[Zzlist-deux] Imperialism's Trusted Governess

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Imperialism's Trusted Governess
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Her face is on the cover of *Bloomberg Businessweek* (3/9-3/15/2015) next
to a dramatic headline: *Putin vs. the Accountant*. Her name is Natalie
Jaresko. And, if Bloomberg's Brett Forrest is to be believed, she and some
of her colleagues may hold the fate of Western Ukraine in their hands. As
the Minister of Finance, she must find a way to salvage an economy that is
in free fall.
 Forrest paints a flattering, sympathetic picture of a feisty expatriate
determined to rescue Ukraine economically and from the clutches of the evil
Putin. Jaresko is encountered visiting hospitalized Ukrainian troops
wounded while attacking the resistance fighters in Eastern Ukraine or, as
Forrest prefers: consoling “convalescing veterans of recent battles against
Russian forces and their proxies in the Ukrainian East. 'When did you
serve?' she asks, moving slowly from room to room.'How were you wounded?'”
 Apart from recounting Jaresko's mimicking of the obsequious and
opportunistic condescension of veterans displayed universally by Western
politicians, Forrest offers a calculated adulation of the Minister that
conjures many less laudatory questions and suspicions....
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