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oilprice | Former Secretary of State, Condaleeza Rice, who also sits on the BoD,
along with Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary, Robert Gates,
both listed as an Exxon consultant, also were strong backers of
Tillerson to Trump.
It’s hardly a coincidence that Henry
Kissinger, for decades, the Rockefeller Family’s chief foreign policy
advisor, with strong personal connections to Russian President Putin,
has emerged as a chief foreign policy advisor to the Trump
Administration.
Nor is it surprising that published reports of
Kissinger’s advice to Trump is to seek to normalize US/Russian
relations, diametrically opposed to the Obama/Clinton policies of
confrontation with Russia.
It is also part of a broader strategy
to tempt Russia towards closer relations with the US/EU while
sacrificing its growing close relations with China, viewed by Trump, as
it was by Obama and Clinton, as the chief obstacle to the U.S. dominant
global leadership. As a critical part of the deal, Russia is expected to
accede to sacrifice its budding alliance with Iran.
Now the human
drama watch begins; will Putin cave in to the demands of the West to
renounce his allies in exchange for the improved relation and the
dropping of sanctions?
The West has in hand some very powerful
means of persuasion, including increased Russian access to the huge
European energy market, restored western financial credit, access to
Western technology, and a seat at the global decision-making table, all
of which Russia badly needs and wants. Consider that three Russian
proposed natural gas pipelines to Europe have been stalled since
sanctions were imposed over Ukraine, leaving billions of dollars on the
table.
Foreshadowing all of this was a news leak late last year in
Germany’s Bild Zeitung, that Kissinger has drafted a plan to officially
recognize Crimea as part of Russia and lift the Obama administration’s
economic sanctions.
What this means for Russia, just now emerging
from nearly two years of recession, is a possible return to prosperity,
an offer that any national leader would find hard to resist.
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