Here’s one ‘seriously’ as an example.
June 8th. “First US Natural Gas Shipment Arrives In Poland, Undermining Russia”
Trump eating into Pootie Poot’s hard currency energy market in Europe.
It’s true. Natural gas shipments introduce big competition for Russia.
But Trump’s work destroying ISIS has been helpful to mother Russia.
I’m confident that Trump will know what Putin really needs and deliver it to him as part of a larger deal. The US and Russia will become big allies, but it will take some time.
Russia has a lot of programmer talent and smart engineers. Putin needs to unleash that talent more. Relying on the energy industry to rebound isn’t going to happen for them.
So Trump is forcing Russia to face reality. Long term, their energy business will remain weak.
Thank God for the American ingenuity that created fracking technology: it might very well force Russia out of the military tough guy role so it spends less on defense and stops intimidating its customers.
Oil and natural gas is become beautiful international leverage for us. And the ex-CEO of Exxon Mobile is our Secretary of State! What a coincidence.... not!