I'm calling it the Ukrainian bride business is dead kaput
at the very best it's on life support and is brain dead so what am I talking about
I'm talking about the multi-billion dollar industry pitching Ukrainian traditional brides
to potential Western suitors let's get into and explain to you it's going to surprise you actually
the dynamics and the reasons as to the death knell for this pretty scurrilous industry поїхали!
Привіт from what I used to formerly called quite often scam central Odesa Mama as much as I love Odesa
and Ukraine this city in particular was afflicted with a large number of scams revolving around this
whole for one of a better word mail order bride industry basically the whole business
was predicated on an exchange between the higher socioeconomic status of many Western men obviously
who signed up for their services and the relatively higher attractiveness in terms of beauty of
Ukrainian women in exchange that was basically the main fulcrum of the business here in Ukraine in
the 1990s there was a complete socio-economic collapse as a result of the implosion of the
Soviet Union and many women were desperate the situation here indeed I guess was desperate and
it was a time also when there wasn't really an easy way to travel Ukrainians needed visas it was
expensive it was very hard to get a Visa where would they meet Western men they weren't it wasn't
so much tourism I guess from the West here in Ukraine at the time and into that void jumped some
entrepreneurs shall we say who then provided you know an interface a website in which Western men
can meet local Ukrainian women and presumably take them out of you know be that kind of white
knight coming in to save my lady and take her off to the relative security of the West now how are
these companies making money in say the 2020s or late 2010s well it was permanently through
a couple of ways one was that they were doing what's known as letter writing now I have a
lot of videos on my YouTube channel here I even started a premium online course called Slavic
ScamBuster Secrets because letter writing is basically when I mean they don't actually write
physical letters anymore they write messages or maybe they even have upgraded that to some video
chat but basically you're paying for communication right so the western guy is sitting there he's
probably to put it unflattering maybe a overweight gentleman in his 50s from somewhere in the midwest
in in the US and he doesn't have many dating options back home and he goes online and he
starts talking to these Slavic beauties who are willing to entertain him for a fee in fact when
you look at many of these websites as I did this morning to see if they still exist even a lot of
them don't even talk about they might have bride in the name but they actually just talk about that
you're paying for communication to talk to people because that's basically what you were doing you
are basically paying a fee to talk to someone now if you can't even see them and talk to them in
real time on you know a video chat you're probably not even talking to that person
My girlfriend here she is still receiving messages from these kind of agencies or
middlemen who basically want to buy the rights to her photos to put in these kind of websites
because these websites don't actually guarantee you're talking to that person if you read the
small print quite often and basically yeah it's like a modeling job they just take her
her image like instead of selling shampoo she's basically be like selling the idea of being this
girl on the internet of course she doesn't do that but yeah that's basically what's going on
they basically charge guys to communicate it is putting it this way if you're paying for
communication you're off your rocker at this stage you have not really been scammed there's so much
information here on YouTube and other places if you do your research obviously if you're someone
who has come across my video now just stop it in sum the basic pitch is that these women have the
looks of a supermodel but with the mores of your grandma right and they built up this kind of myth
I guess now the other way that they were doing this and making money was through running tours
so they would bring a bunch of Western guys together put and then bring them around
introduce the whim it could be introductions or they were running what's known as socials
these are basically just big parties where they have a complete overkill of Ukrainian
women in terms of a ratio versus the ratio of men so maybe there's like 10 guys who paid to
be there and there's like maybe 100, 200 women so it's complete overkill they have absolutely
no chance to speak to most of the women and they just basically all their sensors are completely
overloaded and yeah so that's basically how they were making money in my opinion extremely unlikely
that you're going to meet someone using any of these methods but some people do not saying no
one ever did I've met guys who have but in general considering it's a multi-billion dollar industry
extremely inefficient and much of it the overall majority a complete scam so why has that changed
let's get into the next clip and all like why it's dead it's in August 2021 I made a
video you're predicting that the mail order bride industry here in Ukraine was doomed
and in fact it's actually a shot in Kherson which was liberated a few days ago by the
Ukrainian forces actually president Zelensky of Ukraine is there today when I'm filming
this video just give you a big hint about the big change obviously you've been living under
a rock if you haven't noticed that Russia launched a full-blown invasion of Ukraine on February 24th
2022 and as a result this process the downward decline of this industry has accelerated so let me
explain some of the dynamics as to why I'm here in Odesa, Ukraine you can see but I'm one of the few
foreigners who is probably here because obviously it's not entirely safe to be in Ukraine we have a it's
a country of war there's a risk of a drone attack a rocket attack by Russian forces here so as you
can imagine there's no real international tourism in Ukraine for the moment and as a result one of
those ways that I outlined how this business makes money i.e. tours or socials introductions in person in
Ukraine completely dead because basically guys are not willing to travel from the West to come
here and I completely understand why because it's not safe right so obviously that's one
of the big money spinners completely gone so what they can continue to do I guess is
to what they've been doing before which is continue online and the letter writing scams
against those can continue I've looked at a lot of their websites and they can host like kind of
guess speed dating rooms use that online and allow people to meet you meet each other
