The crowd at Kiev’s Independence Square is giving its approval to the interim government that puts America’s preferred candidate in the office of Prime Minister.  Arseniy Yatsenyuk is warning that the new government is prepared to take drastic and painful measures to stabilize an economy that is teetering near bankruptcy.

“We are to undertake extremely unpopular steps as the previous government and previous president were so corrupted that the country is in a desperate financial plight,” Yatsenyuk said, adding “We are on the brink of a disaster and this is the government of political suiciders!  So welcome to hell.”

Yikes.

Yatsenyuk is a 39-year-old economist from a family of academics, and former head of the National Bank of Ukraine. 

Parliament is expected to approve the new government when Thursday rolls around to Ukraine. 

One nomination is raising eyebrows.  Andriy Parubiy was named candidate for secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.  Paruby co-founded the fascist Social-National Party in 1991, and then maneuvered towards the center-right.  But in 2010, Parubiy asked the European Parliament to reconsider its negative reaction to then-President Victor Yushchenko's decision to award nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera the title of Hero of Ukraine. 

Also, some of the Maidan protesters called for overt fascist-racist Dmytro Yarosh of the Right Sector to be given a cabinet post – although it seems highly unlikely that the busloads of US and EU consultants who've arrived in Kiev will support that.  And the new government realizes it’s under the world’s magnifying glass.