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the earlier sanctions placed on Russia because of their Ukraine/Crimea strong arm lifted as well.
Russia has only one thing that other people want it's awash in oil, oil in the ground though.
Putin wants the sanctions lifted so the trillions of dollars worth of oil in their oil fields can be extracted.
A deal is struck between Rosneft, the Russian oil giant, Putin and a novice American politician who is promised a cut of the trillions.
Subsequently, Rex Tillerson, formerly of Exxon, the oil extraction company, is appointed Sec'y of State by the novice American politician, now president.
The novice American politician will need his cut of the money laundered.
Billionaire Wilbur Ross, is suddenly the new commerce secretary who just happens to have ties to Deutsche Bank, as does trump. Ross also has enough influence in the banking industry to have just appointed the new chairman of the Bank of Cyprus.
Money laundering, anyone?
Michael Flynn, Jeff Beauregard Session, Jared Kushner, Carter Paige and others have meetings with Russians during the campaign.
Curiously, new Clinton emails are allegedly found and FBI director Comey is forced to reveal this eleven days before the election, thus swinging the election to the novice American politician.
H-m-m-m-m? Even a few percentage points of trillions is a lot of money, millions even, even when divided among many.
Michael Flynn, the new National Security Adviser, and possibly others have discussions with the Russians during the transition period. Guaranteeing what, I wonder?
I'd be willing to bet the bank, if I owned it, that lifting sanctions was as much a part of the conversation in all of these meetings as campaign tampering the sanctions lifted being the payment for the election tampering help, and the novice American politician's cut of Rosneft being his personal payment.
Somewhat convoluted but some how credible. What's incredible though is that the novice American politician thought that this whole shebang, with Russians connected to it dying by the half dozen, could be hidden with no one the wiser.
Greedy and dumb is not a good combination.
murielm99
(30,745 posts)Trump does what Bannon tells him to do. Every cabinet appointment is someone who will wreck or weaken the agency he or she heads. It looks like a planned attempt to destroy our government.
Putin may not know all the people by name, but Bannon knows who will make good wrecking balls.
brush
(53,791 posts)the strings behind the scene.There hasn't been much scuttlebutt concerning his connections to Putin but I think you hit on it.
Both probably have each other as top contacts in their cells.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Problem is, 90% of it is under ice and snow...frozen top.
Global warming can only help them. Modern drilling today makes this a huge bonanza is sanctions are lifted.
brush
(53,791 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Thank you for this Nexus, brush.. and as Jon Favreau tweets..
Link to tweet