– Ukraine Politics As Usual: “Pot-Bellied Fatty” Shevchenko KOs Deputy Speaker – Caught On Tape (ZeroHedge, Aug 14, 2014):
It appears Ukraine’s Radical Party leader Oleh Lyashko is a glutton for punishment. In 2011, as Reuters reports, he was throttled and pushed to the ground by former Vice-Speaker Adam Martinyuk after he accused him of hypocrisy; and on a separate occasion Martinyuk threw a glass of water in his face. However, this morning, it got serious after he accused Independent Party Deputy Oleksandr Shevchenko of being a “pot-bellied fatty,” who “instead of going to the Donbass and helping our guys, people like him go to parliament and raise their hands.” Shevchenko’s response – solid right cross to Lyashko’s jaw, sending the smaller man staggering. One can’t help but wonder how this approach to settling political scores would go down in Washington…
Forward to the 2:00 mark for the fun-and-games to really begin…