China And Saudi Arabia Intensify Energy Cooperation With Critical Deal
How China rescued bin Salman and leveraged that relationship into a deal that advances China’s aim of making the kingdom a client state.
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Oil Markets Could Face A Doomsday Scenario This Week
How will oil markets react if they get confirmation that OPEC+ has no spare production capacity?
Read more...Pursuing India’s Multi-Aligned Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World: Time for a Sister Souljah Moment?
Offensive comments by BJP officials have sparked diplomatic condemnation, at potential cost to India’s foreign policy of multi-alignment.
Read more...Why Saudi Arabia Isn’t Giving Up On Its Russian Oil Alliance
Why Saudi Arabia is still not playing nice with the US.
Read more...Blowback for the Twenty-First Century, Remembering Chalmers Johnson
visiting Chalmer Johnson’s over 20 year old classic, Blowback, which dishearteningly has become if anything more prophetic as time passes.
Read more...Biden Kowtows To Saudi Arabia
A scheduled Biden in-person meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a sign of desperation.
Read more...Ukraine Latest: More Shortages; Misunderstanding Russian Strategy?
Some brief Ukraine sightings.
Read more...The World Is Facing A Critical Diesel Shortage
An oil price drop gives an illusory sense of relief from an ongoing and set to worsen diesel squeeze.
Read more...New Cold War: Arsenal of Democracy or Simply an Arsenal?
The new Cold War as the gift that keeps giving to America’s arms merchants.
Read more...Ukraine: How the Global Fertilizer Shortage Is Going to Affect Food
A detailed looks at fertilizer production and economics, and the impact the war in Ukraine migtht have on supplies.
Read more...Russia Sanctions Trade Shock: Fulfilling the Fears of Smoot-Hawley?
More on the possiblity of severe blowback from sanctions against Russia in the form of trade disruption.
Read more...America Shoots Its Own Dollar Empire in Economic Attack on Russia
The US is gambling with its superpower status by putting its dollar hegemony in play to hurt the Russian economy.
Read more...Russia’s Economic War Front, The New Tributary System & The Russian Kowtow
A look at economic sanction options for Russia.
Read more...Reader Apologies re Highlighting Out of Date Scott Ritter Video; Wall Street Buys Russian Bonds, MbS Snubs US Investments, Biden Tries to Arm-Twist India, and Putin Can Still Blow the Peace
Some updates on Ukraine, including having gotten caught in the fog of misinformation.
Read more...Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Highlights America’s Fading Geopolitical Influence
Why Russia is not as isolated as the US press would have you believe. The US has wrongfooted some recent dealing with influential countries.
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