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Ukraine is the Paris Hilton of countries… anytime it's in the news, it's not for

anything good.

For the last few decades, Ukraine has been the

scene of the worst nuclear catastrophe, a military conflict with Russia and the biggest

corruption scandals you can imagine.

But… look, there is another thing Ukrainian politicians have in common with Paris Hilton:

they both have a lot of money.

After the fall of the

Soviet Union, Ukraine's economy stopped being managed by the state and started being

managed by the state's friends.

These are the so called

oligarchs and you can find them in all of the country's political parties, pro Russian

and anti Russian alike.

For example, the current

president, PETRO POROSHENKO is also known as the 'King of Chocolate' because he

owns the biggest chocolate company in the country.

And the

former president, YULIA TIMISHENKO is known as the 'Gas Princess' because she made

a lot of money in the gas industry.

In other words: things

changed, but everything stayed the same.

Nonetheless, things are really starting to change in Ukraine.

But, make no mistake; these changes are not for the better.

In fact, the opposite

is true.

You see, in a previous video, we told you how Russia is Europe's main gas provider.

For example, Germany buys 60% of their natural gas from

Russian companies like GAZPROM or ROSNEFT.

And how does this gas arrive?

Well…

most of it comes from gas pipes that cross Ukrainian soil.

So what does this all mean?

It means that, despite Ukraine having little gas resources, they are still a hot spot in

this business.

And this… is

when Vladimir Putin comes into the picture!

To this day, Putin needs Ukraine to supply Europe with gas.

But, as you know, the relationship between Putin and Kiev currently has a status of

'it's complicated', to say the least.

So after decades of love and Slavic fraternity, the Government of Ukrainian president Poroshenko

wants to

stay away from Putin as much as possible.

As you can imagine, this political divorce doesn't make Russia happy.

Anytime their gas goes through Ukrainian territory, they have to pay a

millionaire's share of alimony to their ex wife.

But this is not the end of the story!

As long as Ukraine is in the center of the gas routes,

Kiev will have a better position to negotiate with Moscow and even Brussels.

In other words: Ukraine matters as long as we need them for gas.

So what's Putin's strategy, then?

Well, check this out.

Russians Insist On New Pipeline To Bypass Ukraine, And Europeans Fine With It

Yes, my dear viewers, Russia wants to take Ukraine out of the gas route equation.

This way, Ukraine would lose their strategic value, which

would mean that neither America, nor the European Union would really care about them in the

case of a potential new Russian invasion.

So the question now is…

Can this strategy work?

Will the European Union let Russia bypass Ukraine?

Today we're going to answer all of these

questions but, before we do, let's take a look back at the history.

IF YOU ARE NOT MINE, THEN YOU WILL NOT BE ANYBODY ELSE'S

In the year 2000, 70% of the Russian gas arriving to Europe came from Ukraine.

More specifically, it came from the so called BROTHERHOOD gas

pipe.

This pipeline was built in the times of the Soviet Union and it become more important

as the demand for Russian gas grew.

The other 30%

came from the YAMAL pipe, in Belarus, but that's another story.

When the Soviet Union fell apart, Ukraine became an independent nation.

And this was the moment when the Kiev politicians started to see the

business clearly.

"Russia has the gas reserves but they need us to sell to the Germans so… they should

pay us a fare."

Nowadays, this fare is more than 2 billion dollars a year, but it used to be even higher.

Thanks to the so called TRANSIT RIGHTS, the State

owned gas company in Ukraine, NAFTOGAZ, became a behemoth: all of this, despite having almost

no gas resources in the country.

As you can imagine, this isn't just about economics here.

Both in Russia and Ukraine, everything is a political weapon.

So anytime Kiev had a

Russian friendly government, GAZPROM sold them cheap gas.

But when Kiev didn't have Russian friendly politicians in office, prices went sky

high.

We already discussed this in another video, the first one in this series on Russian Gas.

The gas negotiations between Russia and Ukraine led to

a supply cut in 2006 and 2009.

The last one, in 2009, caused the rest of Europe to go without gas too.

And this was when Russia started a new strategy.

Putin phoned his friend, the former German chancellor and current ROSNEFT president,

GERHARD

SCHROEDER.

And GERHARD SCHROEDER phoned the current German chancellor, ANGELA MERKEL.

