Seven Years After Putin’s Annexation of Crimea, America’s Energy Revolution Has Changed the Game
Putin’s stranglehold on global energy markets has loosened in the intervening years.
Putin’s stranglehold on global energy markets has loosened in the intervening years.
Israel has publicly tip-toed around Russia’s invasion. Since Russia crossed Ukraine’s border in late February, Jerusalem has studiously avoided blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin by name.
Russia rediscovered its imperial vocation before NATO enlargement, and the war in Ukraine is, in fact, about Putin’s great power ambitions.
As the world is distracted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and while President Joe Biden condemns Vladimir Putin on the world stage -- the U.S. is in talks with Kremlin negotiators to revive the agreement with the Islamic fundamentalist leaders of Iran.
The only mention of Iran in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday was an unintentional one.