Soundwave said:
Follow the money.
Russia has massive oil interests that were crippled by sanctions from the US in response to the Crimea situation in Ukraine.
Exxon Mobil in particular had been hard hit as they had business contracts with the Russian government. The sanctions cost them $1 billion at least.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/02/27/heres-what-exxons-lost-from-russia-sanctions/#1d7214a856b3
They also have other significant interests in the Russian oil business. In fact I believe Exxon Mobil has technology, without this tech Russia can't actively drill oil properly in certain regions.
So, guess who Trump's pick for Secretary of State is? The president of Exxon Mobile (lol) who was given a "friendship" award by Putin.
It's fairly obvious and even transparent what happened here. And really it was a great investment on the Russian's part, those sanctions on Russia which could were crippling their economy are as good as gone now. Even if they paid a few hundred million or channelled the money into some of Trump's Russian business assets (which would be hard/impossible to trace), it's a slam dunk investment, because the return is far greater.
You can blame Clinton as much as you want for donor money, but enough with the "holier than thou" bullshit that Trump wasn't bought either. He was, just from different sources, and many of the same ones on top of that (don't tell me all those Goldman Sachs people just coincidentally got high level positions in Trump's cabinet).
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If you want to follow the money, maybe you should be unbiased, and realize that the war in Syria was started by the Saudi interests in the region to build a oil pipeline to Europe trough Syria, Turkey and in to Europe. And who helped the Saudis start that war? Obama and friends, one of those being H.Clinton. Everyone knows that she is in the same bed with the Saudis.
In the end, as a Europenian, I would rather see USA being friends with Russia and have a strong relationship, rather then seing USA continuing to support the the warmonger/terrorist supporter House of Saud/Saudi Arabia.