that way that's one way or they can arrange just for one to one kind of introductory calls with
women but you gotta remember how the dynamics have changed locally with this February 24th invasion I
made you know I left here around February 25th originally and I made a vlog about leaving and
as a result millions and millions of Ukrainians also left here left the city of Odesa left Kyiv,
left Kharkiv, Mykolayiv, Kherson obviously an awful lot of people left and most of those were women and
children or the elderly because men of military age here in Ukraine were not allowed to leave
by and large without a justification so you can imagine that that has changed the dating
dynamics on the ground in Ukraine quite a lot and also for Ukrainians who have left in general my
observation is that whilst a lot of people have come back to Ukraine in the last few months
they are mainly if they're women women who have boyfriends or husbands or family and they are not
single because in general they would be coming back to maybe see their husband or their boyfriend
because he might be in the military he might be here doing ... still living and working as a civilian
and the women who are abroad are the vast majority of Ukrainian women who are single
and probably the ones that are most interested in meeting a foreigner right so those women are just
not here and they are now in the West most of them are in the European Union those women can
actually I'll put it to you this way actually a Ukrainian passport is now for moving relocation
stronger than say my Irish passport because if I want to move the US it's not going to be
as straightforward as it would be for a Ukrainian remember in the beginning I said that the kind of
premise of this whole business was this implicit exchange between socio-economics and beauty
and the social economics well because the Ukrainian passport is now so strong they can move
to the West and you know they can have the same rights as basically a European Union citizen they'll
get a job they'll be helped by the government while they're looking for a job those women
and now we got into the beauty part of the equation well why was there beauty famed
because on average Eastern European women are more beautiful than Western European women on
average not saying every single one don't go mad in the comments but that's just basically
a truism at that stage now those women who are Ukrainian they are in the West so we'll use that
scale that's not great but one to ten in terms of beauty maybe there are six in Ukraine they're
hanging out in London or they're hanging out in my hometown of Galway in Ireland and they've gone
from six to an eight on the local beauty scale and what that means is that they have a lot of
more options than they would have had before the war in Ukraine ceteris paribus the socio-economic
part of that equation is already taken care of and their dating options are way better than before
so they definitely don't need the Ukrainian bride business anymore if they want to become
a Ukrainian bride with a Western man they're already there and think about it the women who
are here in Ukraine a little bit well most of the other Ukrainian women who were single have left so and
it's obviously the single Ukrainian men have not left in general so they also have way more
options than they had before and also with this war I think there's been a renewed appreciation
of Ukrainian men by Ukrainian women because those are the guys on the front lines defending this
country from Russian aggression and savagery and you know those kind of more basic instincts kick
in which is self-preservation and obviously those guys are willing to go out and find on
the front line in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are definitely seen as the real men and if you're a
Western guy suddenly showed up here in Odesa with a marriage agency thinking that oh you know there
are no foreigners here at the moment no tourists so they must all be desperate to leave Ukraine
number one they can all leave anyways they don't need to find a foreign husband to do that and
probably not going to see him particularly high value vis-a-vis there are other options if they've
stayed or if they are in the European Union or somewhere else in the West at the moment they've
already made it there so they're behind me you can see the Odesa Opera House quite a famous landmark
here in the city center I shot a video there with an American guy who has a Ukrainian partner
and a child and he was out on the front lines so there you go that's how you impress the Ukrainian
girls if you're going to come here at the moment that's the real man mindset so here he obviously
had if you haven't seen the video on link it up above down below in the description but he had
previously served in the US military so he actually had the right skill set in order to do
that and I encouraging you to go out and fight if you're not trained properly so in conclusion it is
the death of an industry that I'll be personally happy to see the end of the back of because it was
a stain on Ukraine's reputation also here in Odesa in particular because it was centered a lot
around this city many of these Ukrainian bridal agencies are based here so what should you do
as a result if you are looking to meet the beautiful women of Eastern Europe well I
was never in that business the mail-order bride business or pitching Ukrainian brides I
did help my clients come to countries like Ukraine and five X their lifestyle most of
my clients who moved to the region prior to this war were basing themselves in Ukraine
and then you know there were single guys that were meeting the local girls here organically
with a strategy and doing very well but alas is not a realistic option for now
So what do you do? Well I basically I've been on this mission for the last couple of months
checking out the alternatives in the region namely Moldova just got back from Kazakhstan
yes Kazakhstan and I have a few videos already that I'll link above and cards down below in the
description to this video I'll give you an idea about those countries as alternatives I'm also
going to go probably in the next few months to Georgia, Latvia and Poland maybe some other parts
of the Baltics and give you some reports from those countries as well I've been pretty impressed
by Kazakhstan and Moldova in any case over the last few months so if you are looking for some
bespoke advice about what to do going forward I have my consulting down below there is a link
in the description to that and we can jump on a call we can figure out a bespoke plan for you
about how you can meet the beautiful women of Eastern Europe and also five X your lifestyle by
relocating part of the year between 3 and 12 months so from beautiful free Odesa, Ukraine
слава Україні! Героям слава! I'll see you in the next video from a different location Ciao-ciao!