re: #39 Jay C

And in yet another fun twist: the article says that that gas field Total (French) and the Chinese are going to be developing is shared between Iran and Qatar. So a slap at Trump AND the Saudis.

According to French news report (it is a bigger story here), the CEO of Total had waited since the US election to see how this might impact their overall relationship with the US, and it’s only recently that they “wrote off” Trump entirely and decided to damn the torpedoes & go ahead. Like Merkel & many others, they concluded they could no longer deal with the US Government, under Trump, that is. I bet Tillerson’s former pals aren’t to happy about this either.