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Russia Benefiting from Oil Market Turmoil
An interesting couple of posts from Southfront.org this week gives us some insight as to what’s happening in international oil markets. Demand for Russian Urals grade oil is so strong that is has been trading at a pretty steep premium to Brent Crude this month. Southfront references this report from Argus research. This means that the Russian Urals crude is trading at a → Read More
Russia Is Going to Be an Investment Safe-Haven in the Inflationary Post-COVID World
Russia is going to be a destination for safe-haven flows in the post-COVID-19 world. It will be due to its vast savings, prudent fiscal policy and maneuver room available in monetary policy. The biggest reason, however, for why I think Russia looks attractive to foreign investors is simply because of its political stability. Putin deftly proposed to devolve power out of the → Read More
In Crashing the Oil Price, Russia Just Told the World, 'No!'
There is real power in the word “No.” In fact, I’d argue that it is the single most powerful word in any language. In the midst of the worst market meltdown in a dozen years which has at its source problems within global dollar-funding markets, Russia found itself in the position to exercise the Power of No. Multiple overlapping crises are happening worldwide right now and → Read More
Erdogan Is in Serious Political Trouble at Home, and Outside Turkey
“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Prometheus” It looks like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is headed for the political gallows a lot quicker than I ever thought. His offensive in Idlib has bogged down. And a day before he’s scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Erdogan Turkish parliament degrades → Read More
Rotten Heart of Europe: Germany Will Be the Epicenter of Europe's Coming Political Crisis
The crisis in Europe will come from Germany. Germany has entered a period of political crisis that, as yet, has not exploded. But the pyre is built, the torches lit and all that remains is dragging Chancellor Angela Merkel up and setting the whole thing on fire. → Read More
Russia Is a Haven for Contrarian Investors Because It Has Made Itself Financially 'Bulletproof'
Tom is a regular contributor not only here at Russia Insider but also at Seeking Alpha and Newsmax. → Read More
Globalist Managerial Class Losing Grip on Peasants. Mass Upheaval Inevitable
There’s something happening that the unelected oligarchs I like to call The Davos Crowd hate more than anything else. They can’t seem to buy people off anymore... → Read More
Game Over, Neocons: A Stable Middle East at Last, Thanks to Putin
Peace in the Middle East is coming at us fast and we’re going to have Russian President Vladimir Putin to thank for it. The howls of agony coming from U.S. and European foreign policy centers are deafening. Pat Buchanan lists them in his latest article which asks if Putin is now the new king of the Middle East. → Read More
The Empire Strikes Back: Bitcoin Crashes, Dems Threaten Impeachment, Banks Gorge on Fed Cash
“I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further.” Darth Vader, “The Empire Strikes Back” You know I think there are no coincidences in politics. Everything happens on a particular schedule. So when I see a day as crazy as today I have to ask the question, “Why this, why now?” Look at the headlines and you’ll see what I’m talking about. All of these things happened → Read More
Will the Multi-Polar World Be Backed by Gold?
It’s not news that China and Russia have been buying gold by the hundreds of tonnes. It’s not news that Russia divested itself of most of its U.S. Treasury holdings last year in response to Donald Trump’s sanctions on Rusal, upsetting the global Aluminum market. → Read More
On the Importance of Being Anti-War
Tom is a regular contributor not only here at Russia Insider but also at Seeking Alpha and Newsmax. → Read More
Sanctions Are a Bitch – U.S. Refiners Importing Russian Oil Like Mad
It’s a headline so funny I literally ruined a keyboard spitting out my coffee yesterday. → Read More
5 Years After Crimea, European Nations Come Crawling Back to Putin One by One
Europe is finally coming to its senses five years after the coup in Kiev started what is now the new Cold War between Russia and the West. The first part of Russia’s win comes from Italian leader Matteo Salvini. Speaking for the under-represented in European politics, Salvini declared this week, “I continue to believe that we don’t need sanctions. The issue of their removal → Read More
From False Hope to False Flags, Trump Sets the Stage for Global War
At this point Trump is fighting a war with everyone not named Israel and Saudi Arabia. Even allies are not to be spared Trump’s wrath for all of their slights against his beloved United States. In the greatest television series of the 1990’s, Babylon 5, one of the main characters, Londo, a weak and venal man, makes a deal with the devil and unleashes his dying empire’s worst → Read More
Clown World: John Bolton, Democrat Hacks, Theresa May Pushing World Closer to Total Insanity
Today is Star Wars Day, right? May the 4th and all that. Maybe I’m a little old to be celebrating a movie, but whatever. As I reviewed the events of the past week it reminded me that Star Wars, at its core, is about the pivotal moments in history and the changing from one political order to another. → Read More
Venezuela: The Unthinking Machine of US Imperialism Wrecks Another Country
When the U.S. surprised the world by electing Donald Trump president many of us understood what it truly meant. “MAGA Bitchez!” was all I could say for at least a week. It was such a glorious event. It was a giant ‘two-fingers up’ to the globalist establishment and endemic corruption of not just our government but of our society. We hoped it would signal a fundamental shift in → Read More
North Koreans Outmaneuver US; Kim Invites Russia to Help Him Deal With Trump
The summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un is over. And their message was clear. The U.S. is welcome at the negotiating table but they are not necessary to resolving the situation. Russia, however, is. Kim went to Vladivostok to build a relationship with Putin and put the U.S. on the spot. Per Putin’s comments after the summit: → Read More
Notre Dame Burns, and Western Civilization With It
Like many I was horrified on so many levels by the news of the fire which engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The thing that makes me truly sad is that my first reaction to the news wasn’t basic human safety concerns. My first reaction was to jump to the political ramifications and ask cui bono? Who benefits from this? → Read More
Assange Arrested, Brexit Squashed — Just Another Day in the Empire
And down goes Julian Assange, right beside Brexit. If there was ever any doubt that The Powers That Be are unrelenting in their cruelty just look at the 24 hours starting on Wednesday. First Theresa “The Snake Oil Lady” May kicks 17.4 million voters into the weeds. → Read More
Salvini Is Gearing Up for Confrontation With Eurocrats
Italy’s Matteo Salvini is riding high right now. Having weathered a couple of cheap legal moves to derail his assault on the European Parliament this May, Salvini is working to galvanize Euroskepticism across the continent into a viable political force. He’s got his work cut out for himself. → Read More