This is how they sold the first project to bypass Ukraine:

the NORD STREAM 1 pipeline.

This pipeline goes through the Baltic sea, straight from Russia to Germany.

One year later, in 2010, YANUKOVICH won the Ukrainian presidency.

YANUKOVICH is a Pro Russian politician.

So the good times and the cheap gas

prices came back.

But in 2014, we had the EUROMAIDAN.

Do you remember those protests in Kiev?

This took YANUKOVICH out of office and brought a

brand new anti Russian government to Ukraine.

And this is when Putin said "If I can't have you, nobody can."

Since 2015, GAZPROM, Russia's main gas company, started the ultimate plan to bypass Ukraine.

For one, they started the NORDSTREAM 2, through the

Baltic.

And on the Southern side, Gazprom is building the TURKSTREAM, that sends gas through the

BLACK SEA as far as Turkey.

According to the

GAZPROM president, by the year 2020, that good old Brotherhood pipeline will carry less

than 10% of what it used to.

But hold on just a second!

Because, so far, it seems like Russia is just plain bad and Ukraine is a poor victim, right?

In fact, things are far

more complicated.

Let's dig deeper into this, shall we?

THE UKRAINIAN JUGGERNAUT Naftogaz is far more than a gas company.

In fact, it's sort of a job agency!

They have more than 175,000 workers.

Yes, you heard that right.

To

put that into perspective, the equivalent of Naftogaz in Poland, PGNIG, which is also

owned by the state, only employs 25,000 people.

In other words, in Ukraine, you're nobody if you don't have a relative working for

Naftogaz.

As you can imagine, Naftogaz is a black hole on Ukrainians' finances.

It's like if Paris Hilton was taking care of the accounting.

You know,

with so many people working for a state owned enterprise, money disappears and nobody knows

why.

According to the Institute for Economic

Research and Policy Consulting, a Ukrainian think tank, NAFTOGAZ loses more than 3 billion

dollars a year from corruption.

This company is

always reporting financial loses.

And we aren't talking about a little bit of money here.

Just in 2014, Naftogaz losses accounted for 6% of the

entire Ukrainian GDP.

But right there, in 2014, we had the Euromaidan.

And that meant very fast changes.

Changes like this one.

Ukrainian police detain Naftogaz Chairman of Board Yevhen Bakulin

The new CEO of the company is this man you see on the screen, ANDRIY KOBOLIEV, a 40 year

old consultant.

His job could be summarized in two

goals: ending corruption and ending Russian dependency.

And now you might wonder… is he serious about this?

Well… so far, things look good.

Both the European Union and IMF have pushed Ukraine to do

their homework and, it seems like they are trying…

GSE announces new improvements of the storage transparency initiative - Naftogaz of Ukraine

joins Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI+) Since then, Naftogaz has started to make a

profit.

After decades of financial losses, now they account for 13% to the Ukrainian state's

income.

And now you might wonder… what did KOBOLYEV do?

What was his magic formula?

First of all, as is always the case with state monopolies, the prices were controlled by

the Government.

This meant really cheap gas, and

Ukrainian consumers who were used to paying these artificially low prices.

Now, Naftogaz has raised prices to a level equal to that of other

European countries.

Second of all, Kobolyev has confronted Putin with a lot of… lateral thinking.

You see, Gazprom wanted to raise gas prices for Ukraine.

But not

for the rest of the European countries.

So what did Ukraine do?

Instead of fighting with Moskow, they started to buy gas from other European

countries like…

Slovakia.

But, wait, wait a minute here…

Does Slovakia have gas resources?

Of course not!

Listen to this.

The contracts with GAZPROM say that, once the gas arrives in an EU country, Russia loses

control over it.

This means that, the buyer can do

whatever they want with the gas.

So now, Slovakia gets their Russian gas through the Brotherhood pipe and, then, it goes through

the same pipe,

back to Ukraine.

So Slovakia buys Russian gas and then Ukraine buys it from Slovakia.

Thanks to this, Naftogaz has cut a fourth of their

importing costs.

But this is just the beginning!

Kobolyev keeps looking for alternatives!

For example?

AZERBAIJAN.

As we said in other videos, Azerbaijan has

lots of gas.

And they are building a pipeline, the TRANS ANATOLIAN, which goes to Italy.

Kiev wants to connect to this pipe through Bulgaria.

