I can’t share the details on how Waltz & Sec, Rubio have, in just a few days, organized the greatest opposition to UN policy since the Cold War and blocked this UN Carbon Tax. - Clarice Feldman

I can say it was a knife fight to the end. - John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad

“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today. 

• “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”
• It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.

Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero. 

• Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this…
• And yet Trump did it...

Promises made. Promises kept!