced relentless criticism from presidential MPs over unpopular austerity measures that were parts of a $40bn international lifeline from the International Monetary Fund and other global institutions. Efforts to shift blame for the raising of utility tariffs, for example, on to his political grouping had dented his popularity, fuelled political infighting and derailed the IMF-led programme.
Without directly naming Mr Poroshenko’s party and other increasingly hostile political groups ushered into power following the 2014 pro-EU “Maidan” revolution, he said: “Authors of the crisis themselves fell hostage to the situation along with all of us — the government, society and the country.”
Well Done!
Yes indeed, that is quite the job well done. This accomplishment is just one in an extremely long list of Obama administration accomplishments. Unfortunately, I can only remember one (a deal with Iran that I agree with but most don’t).
I need to ask Biden to refresh my memory.
Meanwhile, a quick perusal of my own blog turns up another recent success that I somehow forget about.
For details, please consider Ukraine About to Break Apart! Transcarpathia Region “Demands” Autonomy From Kiev.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Biden probably has no clue what is actually going on there, but as a good politician he knows it never hurts to declare a job well done. Unless he is talking to people who actually do have a clue, that is. But they already know Joe is an idiot.
Oh, he knows. His son spearheaded a group that locked down all the natural gas fracking rights that would have netted them near total monopoly had not the Ukrainian civil war occurred.
Biden/Quayle ’16! Bipartisan crazy-Veep coalition!
Even modern medicine can;t cure Biden’s “Foot-In-Mouth” disease. No hope with a dope.
The USA intervention in the internal affairs in Ukraine was the single most destabilizing policy in the world during the last years …
“…Joseph Biden’s office said that, in a phone conversation with Mr Yatseniuk on Sunday, he: “congratulated the government of Ukraine on its accomplishments…”
Biden isn’t fooling anyone and he knows it. But he probably is relieved that it turned out this way. Just think where Biden’s son would be if he really had managed to purchase and develop Ukraine’s shale reserves.
Hold still little Russian fishy. All I’m going to do is gut you.
When a president sends troops to the poor areas of the Ukraine and basically captures young men to serve in the military unless they can come up with one thousand bucks, how can one serve under that regime. The president basically got his ass handed to him fighting Donbass and several other Eastern Ukraine regions. Still he wants to engage them even though he signed the peace accord.
We again meddled where we did not belong and again destabilized a country that was not our enemy. The population wanted to join the Eastern alliance and the EU threw a fit but could do nothing about it so the USA did most of the dirty work. Many state here and on other sites how the EU is the USA pawn but I wonder.
Complicity would be a better word than pawn. With pawn one is to blame and the other is victim, and so just as in politics you get to align with one instead of the other. It keeps people busy trying to make sure they support the right face to it all, when in practice they are falling time and again for the same deception.
Lucky Joe. Voters have short memory:
Long overdue.
Holodomor that goes around comes around. Russians may need fifty years to understand. It’s long, and it’s hard, but they’ll get it in the end.
Before you comment about Holodomor you should read some interesting things first and then you can write who will get visit form karma;)
Who Organised the Famine in the USSR in 1932-1933?
http://orientalreview.org/2012/12/17/episodes-10-who-organised-famine-in-the-ussr-in-1932-1933/
Before you comment about Holodomor you should read some interesting things and then you can write who will first get visit form karma;)
Who Organised the Famine in the USSR in 1932-1933?
http://orientalreview.org/2012/12/17/episodes-10-who-organised-famine-in-the-ussr-in-1932-1933/
“IMF-led programme.”
There you go. Christine Lagarde.
“The country’s political crisis was unleashed artificially . . ”
It is all artificial. Politics had been phony from the beginning.
Biden’s cokehead, navy-reject son is a big shot in Ukraine oil management… of course Biden knows what is going on… Ukraine is USA sandbox. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27403003
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