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IDK.

Maybe energy companies are an easy place to launder money. Harder to track?

But I suspect it’s Ukraine far more than Burisma that is of interest. From what I’ve read, Ukraine is a major hub of child trafficking.

Here’s a guess - just a guess.... What if the Q team is using the Biden / Burisma corruption in order to draw attention to Ukraine? To get a “foot in the door” with educating the sleeping public? We’ve been hearing about Ukraine nearly every day for months and months.

Trying to tell the average person that Ukraine is trafficking children might be too difficult to absorb all at once. But suck people in with something they understand and cloak it in more understandable corruption. Hunter got a job he had zero qualifications for because his dad was VP.

Everyone can understand that. (Even dems who are in denial.) Then once everyone is on board with that story, gradually expand it until you reach the part that involves trafficking children.

Or, now bout this? Ukraine is unstable because it’s always been crooked. Russia needs Ukraine to get its natural gas out to Europe. Ukraine says “Uh, no thanks. We don’t want to deal with you.” Russia says “A pox upon you”.

The following is from EIA.gov, the US Energy Information Administration...this website is like energy for dummies, ;)

Natural gas

In 2015, Ukraine consumed almost 1.3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas, a decrease of 14% from 2014. Domestic production accounted for 54% of total consumption while the remainder of natural gas supply was met through imports from Europe and Russia. Russia has historically supplied a majority of Ukraine’s natural gas, but beginning in 2015, Ukraine has significantly reduced its direct import of Russian natural gas and instead has received natural gas shipments from Europe. Much of the gas imported from Europe, however, originates in Russia and is brought into Ukraine via reverse flows from central and eastern European countries.

Recent discoveries of shale gas deposits in Ukraine have the potential to provide the country with another means to diversify its natural gas supplies away from Russia, but regional conflict has hampered further exploration and development in the short term. After negotiating multi-billion dollar deals both Chevron and Shell, ended natural gas contracts in Ukraine in 2014, citing instability in the region.

Ukraine’s geographic position and proximity to Russia explain its importance as a natural gas and petroleum liquids transit country. In 2015, European countries received 5.4 Tcf of Russian natural gas, an increase of about 9% from the previous year. Numerous countries in the region receive Russian natural gas partly or exclusively via Ukraine, including Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey.

Two major pipeline systems carry Russian natural gas through Ukraine to Western Europe - the Bratstvo (”Brotherhood”) and Soyuz (”Union”) pipelines. The Bratstvo pipeline is Russia’s largest pipeline to Europe. It crosses from Ukraine to Slovakia and splits into two directions to supply northern and southern European countries. The Soyuz pipeline links Russian pipelines to natural gas networks in central Asia and supplies additional volumes to central and northern Europe. A third major pipeline through Ukraine delivers Russian natural gas to the Balkan countries and Turkey. In the past, disputes between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas supplies, prices, and debts have resulted in interruptions to Russia’s natural gas exports through Ukraine, with the latest one occurring in 2014.

Russia has indicated it plans to proceed with construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which would bypass Ukraine in transporting natural gas to Europe and is expected to be complete in 2019.

(US Energy Information Administration)