Posted on 03/23/2016 3:19:24 PM PDT by Trumpinator
I am seeing the big picture - Trump is saying we don't need these Muslim Saudi and Iranian savages anymore. Get the Eastern Christians (which includes Russians) and the Israelis working their gas resources and leave the filthy head chopping Muslims behind and keep them out. This George Papadopoulos was also a Ben Carson advisor.
Thank you, Jesus.
I am commenting on the info I read in the Washington Post article here:
George Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, directs an international energy center at the London Center of International Law Practice.
He previously advised the presidential campaign of Ben Carson and worked as a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. According to his LinkedIn profile, he has had meetings with the president of Cyprus and the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates. He obtained a masters’s degree from the University of London in 2010.
Papadopoulos confirmed on Monday that he was an adviser to Trump but declined further comment.
Almost all his work appears to have revolved around the role of Greece, Cyprus and an Israeli natural gas discovery in the eastern Mediterranean.
His points in all of them boil down to this: Israel should use the natural gas it has found in the giant Leviathan field offshore in the eastern Mediterranean to build bridges to Greece and Cyprus – and avoid dealing with Turkey at all costs. Any extra gas could be sent to Egypt, which Papadopoulos said already has liquefied natural gas plants for importing gas.
He also urged Israel to settle antitrust issues regarding its oil and gas industry – by “providing the regulatory certainty” — so that relatively large companies can exploit the natural gas soon.
Shipping the natural gas to Turkey by pipeline and from there to the rest of Europe might be relatively inexpensive, Papadopoulos has written, but he said, Israel should look elsewhere. The Turkish option, he wrote in March 2014, is “bereft of the political realities in the region and does not take into account the potentially devastating impact this option can have on Israel’s strategic relations with EU member Cyprus, and by extension, all of Europe.” He writes: “Regional economic cooperation between Israel and Cyprus should be the guiding principle that anchors Israel economically to Europe.”
In October 2015, he wrote in Haaretz that “Israel’s energy exports can serve as the basis for enhancing strategic relations between Israel and Egypt. They could also serve as the foundation for political and security cooperation with Greece and Cyprus.”
Elizabeth Rosenberg, an energy expert at the Center for a New American Security, said judging from the limited writing Papadopoulos has done that “his approach won’t square well with an American audience: he lacks a strong contemporary background on domestic energy issues.” She added that “he has argued for Israeli gas moving to Europe. If that eventually comes to pass it will compete with U.S. gas to Europe. The United States and Israel are allies, but whose team is he on?”
My take? American natural liquefied gas to Europe is a pipedream. It is too expensive to export that distance at these modern day prices.
Also, in Trump's tent of advisors is a well known and respected killer of jihadi Muslims, Walid Phares:
During the 1980s, Phares, a Maronite Christian, trained Lebanese militants in ideological beliefs justifying the war against Lebanon’s Muslim and Druze factions, according to former colleagues. Phares, they say, advocated the hard-line view that Lebanon’s Christians should work toward creating a separate, independent Christian enclave. A photo obtained by Mother Jones shows him conducting a press conference in 1986 for the Lebanese Forces, an umbrella group of Christian militias that has been accused of committing atrocities. He was also a close adviser to Samir Geagea, a Lebanese warlord who rose from leading hit squads to running the Lebanese Forces.
And the other advisor is Carter Page, who has Russian energy experience. That makes sense - if you will have the Europeans buy Israel and Greek gas then you need to make sure this does not antagonize the Russians. Make the Russians partners/allies to avoid a turf war.
Another 2015 with another vanity.
2015? You ok?
So you’re **not** a 2015 sig-up?
I thought you had a stroke or something and thought this was 2015. So what I signed on in 2015? - this isn’t high school where you get credit for being a senior. As far as I am concerned the force of the opinion carries the day not when you signed up.
As far as you’re concerned? LOL
What power have you over me since you signed on first? I don’t see anything worth commenting on in your history?
I’ve posted 32,334 threads and 80,211 replies. How did you go through them all? Are you a supercomputer?
All those posts and no impact. So sad.
What about your 80,211 replies? Any mention anywhere? Anyone notice?
What an ego.
The arrogance are people who come on here mentioning when they joined as if that gives them some sort of authority.
Interesting that “Trumpinator” stopped posting back in July 2016. I wonder if there’s some connection between him and the overeager unpaid intern Papadopolous?
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