Yonatan Zunger is a blogger and activist with a following measured in the hundreds of thousands.
Yesterday he wrote a post ‘Trial Balloon for a Coup?Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours‘. Here is an excerpt and I encourage you to read the rest of the post.
“(6) Finally, I want to highlight a story that many people haven’t noticed. On Wednesday, Reuters reported (in great detail) how 19.5% of Rosneft, Russia’s state oil company, has been sold to parties unknown. This was done through a dizzying array of shell companies, so that the most that can be said with certainty now is that the money “paying” for it was originally loaned out to the shell layers by VTB (the government’s official bank), even though it’s highly unclear who, if anyone, would be paying that loan back; and the recipients have been traced as far as some Cayman Islands shell companies.
Why is this interesting? Because the much-maligned Steele Dossier (the one with the golden showers in it) included the statement that Putin had offered Trump 19% of Rosneft if he became president and removed sanctions. The reason this is so interesting is that the dossier said this in July, and the sale didn’t happen until early December. And 19.5% sounds an awful lot like “19% plus a brokerage commission.”
Conclusive? No. But it raises some very interesting questions for journalists to investigate.’
Now do read the rest -it is just as scary – especially since the Armed Forces have been removed from the Presidential Security Council (whatever it is officially called).
Is this the way Russia will win the Cold War?
(H/T to Lorraine Murphy)
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