Russia - Ukraine “peace negotiations”

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“…What the two leaders didn’t say: Behind closed doors, their countries’ biggest energy companies had already sketched out a road map to going back into business, pumping oil-and-gas fields off Russia’s far-east coast.

In secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company this year, a senior Exxon Mobil executive discussed returning to the massive Sakhalin project if the two governments gave the green light as part of a Ukraine peace process, said people familiar with the discussions.

Such is the sensitivity that only a handful of people at Exxon knew the talks had taken place. One of the U.S. oil major’s top executives, Senior Vice President Neil Chapman, led the talks on the Exxon side.

Under the Biden and Trump administrations, Exxon and other companies have had U.S. permission and licenses from the Treasury Department to hold talks about stranded assets with Russian counterparts, one of the people familiar with the discussions said. The first round of negotiations took place shortly after Exxon’s exit from Russia in 2022.

In parallel, Exxon executives have asked the U.S. government for support if the company goes back to Russia, and received a sympathetic hearing, said a senior administration official. CEO Darren Woods discussed Exxon’s possible return with Trump at the White House in recent weeks.

Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022. The West’s biggest oil producer dived deeper into Russia than most other companies after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its retreat after the invasion was correspondingly more acrimonious.…”
 


Someone close to Trump must be tracking how often his cabinet members and advisors promote him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
Bill Browder made an interesting point today. That it was obvious that Trump went into the Putin meeting determined to give Putin everything to get a deal. Including Ukrainian land. But Putin wouldn't take it. Because it ain't about land. Its about getting control of Ukraine.
 
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“… Instead, she became the latest casualty of a widening cull by Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, fueled at times by far-right activist Laura Loomer, targeting national security professionals whom they deem to have engaged in “politicization or weaponization of intelligence to advance personal, partisan, or non-objective agendas,” according to Gabbard’s Aug. 19 memo announcing the revocation at Trump’s direction of security clearances.…”

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