The next time Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits President Putin in the Kremlin, he should ask his former buddy something that's bothered me for years: what are the Russians up to in attempting to sabotage our energy industry? First, let's understand that energy has always been used as a political tool, even by Washington. During the mid-1980s, at the request of President Reagan, the Saudis ramped up their oil production to over 10 million barrels per day, causing the price to crash to below $10. The singular goal was to wreck the already tottering Soviet economy, which has always been dependent on oil revenues.
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