Understood now — you are speaking of the Russian Oligarchs Putin pushed out. I thought a few posts back that you were postulating that a group of Oligarchs in Russia (and they certainly still have plenty of Oligarchs there too) were trying to take down Putin. Either way, if I was one of these people I’d be very careful of what I was ingesting, etc.
As for Arseniy Yatsenyuk, he said from the beginning that he was on a political suicide mission and did not expect to be in power long. He’s young - I’d give 2:1 odds he’ll be back in a high position, someday.
Also... I think you underestimate Maidan. For now, with a shooting war in the East, Poroshenko has a degree of popular support so long as the war doesn’t go badly. But if Poro mis-steps or oversteps or mismanages badly, esp. once the war is over, I think Maidan will eventually rise back up and toss him out too.
~Also... I think you underestimate Maidan. For now, with a shooting war in the East, Poroshenko has a degree of popular support so long as the war doesn’t go badly. But if Poro mis-steps or oversteps or mismanages badly, esp. once the war is over, I think Maidan will eventually rise back up and toss him out too.~
The biggest problem for Poroshenko is that European political orientation and anti-Russian stance of Ukraine since the coup has ruined a national economy and there is no, absolutely no viable option to recover short to middle term.
All Ukrainian businesses are shaped to sell in Russia and to make things worse, the heart of their industry is southeast which is burning right now.
The rest of Ukraine is oxacart and only producing politicians.
Poroshenko would use every opportunity to keep the war going in order to distract people but their patience won’t last forever.