In the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the bargain.
On April 22, Cyprus-based Burisma announced that financier Devon Archer had joined its board. Archer, who shared a room in college with Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, served as national finance co-chair for the former senator’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Then, on Monday, the firm announced that Biden’s younger son, R. Hunter Biden, would join the board of directors.
Why would the company, which bills itself as Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, need such powerful friends in Washington?
The answer might be the company’s holdings in Ukraine. They include, according to the firm’s website, permits to explore in the Dnieper-Donets Basin in the country’s eastern regions, home to an armed pro-Russian separatist movement. They also include permits to explore in the Azov-Kuban Basin of the strategic Crimean peninsula, annexed earlier this year by Moscow.
Every move we make, every risk we take and every government we illegally overthrow is undertaken for oil and gas. The fascist pro-Western government in Kiev cut off the water supply to Crimea yesterday. What a lovely bunch of murderers they are. Speaking of murderers, overthrowing governments and Big Oil, there’s Libya. The CIA got that “grass roots” insurrection going as well. Do some research on Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar. This guy’s been living in DC, 5 miles from CIA headquarters since 1986 when CIA Director Bill Casey brought him into this country. Obama is an even bigger warmonger than Bush ever thought of being. And a bigger liar.
Oh. wow. Just … wow.
I guess, now that I’ve heard about this, the main thing that surprises me is they’d be so blatant about it. The US keeps trying to pretend it’s an “honest broker” in the Ukraine mess. There went all their plausible deniability.