Yeah, Qatar is our backchannel to some pretty vile people. But what’s funny is Tillerson is essentially a member of the Qatar royal family and apparently Trump had no clue that while we were at war in Iraq XOM was in Qatar creating an LNG export industry that would make Qatar wealthy beyond its wildest dreams. And then Trump changed US f…
Yeah, Qatar is our backchannel to some pretty vile people. But what’s funny is Tillerson is essentially a member of the Qatar royal family and apparently Trump had no clue that while we were at war in Iraq XOM was in Qatar creating an LNG export industry that would make Qatar wealthy beyond its wildest dreams. And then Trump changed US foreign policy with respect to Qatar to get a billion dollar payout from the Saudis…and then when Khalizad came up with the Afghanistan withdrawal plan Trump had to make nice with Qatar because they are our backchannel to the Taliban.
Trump thought POTUS was CEO, his personnel picks were a horror show until almost the last year of his term (scott miller seems ok, Michael Anton). His son in law... SMH.
Trump blew his Deep State side when he gave up Flynn, and everyone saw this guy runs in a fight. He did.
Runs mouth then runs away.
Trump did do a lot of good for us.
I don’t have a problem with us leaving Afghanistan, it was lost in 2003 when we said be democracy 🤣
I support Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal…but remember he campaigned on withdrawal and then actually escalated the war until the Doha Agreement.
This is hard to believe but Tillerson actually believed America was running out of natural gas…and so he invested XOM’s windfall profits into Qatar to export LNG to America. A Substacker that hates Biden and is in the energy industry admitted the American energy industry had no idea how we would get more energy production around 2005 other than investing in the Middle East. I don’t know if you followed the 2008 election but Palin’s big accomplishment as governor was greenlighting a natural gas pipeline…that was never built because of fracking in the lower 48 just like we never imported LNG from Qatar because of fracking.
The perhaps positive effect of over investment in energy is we CAN have not only an economic rebound but a world that doesn’t have to fight quite so much over energy. Can.
We’ll find something else to fight about. Human nature.
The notion North America had hit peak production was the conventional wisdom accepted by both Enron and Exxon…Exxon just has a much much more conservative approach to investment. I see FTX as pretty similar to Enron and Lehman Brothers—they all believed their primary assets could only increase in value and so once the bottom fell out of natural gas and housing prices and crypto they all ran into a liquidity crunch.
Yeah, Qatar is our backchannel to some pretty vile people. But what’s funny is Tillerson is essentially a member of the Qatar royal family and apparently Trump had no clue that while we were at war in Iraq XOM was in Qatar creating an LNG export industry that would make Qatar wealthy beyond its wildest dreams. And then Trump changed US foreign policy with respect to Qatar to get a billion dollar payout from the Saudis…and then when Khalizad came up with the Afghanistan withdrawal plan Trump had to make nice with Qatar because they are our backchannel to the Taliban.
I will check but believe it.
Trump thought POTUS was CEO, his personnel picks were a horror show until almost the last year of his term (scott miller seems ok, Michael Anton). His son in law... SMH.
Trump blew his Deep State side when he gave up Flynn, and everyone saw this guy runs in a fight. He did.
Runs mouth then runs away.
Trump did do a lot of good for us.
I don’t have a problem with us leaving Afghanistan, it was lost in 2003 when we said be democracy 🤣
I support Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal…but remember he campaigned on withdrawal and then actually escalated the war until the Doha Agreement.
This is hard to believe but Tillerson actually believed America was running out of natural gas…and so he invested XOM’s windfall profits into Qatar to export LNG to America. A Substacker that hates Biden and is in the energy industry admitted the American energy industry had no idea how we would get more energy production around 2005 other than investing in the Middle East. I don’t know if you followed the 2008 election but Palin’s big accomplishment as governor was greenlighting a natural gas pipeline…that was never built because of fracking in the lower 48 just like we never imported LNG from Qatar because of fracking.
The perhaps positive effect of over investment in energy is we CAN have not only an economic rebound but a world that doesn’t have to fight quite so much over energy. Can.
We’ll find something else to fight about. Human nature.
This very interesting.
That makes Tillerson ENRON level smart, which is run of the mill all too often.
The notion North America had hit peak production was the conventional wisdom accepted by both Enron and Exxon…Exxon just has a much much more conservative approach to investment. I see FTX as pretty similar to Enron and Lehman Brothers—they all believed their primary assets could only increase in value and so once the bottom fell out of natural gas and housing prices and crypto they all ran into a liquidity crunch.