Two Shocking Headlines

Entire Ukraine government resigns

This is nothing but an internal shuffling of personnel within the ruling party, perhaps timed to deflect blame for the story linked below.

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Ukraine signs $1bn gas deal with mystery [con-artist] Spanish executive

The headline suggests stupidity, but I suspect evil. In other words, I suspect the Ukrainian politicians and bureaucrats who were supposedly conned were actually in on the fraud, personally benefiting from it.