Posted on 11/22/2014 6:28:59 PM PST by Bettyprob
MOSCOW — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Kiev on Friday condemned Russia for its “unacceptable” military intervention in Ukraine, while exhorting Ukraine’s newly elected government to complete its democratic and anticorruption reforms.
During a joint news conference, Mr. Biden urged Ukraine’s president, Petro O. Poroshenko, to form a new government “in days, not weeks,” and to champion economic reforms, promote further economic integration with the West and root out what Mr. Biden called “the cancer of corruption.”
“Even if the guns in the east fell silent tomorrow, Ukraine would still face a struggle for its democratic and economic future here in Kiev,” Mr. Biden said on the first anniversary of the beginning of public protests that led to the former government’s ouster in February. “There is a lot of work to do in Kiev.”
One year after the Maidan, as the popular revolution is called in the country, Ukraine is mired in economic and military crises. Amid soaring inflation and capital flight, the $17 billion in loans promised to Ukraine by the International Monetary Fund “appears insufficient to close the external financing gap,” Timothy Ash, head of emerging-market research at Standard Bank, said in an investor’s note on Thursday.
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Biden is correct on all points. If he were president we wouldn’t be in this mess. Obama has likely ignored all of his advice. The sooner biden moves up the safer we will be.
Irony. Bendover biden lectures Ukraine.
The NYT uses Plugs' full name - like, even the Junior! Wow! Things must be SERIOUS!
Putin farts in Biden’s general direction.
Biden is to logic and reason as Ebola is to Penicillin. If the man was a bigger joke on humanity he would have his own zip code. Even the Obamanation doesn't take him seriously.
Biden can be right or wrong but the world takes him no more seriously then Kerry or Obama . They either laugh or just ignore. Not good, really, but elections have consequences.
“intervention”
seriously?
Damn right its unacceptable.
Biden’s kid might lose his lucrative energy contracts in Ukraine.
What’s the big deal Biden? The Russians are merely illegal immigrants.
The Russians have as much right to be in Ukraine as the Mexican illegals have to be in America. /s
Biden should tell the President of Ukraine to do what Oslobo did. Just issue an executive order declaring amnesty the problem is solved. /s
I’ll forgive Putin his laugh at this pathetic statement.
Evey tyrants can spot good humor.
What about our intervention in Syria? Iraq? Libya? Egypt? Yemen? Somalia? Sudan?
Oh, that’s right, we can invade and overthrow any country we want
“Putin farts in Biden’s general direction.”
No, he saves that for more important people.
One thing nobody wants is to be assailed by Joe Biden. Putin is shuddering at the thought.
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