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Found this to be very interesting. It's all starting to make sense. If you haven't already figured out that Trump isn't about making America great again, I have a few bridges to nowhere you might be interested in. If we get to the point of "I told you so!" ....it's already too late. Wake up !!
The piece below was written by Pat Banks Sr.
1) Trump owes money to Blackstone and Bayrock group. $560 million dollars is his debt to Bayrock Group (one of his largest debtors and the primary reason he won't reveal his tax returns).
2) Bayrock is owned wholly by Russian billionaires, who owe their position to Putin and have made billions from their work with the Russian government.
Blackstone is the largest Private Equity/Alternative Investment Firm in the world. In 2014, after expending vast resources/money in their work to develop their Russian portfolio, U.S. sanctions against Russia inhibited Blackstone's ability to conduct the business they sought, forcing Blackstone to suspend their efforts in Russia.
3) Other companies that have borrowed from Bayrock have claimed that owing money to them is like owing to the Russian mob and while you owe them, they own you for many favors.
4) The Russian economy is badly faltering under the weight of its over-dependence on raw materials which as you know have plummeted in the last 2 years leaving the Russian economy scrambling to pay its debts.
5) Russia has an impetus to influence our election to ensure the per barrel oil prices are above $65 ( they are currently hovering around $50)
6) Russia can't affordably get at 80% of its oil reserves and reduce its per barrel cost to compete with America at $45 or Saudi Arabia at $39. With Iranian sanctions being lifted Russia will find another inexpensive competitor increasing production and pushing Russia further down the list of suppliers.
As for Iranian sanctions, the 6 countries lifting them allowing Iran to collect on the billions it is owed for pumping oil but not being paid for it. These billions Iran can only get if the Iranian nuclear deal is signed. Trump spoke of ending the deals which would cause oil sales sanctions to be reimposed, which would make Russian oil more competitive.
7) Rex Tillerson (Trump's pick for Secretary of State) is the head of ExxonMobil, which is in possession of patented technology that could help Putin extract 45% more oil at a significant cost savings to Russia, helping Putin put money in the Russian coffers to help reconstitute its military and finally afford to mass produce the new and improved systems that it had invented before the Russian economy had slowed so much.
8) Putin cannot get access to these new cost saving technologies OR outside oil field development money, due to US sanctions on Russia, because of its involvement in Ukrainian civil war.
9) Look for Trump to end sanctions on Russia and to back out of the Iranian nuclear deal, to help Russia rebuild its economy, strengthen Putin and make Tillerson and Trump even richer, thus allowing Trump to satisfy his debts to Bayrock and Blackstone, while also allowing Blackstone to recommence its expansion into the Russian market.
10) With Trump's fabricated hatred of NATO and the U.N., the Russian military reconstituted, the threat to the Baltic states is real. Russia retaking their access to the Baltic Sea from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and threatening the shipping of millions of cubic feet of natural gas to lower Europe from Scandinavia, would allow Russia to make a good case for its oil and gas being piped into eastern Europe."
Sources: Time Magazine, NY Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian UK.