I hadn't seen that report, no, but I can't say I'm surprised. He's an oil man. His interests are oil and people involved with oil. Russia has oil. Where you see "russia" he sees "gazprom." I honestly don't know which is more virtuous at this point: resigning, knowing you don't know diplomacy but also knowing the next guy will be worse than you... or focus on what you know and get the fuckin' oil. I'm hopeful that the Nixon Tapes of the modern era will be a 2018 bloodbath. Everyone's all atwitter over the Italian elections because the "center-left" got their ass kicked without noticing that the guys who took the vote are most closely aligned with nihilism. That's what got Trump elected: anger, dissatisfaction and a desire to fuck shit up. From any reasonable perspective, "center left" is right-fuckin'-wing these days and without an actual leftist perspective to counteract the globalists it's no surprise that the winning political vote these days is "none of the above."