There are three main hypotheses explaining Donald Trump’s eagerness to please Vladimir Putin. The first is “conspiratorial”: that Putin has something over Trump, related perhaps to the Steele dossier, Trump’s real estate shenanigans, the KGB’s long-term efforts to cultivate Trump as a “Russian asset,” or maybe even the Epstein files (Trump and Putin do, after […]
Posts Tagged ‘fossil fuel politics’
The axis of oil
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged climate politics, Donald Trump, fossil fuel politics, petropolitics, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Vladimir Putin on August 19, 2025 | 1 Comment »
Klimat
Posted in Politics, tagged climate politics, fossil fuel politics, illiberalism, populism, Putinism, Russia, Thane Gustafson, Trumpism on July 10, 2022 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just posted a piece called “Understanding Russia” over at UKR-TAZ, in which I look at some proximate and deeper causes of continued Russian support for the invasion of Ukraine. It’s mainly a review of some recent literature. The part that may be of greatest interest to readers of Immanence is the concluding section, in […]