Austin Bay: The Ukraine War is also a blood-for-oil war

Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is a desperate bid to assemble a 21st-century Russian Empire. It is also an oil war — or more accurately, a war to steal Ukraine’s energy reserves. The czarist and Soviet communist Russian empires were largely self-sufficient entities possessing the resources and millions of people required to field powerful military […]

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