Ukraine's Prime Minister resigns; Ukraine's Revolution fails

The Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution has failed.
That's a bold statement for me to make, so to back up the statement I need to go back to the primary reason for the Euromaidan Revolution.

The spark that lit the Ukrainian revolution was Yanukovych’s rejection of a trade pact with the European Union, yet the reason for the revolution was the population’s despair with the most omnipresent, all-encompassing and brutal system of corruption ever established on this planet.

Forget Putin's propaganda about a "coup". A coup generally involves the military. This was a revolution.
However, for a revolution to succeed it must accomplish its goals, not just regime change. Because regime change can happen any 'ol time and mean absolutely nothing to the public.

Yesterday Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk resigned while sending out cryptic tweets.
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Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, the prime minister of Ukraine, announced his resignation on Sunday in a surprise move that opened a new period of political uncertainty here.
Mr. Yatsenyuk, an economist and politician backed by Ukraine’s Western allies, including the United States, came to power two years ago behind the wave of popular anger that culminated with the Maidan street protests, which led to the downfall of President Viktor F. Yanukovych. Mr. Yatsenyuk and Petro O. Poroshenko, who became president, emerged as the nation’s most prominent figures.
But the revolution’s leaders soon turned on each other. Although authority is supposed to be balanced evenly between the president and the prime minister, Ukraine’s Western allies eventually sided with Mr. Poroshenko and pushed Mr. Yatsenyuk to step aside.

OK. So our guy won the power struggle. That's a victory, right?
No.
What happened is that the most corrupt and hated guy won.

Two years after the revolution that toppled Ukraine’s pro-Russia president Viktor Yanukovich, dozens of demonstrators were burning tyres outside Kiev’s presidential building again on Friday, amid scuffles with riot police.
“We want him to come out here and talk to us, to look him in the eyes and ask: what is going on in our country?” said Serhiy Koba, a protest leader — referring not to Mr Yanukovich, but to his successor: pro-western president Petro Poroshenko.
The street protest capped a bad week for Mr Poroshenko. It began with disclosures in the Panama Papers that he had set up an offshore holding company to move his confectionery business — a pillar of his billion-dollar fortune — to the British Virgin Islands.

Yes, the guy implicated in the Panama Papers scandal and the 20% approval is the guy we backed. Hurrah?
Recently Yatsenyuk lost a political ally to a Swiss money laundering scandal.

Mr Poroshenko’s image was dealt another blow last month even as he allowed another presidential loyalist to be removed as Ukraine’s general prosecutor. The US had openly urged Mr Poroshenko to sack Viktor Shokin, who had failed to prosecute a single member of the Yanukovich regime or the post-revolutionary elite.

Back in February, Ukraine's economic minister resigned under equally damning circumstances.

Speaking in Kiev, Aivaras Abromavicius said he had no desire “to serve as a cover-up for covert corruption, or become puppets for those who, very much like the old government, are trying to exercise control over the flow of public funds”.

Ukraine was ranked 130th out of 167 nations in the Corruption Perceptions Index.
Even the pro-Maidan Revolution NY Times has posted the headline: The West Is Enabling Graft in Ukraine.
Both the IMF and Washington are withholding loans from Ukraine until it implements anti-corruption reforms. This is a huge problem because Ukraine's currency is near collapse.

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detroitmechworks's picture

Is a blueprint for our eventual collapse. Not the ethnic fallout, but rather the open running of the government by crooks.

Oh who the hell am I kidding, we already have open crooks running the government.

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Lookout's picture

Into the valley rode the 500... the charge of the light brigade. And killed in the Ukraine. It sits at the crossroads of Asia and Europe and has often been a place of conflict. So interesting (and sad) how geography shapes our destiny. And so history repeats itself.

Supporting the wrong people here and abroad seems to be a habit in the US.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Well, you coulda knocked me over with a feather....

Will we ever learn? I don't think so. Not until our empire is gone and our international standing is in ruins.

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snoopydawg's picture

Since 1996. He told Hillary and her pals that if he was put in power he would open the country up to outside corporations.
Biden's son who had no experience running a energy company was the VP of one of them.
Then there's nuland, wife of kagan who helped write the PNAC was put in charge of Ukraine by her highness herself, Hillary.
The CIA had a hand in the prime minister resigning.
You may not call it a coup, but many other people have.
And the US has armed the neo Nazis who took control and killed a lot of people.
Putin was blamed for what happened in Ukraine, but I don't think he was the bad guy in this. He had every right to defend Crimea because Russia has had a base there for decades.
And of course the US has bases in over 800 countries. Why they have to put up with them I haven't been able to find out.
Any other country have a chance to have a base inside the US?
:).
Silly American exceptionalism.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

jorogo's picture

Thanks for balancing the picture on Ukraine.

It's worth noting that implicit in bringing Ukraine under the influence of the EU (stated policy goals of both the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation and its financially-supported Clinton Foundation, and concurrent with Hillary's SOS term) would have been the presence of US-dominated NATO forces at Russia's border - a long-term goal of the neo-con cabal, and yet another interventionist policy, thankfully, gone awry. The fallout is, however, and as always, more misery and tragedy for the citizenry.

But when has that ever mattered to power brokers like peddle-to-the-meddle Hillary?

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GreyWolf's picture

;->

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jorogo's picture

Keep in mind that the stated

"primary reason for the Euromaidan Revolution"

is what has been stated by the Euromaidan Revolution. Thanks for the link; it's worth studying, but just one of multiple points of view from just one of many influential players.

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"If I sit silently, I have sinned." - Mossadegh