Ukraine is a mess right now. The past two weeks have seen violent street protests and dozens of deaths at the hands of local police and government troops.



The unrest has to do with citizens being upset with their country's President Viktor Yanukovych over what they saw as a series of power grabs indicative of endemic corruption.

Among Yanukovych's many other shady stunts included jailing ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko after she lost the Presidential election to Yanukovych in 2010. She was only released after Yanukovych fled his Presidential estate in Kiev.

Based on the events, there's a good chance that Tymoshenko will run for President again once the country holds special elections in May this year.

Here's where it gets interesting. Edward Lucas, a British journalist who also claims to be an expert in all things Russia, says Tymoshenko can't be trusted with power because she's only using her sexy angel-face to lure the Ukraine into a false sense of security:
I have interviewed her many times. Her body language, eyes, coquettish tosses of the head and cooing tones are almost hypnotic. But she is also capable of explosive anger. I have seen her shriek and curse in terrifying eruptions of rage: the kitten turns into a tigress.

Many foreign leaders have been smitten by her. Georgia's mercurial former President Mikheil Saakashvili was said to have been charmed by her during a helicopter ride which attracted lurid speculation.

Her blonde hair became legendary. Her appearance seemed to be designed to evoke the image of a fairytale princess in Ukrainian folklore. In 2005, she was appointed Prime Minister.
This has to be the most sexist thing we've read all day. Since when did a woman's hairstyle have anything to do with her ability to run a country?!

The only thing that's being established here is that Lucas clearly thinks that Tymoshenko is pretty, but her ambition somehow automatically makes a threat to mankind.