Alliances sometimes begin by accident. Sometimes they end that way, too.
Especially when President Donald Trump is involved.
In the fall of 2013, Fred H. Hutchison was hanging around a mixer at the Lithuanian Embassy, which sits inside the remaining tower of a partially demolished mansion a couple of miles north of the White House. After several decades as a gun-for-hire Washington lobbyist, Hutchison had forgotten more of these events than most people ever go to. But this one he remembers.
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Partway through the evening, Hutchison heard a diplomat grumbling about the United States’ jealous grip on its enormous newly tapped reserves of shale gas. They got to talking.