But… we'll dig deeper into this in our closing video for this series.

Because, believe me, Azerbaijan is another interesting topic that deserves

a video on its own.

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So going back to our story, it seems that Ukraine is doing a great job cleaning up corruption,

right?

Well… wait a minute because, as we always

say on VisualPolitik, not everything is all sunshine and rainbows.

If Ukraine wants to fully adapt to European standards, they should liberalize

their gas market.

This would mean that Naftogaz would no longer be a monopoly and they would have to split

the company into several, smaller

ones.

One would be focused on gas production, another one would manage domestic consumption… and

so on.

And, as you can imagine, this is where

the problems come in!

EU and Ukraine in tug of war over Naftogaz unbundling

As you can imagine, as much as Kobolyev wants to clean up the company, too many oligarchs

have been too good to the company for too long.

Yes,

the company can be owned by the state but… this is no excuse to not have millionaire

salaries and millionaire bribes.

And this is hard to just

stop from one day to the next.

But this is not the worst part!

You see… in march 2019, Ukraine will have elections again.

And the result will be decisive for Naftogaz's

future.

And… of course, my dear viewers, Russia has a perfectly defined agenda for this.

Let's have a look at it!

ECONOMICS VERSUS GEOPOLITICS Germany has made it all clear: they will build

the NORDSTREAM 2 pipeline.

Both Brussels and Washington are against it.

In fact, Donald Trump has

been the biggest critic.

He kind of said that even Paris Hilton would do a better job than Germany when it comes

to having a good energy policy.

And now you might wonder…

How is it possible that Angela Merkel has let herself be seduced by Vladimir Putin?

Yes, you know that the former

German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, is Putin's man in Europe.

But… there is more to it than that.

Basically, Germany has a big dilemma.

On one hand, their industry needs gas.

A LOT of gas.

The safer and cheaper, the better.

And, putting

politics aside, NordStream 2 is the best option economy wise.

First, it is cheap.

Second, it avoids all the potential gas wars with Ukraine.

The problem?

This gaspipe would make Germany even more dependent on Russia.

Meanwhile, Putin is happy.

He can bypass Ukraine and also, destroy their economy.

In this regard, Russia's intentions are more obvious than your

ex girlfriend's when she wanted to "have a coffee with you".

Want an example?

Have a look at this map!

This is the Black sea.

And this little sea to the North is the AZOV sea.

Both seas are connected by the KERCH strait.

And Ukraine has two

important harbours in the AZOV sea.

So what did Russia do?

They built a bridge right at the Kerch strait.

A bridge that makes most of the ships

unable to arrive or to leave the Azov sea.

This is why you hear so much news about military escalation in this region now.

So now you might wonder… why is Russia trying so hard to bankrupt Ukraine?

It is all about jealousy?

Of course not!

The thing is… the worse the

anti Russian Ukrainian government does, the better things are for the pro Russian candidates

in the elections.

And is there any pro Russian candidate running in the 2019 Ukrainian elections?

Well… the answer is… anything is possible here!

Here's an example of how crazy this country can be.

In Ukraine they have a TV show called 'Servant of the people'.

The star is a teacher who

fights corruption.

OK, so there's already an actual political party based on this series.

The actor who plays the role of that teacher is the

candidate.

His name is VLADIMIR ZELENSKY.

And… does he have any real chance of winning?

Well… just look at this.

Tymoshenko leading presidential candidate poll, followed by Poroshenko, Zelensky and

Hrytsenko Yes, you heard that right.

He's in the third place, followed by the King of Chocolate and the Gas Princess.

So… yes, it is impossible to predict

what's going to happen.

There is just one clear thing in this story.

And that's that AZERBAIJAN is having a really good time.

But we'll talk

about this in the next video.

So in the meantime, the question for you is…

What would you do if you were Germany?

Would you take that cheap

Russian gas in exchange for leaving Ukraine alone?

Or you would sacrifice competitiveness for political interest?

Please, leave your answer in the comments section below.

