Not So Much “Draining the Swamp” as “Filling the Swamp Full of Crude Oil So Nothing Ever Lives There Again”

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  1. Little is known about where he stands on foreign policy, and as secretary of state, he would have to hit the ground running on major issues. Among them: handling the nuclear agreement with Iran that the Obama administration made in 2015; the sanctions imposed on Russia; disputes with China and North Korea; the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria; and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq.

    Yeah, this will turn out well…

    /FFS

    1. How fucked are we? This fucked:

      Tillerson won the battle to succeed Exxon's past CEO Lee Raymond, who famously declared, "I'm not a U.S. company and I don't make decisions based on what's good for the U.S.," according to Private Empire. Tillerson inherited a company with a vast security force totaling thousands of employees, direct channels with governments worldwide and a strong aversion to American sanctions or limitations on where Exxon could operate.
      – AP

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