Rex Tillerson's nomination as Secretary of State should tip us off. He signed a $500 billion deal with Roznet,the largest Russian oil supplier to jointly explore for oil on 63 million acres of Russian land. It was the biggest oil deal in history and would have provided ExxonMobil with decades of an oil stream in an era where oil is more difficult to find.
Rachel Maddow had said the deal would have changed the direction of Russian history. Then Putin invaded the Ukraine and seized Crimea. U.S. sanctions and those of our allies stalled the deal.
All President Trump has to do is unilaterally lift the sanctions and then launch Tillerson to use the might of the United States to get others to lift their sanctions.
Which then brings us to the Paris Climate Agreement. Trump said he would evaluate it according to whether the United States would be put at a competitive disadvantage to CHINA. Which means he will pull out of it.
So Putin had real interests in this election, not just his hatred of Hillary Clinton.
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