Nuland pick for Ukkraine‘Yats’ Is No Longer the Guy--he steps down.

[eridani]

Panama Papers connection?

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/11/yats-is-no-longer-the-guy/

Any reference to a “coup” was dismissed as “Russian propaganda.” There was a parallel determination in the U.S. media to discredit or ignore evidence that neo-Nazi militias had played an important role in ousting Yanukovych and in the subsequent suppression of anti-coup resistance in eastern and southern Ukraine. That opposition among ethnic-Russian Ukrainians simply became “Russian aggression.”

This refusal to notice what was actually a remarkable story – the willful unleashing of Nazi storm troopers on a European population for the first time since World War II – reached absurd levels as The New York Times and The Washington Post buried references to the neo-Nazis at the end of stories, almost as afterthoughts.

The Washington Post went to the extreme of rationalizing Swastikas and other Nazi symbols by quoting one militia commander as calling them “romantic” gestures by impressionable young men.

But today – more than two years after what U.S. and Ukrainian officials like to call “the Revolution of Dignity” – the U.S.-backed Ukrainian government is sinking into dysfunction, reliant on handouts from the IMF and Western governments.

[MattSh]

1. Yep, another Chalabi moment.

Chalabi, remember him? A refresher...

Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who from exile helped persuade the United States to invade Iraq in 2003, and then unsuccessfully tried to attain power as his country was nearly torn apart by sectarian violence, died on Tuesday at his home in Baghdad. He was 71.

Again the US latches on to the first people who claim they will be reformers and bet the bank on them. This was doomed to be a failure from the start, since the Four Stooges, Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk, Tyahnybok, and Klitchko, had never demonstrated a single reformist act ever.

As a side note, in 2012 the British press had numerous field days encouraging the Brits to not travel to Euro2012 (soccer tournament), co-hosted by Ukraine. Up to early 2014, I had never seen an actual Nazi or Nazi wannabe roaming the streets of Kiev. Since then, it's not difficult to find either kind, though the British and US press apparently went blind in the meantime.