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 ‘Vladimir Putin’
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 »
The fossil-fuel shakedown of Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged Big Oil, Donald Trump, fossil fuels, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on March 9, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
I highly recommend Antonia Juhasz’s Rolling Stone cover story “Is Trump’s ‘Minerals Deal’ a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?” In a Facebook post, Juhasz notes that Ukrainian president Zelensky “is on his way to Saudi Arabia next week, being forced into a corner by the unholy alliance of Putin and Trump and to sign an ‘extortionist’ ‘neocolonial […]
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