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Capoditutticapi1 [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

There's a ton to go through... Not sure if this or the other info is important, but thought win would be interested and able to share the significance with experts here...

From: Robert Biden [email protected] Sun, Apr 13, 2014, 12:43 AM To: Devon Archer [email protected] Date: Sunday, Apr 13, 2014 12:43 AM Subject: Tmrw I have to go to Houston with Beau tmrw for MD Anderson check up. Some thoughts after doing some research. And some further thoughts on organization going forward.

  1. Poroshenko appears to be the likely next President. Determining our teams relationship with him is important. He is credible with the west and by all accounts a true reformer (by Uk standards).
  2. Some sort of decentralization will likely occur in the East. If it doesn't the Russians will continue to escalate there destabilization campaign, which could lead to a full scale take over of the eastern region most critically Donetsk. The strategic value is to create a land bridge for RU to Crimea.
  3. That won't directly affect Burisma holdings but it will limit future Uk exploration and utilization of offshore opportunities in particular.
  4. It will also result in further destabilization of Uk nationally and for whatever govt is in power. And the US will respond with even stronger sanctions. Those sanctions will threaten the tenuous support of the EU which does not have the political will to incur steep energy price increases.