Category: Economics/Class Relations

Russia’s Pipeline Gambit

By Peter Zeihan on March 24, 2022 A mix of punitive sanctions and market forces is working to keep Russian energy exports out of global refineries and power plants, and ultimately in the ground as Moscow will have fewer markets willing (or able) to take deliveries. Russia’s network of […]

Russian Oil’s Vanishing Act

By Peter Zeihan on March 22, 2022 We are awash in news reports that the Europeans are poised to follow the US in banning all Russian Energy imports. Let me repeat: the Europeans are reportedly getting ready to ban imports from their largest supplier of crude oil, natural gas, […]

The End of Russian Oil

By Peter Zeihan on March 18, 2022 This newsletter is an adapted excerpt from Peter’s upcoming book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning. Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big […]

The End of Russian Finance

By Peter Zeihan on March 17, 2022 Apologies to all for having not written much in the past three weeks. The Ukraine War has been unfolding with such unforgiving speed and complexity that I’ve just not had time. While the pace hasn’t exactly slowed, the conflict is setting into […]