With all the speculation swirling around international intrigue and electioneering I see another reason Vlad would want to impale the heart of America, MONEY!
Destroying NATO, the Western Alliance and as a bonus, the EU has been a wet dream of Vladimir Putin since his days as a KGB agent. We may be overlooking the obvious, a lot of money for both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Let us hold hands and make a circle. Rex Tillerson who recently “left” his position at ExxonMobil Corp. to make his eligibility as US Secretary of State legal, signed an agreement with PEMEX (PetróleosMexicanos) www.offshore-mag.com/.... This is just free enterprise and I hold nothing against good free enterprise. I do look askance when it creeps so blatantly into the White House. Before you all smack your foreheads and welcome me to the revelation club, big oil greasing the wheels of politics, I know, is nothing new.
I contend that one of the reasons Rex Tillerson was brought on was to throw a bone to Mr. Trump and have Tillerson negotiate the “WALL.” It has been widely reported that number two( Russian owned) oil producer Lukoil has curtailed expansion of its oil drilling in Russia since at least January of 2014 www.reuters.com/... about ten months before Tillerson signed a cooperation agreement with PEMEX in October of the same year. Again, nothing unusual about a number one, competing with a number two.
Time to speculate…
Two of the things that drive Donald Trump most are ego and money, in whatever order you would like. Tillerson will only have the job he is seeking for a maximum of 8 years and as a with a lot of Secretaries of State probably shorter, attrition is to be expected. The last Secretary of State to serve two terms was Dean Rusk, under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson www.quora.com/.... So, we have a three-headed monster of conflict being formed with the former head of Exxon sitting on the throne of policy making with big oil, running heard over Mexico and its government run PEMEX and Putin controlling the future of Lukoil’s drilling rights into one of the richest oil deposits in the world. PEMEX is a third of the Mexican economy and needs Lukoil, not to expand. ExxonMobil Corp., has a half trillion-dollar investment into Russia oil lands rights, the only thing stopping the transfer of countless amounts of money are the sanctions on Russia. www.msnbc.com/.... Tillerson’s name sprang up amid the Romney charade. Who better to fight sanctions, after being installed by Vladimir Putin, than his old running buddy, Rex Tillerson as Sec. of State? www.msnbc.com/... I am sure, being told what to do just “pisses” off Mr. Trump.
Intrigue…
Out of the depths of American Intelligence we find out, post-election, that the FBI and CIA were holding data that could have been damaging to President-elect Trump but were willing to put the speculative meanderings of FBI Director James Comey front and center when it involved Hillary Clinton. I believe much like the George W. Bush Administration bamboozled Colin Powel into making the case for the invasion of Iraq, Mr. Comey was a witting dupe in bringing down Hillary Clinton. The one constant is Vladimir Putin.
Tillerson, Trump and Putin could split a tidy profit, Mexico, to stay in the game, relents and reimburses for the wall, Putin gets the half trillion from Exxon and America suffers the world humiliation of Donald J. Trump. Oh, I forgot Lukoil, The Kremlin’s hole card, the palace needs and overhaul, “hey Lukoil, we could use a few rubles, you can drill over in that corner. What a sweet ‘crude’ deal
Vote 2018, it’s not too late!