Lev Golinkin: The toxic coddling of Poroshenko
For the few people out there who think that the resignation of Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will stop the ongoing slide in Ukraine toward political crisis, let’s clear something up: It won’t. In fact, the most likely outcome is that the country will continue on its trajectory toward chaos. The man at the center of Kiev’s problems, President Petro Poroshenko, still refuses to combat the endemic corruption that infuriates Ukrainians and strangles their economy. And thanks to the West, which continues to back him, Poroshenko is more deeply entrenched in power than ever before.