Discussion: Treasury Dept. Denies Exxon Waiver To Resume Oil Drilling In Russia

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Is Mnuchin sure he understands his orders correctly?

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Part of the"see how tough we are on Russia" campaign.

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I think Mnuchin is going bye-bye given this decision.

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that’s likely part of it…the other part (and this is me) is that nowadays (subject to change), Trump and Putin aren’t seeing eye to eye.

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I’m a tad skepticheskiy about this being the end of it.

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Tillerson is more unnecessary by the day…

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Keep your eye on the other hand, people. This is the distraction.

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Mnkabuki

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Who believes anything this administration says? I understand this to mean that they wont grant the waiver today. Tomorrow? Next week? Who the fuck knows.

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Trump TougH on ExxOn. Not A putiN puPpet!

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I know McCain raised hell about a possible waiver and there are a decent number of Russia Hawks in the Senate to gum up/actually raise hell over this.

I don’t fault Mnnuchin for knowing which way the wind is blowing.

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eggzactly

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Part of the “There’s nothing to investigate because we’ll be ‘tough’ on Russia now and then” plan.

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I don’t believe them at all. But I do believe things have not gone according to plan for them.

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…and from The Hill

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Understood. I just expect it to happen anyway - Eventually all those empty regulatory desks in D.C. will add up to real money.

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Sorry, by reapply after the midterms.

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I’ll just leave this here:

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I must admit I didn’t see this coming. Among other things, it will certainly deepen the rift between the Russophiles in the Administration—notably the Leninist Bannon, Tillerson, and whoever Flynn’s acolytes are—and those evil globalist (Jewishcoughcough) financial guys like Kushner and Munchkin.

Unless this is kabuki designed to distract, it also won’t please that guy in Moscow.

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