{"id":19766,"date":"2016-04-11T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19766"},"modified":"2016-04-11T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:24:33","slug":"lies-of-the-beholder-biden-congratulates-ukraine-for-success-as-prime-minister-resigns-over-artificially-created-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19766","title":{"rendered":"Lies of the Beholder: Biden Congratulates Ukraine for \u201cSuccess\u201d as Prime Minister Resigns Over \u201cArtificially Created\u201d Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lies of the Beholder: Biden Congratulates Ukraine for \u201cSuccess\u201d as Prime Minister Resigns Over \u201cArtificially Created\u201d\u00a0Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n

When the going gets tough for politicians, the politicians do what they do best: Declare success smack in the face of a resounding defeat.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Today, Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk resigned, accusing the president\u2019s party of plunging the war-scarred and recession-ravaged country into an \u201cartificially created crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response, US vice-president Joseph Biden\u2019s office congratulated the Ukrainian government for a job well done.<\/p>\n

In a surreal story difficult for even\u00a0The Onion<\/em>\u00a0to make up, please consider\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk Resigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s prime minister tendered his resignation late on Sunday afternoon, accusing the president\u2019s party of plunging the war-scarred and recession-ravaged country into an \u201cartificially created\u201d crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe country\u2019s political crisis was unleashed artificially\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009the desire to change one person blinded politicians and paralysed their will for real change,\u201d Mr Yatseniuk said on Sunday, adding that his formal resignation letter would be submitted to parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a statement, US vice-president Joseph Biden\u2019s office said that, in a phone conversation with Mr Yatseniuk on Sunday, he: \u201ccongratulated 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\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0Financial Times interview<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year, Mr Yatseniuk complained of being \u201cstabbed in the back\u201d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lies of the Beholder: Biden Congratulates Ukraine for \u201cSuccess\u201d as Prime Minister Resigns Over \u201cArtificially Created\u201d\u00a0Crisis 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\u2019s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk resigned, accusing the president\u2019s party of plunging the war-scarred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4139,1320,2864,7550,13390,655,10330,821],"class_list":["post-19766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arseniy-yatsenuk","tag-joe-biden","tag-lies","tag-mike-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-propaganda","tag-success","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19767,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/19767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}