[temp667]

It seems very unlikely that Exxon can be sued by folks living overseas in US courts for things govt members (members of their military) were involved in to benefit exxon, or am I not following this?

China clears and relocates folks all the time, I've never heard of those folks being able to sue in the US even if the removals benefit a US company.

[schoen]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute (it's a complicated issue, and people are still arguing over the circumstances when this can apply). (It was narrowed quite a lot in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiobel_v._Royal_Dutch_Petroleu...)