Tag Archives: Middle East

Syria as Russia’s Oil Price Tool

As featured on The Huffington Post: The opening paragraph in the Financial Times‘ May 31, 2013 review of Thane Gustafson’s history of the Russian oil industry, Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia, says it all: In no other big economy do oil and gas play such a vital role as in Russia. They account…
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Russian Arms, Syria and the Price of Oil

As featured on The Huffington Post: President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in a broadcast this Thursday past, boasted of the Russian arms deliveries to the Syrian regime that would include deliveries of a highly advanced anti-aircraft weapons system. Whether accurate or not, the Russians are clearly stoking the fires of the Syrian debacle and now…
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