Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, reputedly one of the few people whom Vladimir Putin listens to, gave an interview to Izvestiya prior to the May 9, Victory Day celebrations.[1] The interview was harshly critical of the West for whitewashing fascism and Nazism that it had previously enabled. NATO's eastward expansion, Patrushev charged, followed the
own company, and make rosneft with its kremlin ownership the biggest company on earth, that guy is putin s best friend. they worked together in the intelligence services back in the soviet day. they call him putin s shadow because in way too many pictures there s putin, then he s the only guy right there next to him. in this picture, he s the guy standing to putin s left in this same picture, if you look at the other side of it, the guy to putin s right who is shaking his hand, that s the ceo of exxonmobil who is donald trump s nominee to be secretary of state. here they are again. trump s pick for secretary of state and putin s shadow. this time without putin because sometimes it s fun hanging out alone. our secretary of state nominee rex tillerson, he knows the head of rosneft. he knows him very well. he signed a ginormous half trillion dollar deal with him to drill the arctic. that got cut short when russia invaded ukraine and annexed part of ukraine and the u.s.
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as it happens, dictatorships and authoritarian regimes can offer that kind of stability if they re not built on a tinderbox. exxon mobil s official approach to this is what you saw in that footage in russia. they follow what used to be called the prime directive. we re here to get the oil out of the ground, we ll take our part, you ll take your part, and the rest of it really is not our business. as he said, sanctions are a question for government. that has been the way exxon mobil has lived in the world, and for a leader who spent four years at the corporation, grew up there shaped his ideas there, then spent ten years as the leader of the corporation to now start approaching those kinds of environments with the values of the universal human rights and defense of free societies against dictators and the
it happened with all the giant russian-state-owned properties, to suck all the assets out of the grounds and out of the mountains. it came out from the pockets of the russians and went to these people. all the assets of the russian people out the window sold on a fraction of a penny on the dollar to the guys who riggeded the system so they could buy everything for cheap. and boris yeltsin did get the cash he needed for his government which was not that much in the grand scheme of things, but he was able to spend money the way he needed to to get himself re-elected in 1996. kind of a pyrrhic victory, in part because the privatization, particularly the luridly corrupt privatization that he oversaw obviously just gutted his own country. and then the universe has a way of the taking care of these things. right after he got re-elected yeltsin had a massive heart surgery. he spent most of his second term in office in and out of the