Psssssssssst! Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigns

[malaise]

Last edited Thu Jul 24, 2014, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/ukrainian-prime-minister-arseny-yatseniuk-resigns
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Shaun Walker in Donetsk
The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 19.36 BST

Arseny Yatseniuk's impassioned speech underlined the frustration of many in Ukraine that change is taking too long. Photograph: Andrew Kravchenko/Government press service/EPA

Ukraine's prime minister has resigned after the governing coalition collapsed, in a sign that five months after the Maidan protests led to a change of government, the country's political system is still beset by discord.

The government is struggling to defeat an insurgency by pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, where a Malaysia Airlines jet was downed last Thursday.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk, one of the leaders of the Maidan protests, was seen by many Ukrainians as a safe pair of hands, with his mild manner and intellectual demeanour. But he grew angry during Ukraine's parliamentary session as it failed to pass legislation to increase army financing and regulate the country's energy situation.

"History will not forgive us," he told parliament. "Our government now has no answer to the questions – how are we to pay wages, how are we tomorrow morning going to send fuel for armoured vehicles, how will we pay those families who have lost soldiers, to look after the army?"

[brooklynite]

1. Y'know, I think they call it....Democracy

I believe in a Parliamentary system, when the Party in power no longer can reliably pass legislation, they dissolve the Parliament and let the voters pick new leaders.

[joshcryer]

3. Actually, he would be compelled to form a new coalition.

His resigning prevents him from having to do so.

This has the added benefit of new elections in 60 days.

[delrem]

2. Victoria Nuland's very own Yats?

Not going fast and far enough for him?

[joshcryer]

5. This destroys the Party of Regions and the Communists.

So it's a strategic move.

Though I'm sure if he thought they could get the bills through he would have not resigned, but since not, this is phase 2. New elections, as they have been calling for from day 1.

[delrem]

7. Well, you seem to be in total control there, josh.

Good to hear the news from such a strategic insider.

[dipsydoodle]

9. Wasnt the Communist party banned yesterday ?

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[delrem]

10. Well, you know how US sanctified elections go after these right-wing coups.

tweedledum vs tweedledee, kinda like the US model.

[joshcryer]

11. No it was disbanded because it lost its faction.

They're trying to ban it though. Such attempts have been unsuccessful in the past. If the courts want to ban it because some of its members are neo-Stalinists or whatever who support Russia then that would look bad on them. So I don't see it happening.

[sabrina 1]

6. Yep, this is 'our guy, Yats'. Lol, what a horrible tragedy it all is. We are always backing

the wrong people, well those willing to be puppets. Dictators etc. We think we can rule the world. Look at Libya, I remember all the stories about NATO only wanting 'to protect civilians'. What a crock THAT was. Civilians are still being slaughtered there, but there is a SILENCE now on Libya, we got control of the oil, then left the civilians to their tragic fates after we completely destroyed their country.

And Iraq, it is falling apart, no, it HAS fallen apart, we destroyed those two nations, took what we wanted and left.

Now Ukraine, same thing, we wanted to enslave them to the IMF. Yats deserves everything that's happening to him right now. He was willing to hand over his country to the IMF. I guess they let him down. What did he think, that a few billion from the IMF would come with no strings attached? Did he not know the history of the IMF?

Since the Orange Revolution this is how things have been in Ukraine. Corruption has been rampant. The 'heroes' of the Orange Revolution all turned out to be failures in one way or another.

We tend to get all excited about each new 'US Country of Interest, we create 'heroes', then we leave, like Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan, and don't look back.

But the world does, and Yats should have before he made deals with people like Nuland wife of a neocon, disaster capitalist.

And now the West of Ukr is having their own protests, mothers want their sons home from the military fighting.

This is not what they bargained for.


But they should have, they were dealing with the same people who backed the Iraq War Crime.

Not surpirsed, I just thought it would take longer.

[betterdemsonly]

4. Wonder if there is some bad news on the way?

Obama has been awful reluctant to pin Putin and the neocons that tell Chris Matthews what for have been screemin mad about it. Hollande and Merkel can't afford to lose Russian oil and Natural gas.

[malaise]

8. You know this man seem tangential

but I want to know what Putin knows about Ft MH370 not MH17.