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Originally Posted by octothorp
Exxon has reportedly asked for a waiver from the Russia sanctions to work with Rosneft on a joint venture.
Which is just so brazen in the face of the Steele dossier allegations. It almost seems like it was put out there just for Trump to not approve it so that they could claim to not be in the back pocket of Russian oil interests.
Or, they roll it into negotiation of some peace deal in Syria... Russia backs off Syria a bit, in exchange the sanctions get lifted for Exxon/Rosneft, Trump claims he negotiated peace in the middle east, and Trump and whoever else got that 19% stake in Rosneft profits.
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19% of Rosneft's market share is going to be in the neighbourhood of a $trillion USD. The whole thing is made even worse by the fact the Rex Tillerson (former head of Exxon until recently) is the Secretary of State and Russia has a crap ton of oil fields that can be only be explored using Exxon technology. He probably had a hand in engineering these deals/election and Tillerson/Trump will greatly profiting from just this one act while the US implodes on itself. How can anyone reading these not see at this point the Orange guy's presidency was bought and paid for from the start.
Article on the topic
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...ssia-sanctions