{"id":5378,"date":"2014-04-03T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2014-04-03T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:15:48","slug":"could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5378","title":{"rendered":"Could be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Let me see if I have this right&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nUkraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas) from Russia.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Revenues from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia is\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ukraine is almost broke and can&#8217;t afford the increase in the natural\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">gas price because it would be forced into bankruptcy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Obama,(the USA) just announced the United States is giving Ukraine $1\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">billion to assist in paying for the higher priced natural gas it buys\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">from Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, the United States is actually giving Russia $1 billion because\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">the money is just passing through Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first question: Has Putin figured out a way to raise the price\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">of his natural gas sales and make the U.S. pay for the increase?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next question: Was he really in the KGB or was he a commodities trader?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If this analysis is accurate, Putin just got Obama (the USA) to pay\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">him $1 billion by holding a press conference and trucking some troops\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">across town from the Russian Navy base in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who is the smartest guy in the room now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps it&#8217;s not &#8220;Obama!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me see if I have this right&#8230; Ukraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas) from Russia.\u00a0Revenues from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia. Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia is\u00a0raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine. Ukraine is almost broke and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=5378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could be<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}