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Abraham Hicks No Ads 🎄 Your vortex is ready for 2019 🎄 Greek Cruise - Duration: 14:48.

so last year when I was set on the chair I'll ask you that the thing that I'm

doing with Kawai neutral in my mind and then connecting with my solar plexus and

I'm making it grow that's how I lit up so before I got that answer I was

thought of that as a getting the hot seat trick or get anything in life I

want trick or this is how it works trick yeah so when I was home because

it's what we just talked about it's having already identified the desire and

then in this moment not doing anything that gets in the way of the desire and

so what you just said in really a good way is trying too hard gets in the way

doesn't it yeah and not trying at all is a much better plan yeah but it seems

counterintuitive to humans who have come to believe so much in their trying and

in their strain and pain yeah and it's like you said it's sometimes it's it's

the balance of wanting it so much that you lie yourself to focus in the right

way but not going too far with it and introducing resistance to it and I'll

sometimes it's a hard difficult to find that spot Jerry was teaching in his

financial planning work that he was doing with people put your basket out

there far enough that it excites you when you hit it but not so far that you

can't hit it and it's kind of like that isn't it yeah and you just keep managing

that that's what deliberate creation is it's the massaging of that yeah so when

I was home I thought okay I can build on this feeling and build on this

connection that I made so I started meditating and then first going neutral

and then connecting with my solar plexus and trying to make it grow and from

there on trying to make it grow or allowing it to once you cross over into

no resistance in the absence of resistance it must grow okay yeah and

then I'll put in an intentioned I wanted to receive thoughts for my

intervening now the intentions are already there but by focusing on the

intention this is really something worth clarifying because once you are really

accurate that you are in that state of allowing then by focusing on something

that is satisfying and knowing for sure that you're not introducing resistance

by focusing upon it then you can speed the process it's a question that people

ask of us quite often Abraham you seem sort of like you're contradicting things

because you tell us to be a deliberate creator and then you tell us to be in a

lower so which is it am I supposed to think about what I want or am I supposed

to just chill out and let what I want be and we say well both are necessary

because if you don't define what you want then there isn't a vortex that can

be received by you the answer to the question is which feels most to you

which feels the best you so we're just going to ask you some questions which

will answer your question and then we want to hear more from you so we talked

on the first day about the car that had no resistance at the top of the hill no

brake on out of gear and how if you not just a little it will go down into the

bay but you can stop it if you stop it early on but you can't

stop it if you wait until you're at the bottom of the bay and try to stop it so

we want to talk about the emotional scale and the emotions that feel the

worst which indicate the most resistance and the emotions that feel the best

which indicate the least resistance so when there's despair you can find some

relief in revenge because at least you've got some of your power back and

if you're in the revenge mode you can feel some relief by letting go of that

and just being angry and if you're angry you can feel some relief by letting go

of that and feeling frustration in other words there is releasing of resisting

and it feels like relief when you cross over this Center place in this emotional

scale which we are calling contentment or satisfaction when you cross over into

that you release the last bit of resistance and when you're satisfied

there is not resistance so when you are in the state of meditation and we like

your words you've made your mind go neutral we like to say you feel detached

you're not thinking and since you're not thinking any thought then you're not

thinking resistant thought and when you're not thinking a resistant thought

that feels wonderful but feel the difference between feeling wonderful

because you're not thinking a resistant thought because you're not thinking any

thought feel the difference in that and not feeling resistance because you're

now thinking non-resistant thoughts did you hear the difference your mind isn't

quiet but there's still no resistance if tuned in and now your emotions can

move rather quickly when you focus that way from satisfaction to eagerness to

invincibility that's where you can find yourself feeling such passion as

non-physical energy that's what's happening as Esther is allowing us to

speak to you through her is that she was in this place of non-resistance but as

we are flowing through her it goes far past just that mild satisfaction into

eagerness and passion and fantastic interest and invincibility I can go

there yes and so so when I was in that state I the state of that was the state

of mmm true empowerment a little bit yeah satisfaction and I thought but

that's that's the question I thought I heard the words we are here and the my

ass my question to you is did I receive it yeah or did I receive it and we say

you received it but the reason that have felt to you like you thought it is

because you receive thoughts all the time that you claim

was your own here because and that when I heard that I immediately start crying

and I got goosebumps and when I was all over the place after that way so much

connection and so much impulse comes from your pure connection with Source

Energy and so now what you do is because you don't have to be in meditation to

receive like that it just can't be in resistance so anytime you're feeling

satisfaction or more you are in the receiving mode and thoughts and impulses

that flow to you and through you are absolutely coming from your inner being

and you are receiving them all right nice to know that's nice to know

