Rex Tillerson: a Secy of State appointment that would confirm Putin's US election win

[KatyBR]

Source: The Guardian

"If Rex Tillerson is nominated as the next secretary of state, it would confirm Vladimir Putin as one of the strategic victors of the US presidential election.
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While the other leading candidates for the job hold largely traditional and adversarial views on Russia, the outgoing chief executive of Exxon Mobil has a history of close business ties to Putin, who bestowed the Order of Friendship on Tillerson in 2013.
...The 64-year-old Texas oilman spent much of his career working on Russian deals, including a 2011 agreement giving Exxon Mobil access to the huge resources under the Russian Arctic in return for giving the giant state-owned Russian oil company, OAO Rosneft, the opportunity to invest in Exxon Mobil’s operations overseas.

Tillerson is also friends with the head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, a former interpreter who worked as chief of staff for Putin when he was deputy mayor in St Petersburg in the mid-1990s. Sechin, sometimes described as the second-most-powerful man in Russia, is now under US sanctions...

The 2011 Exxon-Rosneft agreement was frozen when sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2014, following the annexation of Crimea and covert military intervention in eastern Ukraine. Exxon Mobil estimated the sanctions cost it $1bn and Tillerson has argued strenuously for the measures to be lifted."

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/11/rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-trump-russia-putin


So CIA reports Russia hacked our election...Trump "refuses" to believe it...but picks Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil, a company w/oil partnership w/Russia and an outspoken critique of the U.S. embargo that would have been continued by Hillary Clinton if she were President? The President of Exxon Mobil, a company he has spent his entire career at, and which actively engaged in discrediting human origins of climate change decades before these issues were being openly addressed.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Putin's goal was to destroy our credibility in the world standing

I am pretty certain that the election of trump did that.