Thread by @DenbrotS

THREAD
MSM Misses Story—
Putin/Trump Conspired To Circumvent Sanctions For Ukraine Invasion& Magnitsky
Pushed Qatar out of Arab Alliance into Putin’s arms—Leads to:
•19.5% of Rosneft sold
•Gazprom gets Qatar contract
•Pipeline to Germany
•Ru,Iran, Syria Alliance
•Warm Port

Trump Sabotages His New Middle East Alliance
“..in a series of startling& undiplomatic tweets,Trump threw the leader of oil-rich Qatar under the diplomatic bus.
..no country in Middle East has provided more pivotal military space to the U.S. than Qatar.”
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

3) Qatar's big oil deal with Moscow
The $11bn deal has forced open the Kremlin's door
“The deal was a warmly welcomed early Christmas present for Russia, which has been struggling to find a suitable partner for the privatisation of Rosneft for some time.”
alaraby.co.uk/english/amp/in…

4) “Moscow badly needed to narrow a budget gap resulting from low oil prices
.. Moreover, the deal has symbolic political connotations for Russia, demonstratinganother Russian foreign policy success in breaking the chains of West-imposed sanctions.”

5) “the Rosneft deal shows "the fact that there are some forces in the world that are ready to help Russia to circumvent the sanction regime".

6) "It means that Moscow has the opportunity to be some sort of mediator between the Arab states and Iran in the future. That's good politics,”

7) “The relationship with the QIA will help Rosneft with its LNG expansion and, possibly, also allow the Russian giant to diversify geographically into more oil and gas projects in the Middle East and elsewhere.”

8) “Gazprom is currently working with Germany to construct the next phase of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and with Turkey to build the Turkish Stream pipe to southern Europe.”

9) Dispute Between Saudi Group And Qatar Opens A Vast Swamp For Lobbyists In D.C.
Six of those firms are now heading up the Saudi offensive Qorvis MSLGROUP, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, CGCN Group, Glover Park Group, Hogan Lovells and McKeon Group.
politico.eu/article/lobbyi…

10) Russian gas pipelines to go ahead despite U.S. sanctions.
Trump said he did not want the sanctions to get in the way of efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine
google.com/amp/s/mobile.r…

11) Trump’s Plan To Leave Syria Completes Putins’s Military And Commercial Planning To Reestablish Russia’s Prominence, All Without Imposition Of Sanctions Ordered By Congress.
m.gulfnews.com/amp/opinion/th…