● The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America’s Grasp
by Marin Katusa
Interview with author via Yahoo Finance
“President Putin has clearly broken the [Sept. 5] truce agreement,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Bild newspaper but, thus far, traders don’t seem to care — perhaps pulling from the same playbook as earlier this year when Russia annexed Crimea.
But “the problem is going to get worse and it is going to get bloodier,” says Marin Katusa, chief energy strategist for Casey Research. “More importantly [Ukraine] is central to [Putin’s] theme of not only making Europe more dependent on Russian oil and natural gas but at the same time he is also expanding his output of energy to countries like China so he’s got a double-pronged approach.”
In his new book, The Colder War, Katusa examines Putin’s long-term strategy of returning Russia to global superpower status via strategic use of its primary weapon: Energy.
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