thank you in the early days ester wondered about that too because first of

all we're not speaking words were offering vibration that she is

translating into the word equivalent and so it's logical that it is her

vocabulary that's being used her turn of phrase her even examples of life and so

she began standing at the podium or sitting in the chair or wherever she was

at the beginning of every interaction with us with this projection of thought

as she relaxed into the experience Abraham I want to speak clearly your

words because she didn't want to be speaking her own words but when it is

your mechanism when it is your point of view and your inner beam is speaking

through so in the beginning we say to you we see you here in your physical

bodies and we say here you are in your physical body but you are more than you

know and then we say there is a non-physical part of you that you were

before you came into this body and then we say and that non-physical part of you

that was you before you came into this body still is even though you're in this

body because only part of that consciousness is in this body and the

larger part of that consciousness is not so that conversation in some ways serve

to sort of separate you from you just a little bit as we talked about the

physical you and the inner be you and then we began talking about the

blending of the two because that's really what it is all about you want to

be in this physical body as a full recipient we touched on this just a

little bit the other day but we really want to embellish it now by reminding

you that as source energy flows through you you are an extension of that source

energy but you're such an important part of what source energy is focused upon we

really are all in this together and we mentioned that as many who would sit in

an audience or visit with us in this way who find Esther to be clear and

confident and really exhilarated about what's pouring through in other words

you are witnessing an absence of resistance as you are having this

experience with Abraham in this way but for someone who doesn't understand the

basics of that blending who hasn't come to understand who they also are as

extensions of Source Energy they might just think that this is

someone with very practiced words who does a good job of expressing them in

confidence they mean ways but once you have and really only when you have as

you have come into your own alignment with Source Energy

only when you know for sure that you have quieted your mind and that you're

in a state of non thought and only when you have felt the rising of your own

vibrational frequencies and the integrating of the frequencies if you

was your inner being and then received the projection of thought then you

understand then you know then you are intertwined then you know your potential

then you understand then you've found your place in the universe again for

sure and this connection we say it often it's not like a college degree where

once you accomplish it it is yours forevermore it either is or it isn't in

the moment these piles that we want you to mix everybody out and put in these

piles up under the influence or of your intervene or not they are not

permanent piles it all has to do with what you're doing with your vibration

now and more important what you've been doing yes and so so I got a a dead duck

tails with that a little bit as in a question about interpretation because

I'm always focused on pre manifestation awareness as in what I'm thinking what

I'm feeling so what's gonna come back if I go through this route but I'm also

always interest in post manifestation awareness so but nice when they jive

isn't it yeah when you see something coming yeah but sometimes something

happens and you can interpret it as in a million ways like I don't know like I'm

seeing a cat walking on the street and I think oh shit I must be aligned because

he's looking at me I'm winking at me or whatever but but it can be just just

whatever doesn't have to do anything with alignment really here's the thing

everything that comes into your vicinity is part of your point of attraction and

we know what you're getting at in other words how much of this is the response

of my deliberate offering of vibration and we want to say let's just start with

how much of this is in response to my vibration and then how much of my

vibration is deliberate because sometimes you're more deliberate than

others but that's why we were playing with our friend earlier today about the

consideration that he was having for the woman who was sitting next to him we

want you to get it that your vortex really is ready to pop at all times

so actually very little that you are doing in this red-hot moment is the

reason that something comes into your experience just like when you plant the

kernel of corn in the ground you don't expect it to just pop up and be full of

ears you understand that there's a process and so there's this deciding

process and the planting process and then tending to process and there's a

gnat gestation process and there's the law of

attraction and your own inner being and Source Energy a focused upon it process

things are always being presented or you might say projected or you could say

revealed to you things are always being revealed to you the big question is are

you in a state of realization of it and the more you hold yourself in that state

of being tuned in so that you are focused upon and feeling and aware of

the dovetailing of you and you the fullness of you and you then you begin

to feel that not only the feeling that we're all in this together

but the importance of your point of view the feeling of invincibility what we

mean by that is I can do anything say again I can do anything that is that

that's what it is for me not only I can do anything that I decide to do but in

this moment time the energy that creates worlds is pouring through me and all

that I've intended that is in my vortex is available to me and that feeling of

invincibility or eagerness or readiness is the feeling that allows you to

receive the impulse or the words you say you see

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