This is what it is all about. All of the other stuff is to appease some political faction. It’s all about the $11B of Rosneft stock going to Trump and $500B oil deal between Exxon and Rosneft moving forward. With Iraq, we saw what happens when private interests manipulate national security matters. This is Iraq 2.0, except outcome is even more uncertain.
More trade with Russia? This will be great, and I wonder why previous administrations have had such a hard time cultivating relationship with such an important country.
This is actually concerning. Trump and crew are not selling the US out, though. They are enriching themselves. If anything, Putin probably needs this more than Trump needs another billion, which is why Putin is willing to pay such a high price. He and his buddies are basically running pooled assets of around $200b, and when his buddies can’t get to their foreign villas and yachts due to sanctions, Putin starts to get internal pressure, which is very dangerous for him. These guys don’t play around.
I fully expect politicians to enrich themselves to an extent. However, when an administration uses national security matters to enrich its members bad things happen. The consequences are unpredictable, just as with Iraq. Maybe we get world peace, maybe we get a nuclear armed terrorist group. Can’t really know. It is actually somewhat reminiscent of Iraq, as you say, in that everyone knows about it, the information is available, but the public and news media is too ADD to focus on it long enough to make a difference.
Also, that 0.5% difference could be due to transactional costs. Very suspicious.
My comment was mostly tongue in cheek, but there actually is a Clinton connection. One of the disclosed buyers is Glencore, which was founded by none other than Clinton buddy Marc Rich. Rich was obviously not involved since he’s been dead for 3 years, but just sayin’
A dossier of unverified claims alleges serious conspiracy and misconduct in the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign. The White House has dismissed the dossier as fiction, and most of the claims remain unverified. The timeline of major events, however, lines up.
The document includes one particularly explosive allegation - that the Trump campaign agreed to minimize US opposition to Russia’s incursions into Ukraine in exchange for the Kremlin releasing negative information about Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. The timing of events supporting this allegation also lines up.
It’s official, the FBI is formally investigating links between Russia and the Trump campaign . This isn’t going away for a while. All they can do is deny and pray . Even Fox says so:
Yawn good, keep them tied up with that goose chase for years. Further discredit FBI (nobody trusts Comey). Any hard proof , like government monitoring, puts ObamaGate in the spotlight.
Schiff says there is “more than circumstantial” evidence of Russia-Trump campaign collusion. We are witnessing one of the greatest betrayals of the US by a POTUS or surrogates in history. Espionage charges coming
So Schiff leaked information about the investigation just like Nunes? When will Cummings go on CNN and demand that Schiff remove himself from the investigation and demand that he be investigated?
Nunes abruptly cancels open meeting. The fix is in, im sure we will all be told everything was fine within a few days and they saw the evidence and that its a national security matter that we cant know of. Usual govt stuff, maybe we’ll know the truth in 50 years.
. This isn’t going away for a while. All they can do is deny and pray 
. Even Fox says so: