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ExxonMobile in talks with Russia

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According to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal (paywall) ExxonMobil is working a deal with Russia to re-open the Sakhalin-1 project on Russia’s far east coast.  Putin signed a decree on August 15 allowing foreign companies to own shares in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project.  ExxonMobil was the only non-Russian company to have quit its stake in the project when the Russia-Ukraine war began.

Big Carbon gave massively to Republicans during the election.  Now that we know that LYIN’ DON is going to pay back his big carbon puppeteers with Russian oil, we can conclude that some kind of deal on the war is in the offing.  Who knows how much the Ukrainians will have to give up.

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