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I’m a firm believer of adverse publicity...
All of the adverse publicity from Western Europe and the US never hurt the Ayatollahs of Iran. Likewise Maduro, who is such a wonderful president for big oil, is effectively supported by all of the fake stories that the US and EU want to get rid of him!

Just for the record – I’M NO SUPPORTER OF BIG OIL.
Who profits?

Longtime Rothschild banker and Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross first invested in Navigator Holdings in 2011. In the summer of 2012, WL Ross took control of Navigator by buying a further $110 million stake from the collapsed Lehman Brothers bank. Navigator Holdings earns millions a year transporting oil and gas for the Russian Sibur.
Putin’s son-in-law Shamalov holds a large stake in Sibur and is its deputy chairman.

In 2016, 31.5% was still held by entities in which Ross has a stake (WLR). In 2017, the WLR stake in Navigator was worth about $179 million, but it is not clear how much is (still) held by Ross personally.

Navigator vessels also carried out extensive business with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, records show, at a time when Venezuela’s government was cracking down on opposition. Trump imposed sanctions on PDVSA in August: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/trump-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-business-links-putin-family-paradise-papers

Sibur is NOT under Russian sanctions which gives it a competitive edge over companies that are: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions-factbox/russian-businessmen-officials-on-new-u-s-sanctions-list-idUSKCN1HD22K