Trump team eyes Lukoil deal while negotiating peace
It seems the road to peace might be paved with crude oil and some very familiar faces.
It turns out that when Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff head to Moscow to chat about the war, they aren't just talking borders. They are deep in negotiations over a massive Lukoil asset sale. The plan? Help Vladimir Putin show his people that business with the United States is still on, while potentially snagging some cheap energy assets for a group of Trump-friendly investors.
The guest list for this deal is a real trip. You have Todd Boehly, who just happened to donate a couple million to Trump’s political coffers, and a Qatar conglomerate run by guys who are already in business with Kushner and Ivanka Trump on a fancy resort in Albania. Even an Abu Dhabi fund that bought into the Trump family’s crypto venture is involved. They say there’s no conflict of interest here, just a lot of global deal-making.
Selling off sanctioned assets under the guise of lowering energy prices is certainly one way to define diplomacy.
Source: New York Times
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