Trump Finally Acknowledges Russia Role in US Election Hacking; Russia Needs ExxonMobil Technology So Badly?

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Reuters reported that (finally) “Trump acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking: aide” Sun, 08 Jan 2017. He actually asked Russia to hack last July, or implied that they had done so (video-text further below). Had he forgotten so quickly?

The big mystery in this alleged hacking story is why does Russia need ExxonMobil’s technology so desperately that they would hack to help get Trump in, apparently so that sanctions would be dropped? Why can’t Russia figure out oil and gas technologies on their own, after all of this time? Perhaps if they would spend time on developing their own technologies in oil and gas, or preferably renewables, rather than hacking, then the technology sanctions would not matter. Or are their elites feeling the pinch of sanctions in other ways? Banking? Luxury goods? Why does Russia, which seems so reliant on the oil and gas industry, continue to…

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