so it s literately hard to get into. t. this is a picture that ran in the new yorker today that i think is supposed to be the front of the building. susan saw me reading this article and laughed out loud when i got to this page. she thought from across the room i was locking at dirty pictures. it does have a certain something, come on. the building i have to say whatever you think this looks like, itten doesn t make sense for a a bunch of reasons. not just because there s no way to get there, there s no way to get to it and it s kind of hilarious looking from the front, but lock at this. we marked on this map with the red arrow that s where the fancy hotels are in the capital. right on the sea. the other building we just owed y with the onramps and off ramps is not where all the other hotels are. it s over there. and what s described as not a particularly good neighborhood,
between russia on the top and giant iran on the bottom. this country called small country, it s about the size much ireland. it s a former soviet state run by a dictator. now they have got oil money, that s always a good combination. the new oil money doesn t of course mean that the people of that country are no better off. it never works that way under a dictator. and in the case though, they re oil wealth resulted in them doing a lot of building. they ve built a whole bunch of stuff, particularly in their capital city of vacoup. big showoffy buildings, in particular for government enci. and in 2007, the transportation minister he had what could
this little country, flushed with oil money. he met with the senior vice president of becktell. to talk about the prosecute of becktelecoming to the area and building roads all over that country. big projects. lots of roads, they ve got money to spend, that s part what have they want to send it on. becktell totally could have done that. they ve done it all over the world. but that meeting happened in april 2007. and they made no deal. and part of the reason we know how that meeting went is because of wikileaks. the american ambassador in that country cabled home to the state department to explain what happened with that meeting. from the big american company coming to talk about a big infrastructure deal with this transportation minister. she explained that the quote pressed the senior vice president on a typical price for any proposed becktell road project. after extensive caveats, a
location. let me show you how weird the location was. the president s daughter was on a business trip. they had a trump building project. she posted this video showing how awesome the view was from her hotel rom. a very long flight, but i m here. check it out. the view from my balcony. the flame towers. and the cast pea yan sea. that is a lovely view there next to the sea. that s nowhere near the building she s there to work on. that s not where the trump tower was going. we think she s at the four seasons. which is five kilometers away and an hour s walk from where the trump building was going up near the town. this building in this random neighborhood is a business
it s over by an extensive field of rail yards. it s a about an hour s walk from any other well off western tourist might be expected to stay in this town. it s weird for a a luxury building. until december, this past december where the upper right arrow is, that weird building you can t get sbo next to the rail yards was supposed to be the site of the new trump tower. away from everything nels this the capital city. if you have never been there, you might find it hard to picture what s weird about the location. let me show you how weird the location was. the president s daughter was on a business trip. they had a trump building project. she posted this video showing how awesome the view was from her hotel rom. a very long flight, but i m here. check it out.