This is a long, discursive piece on Russia that features a bit of shaky writing and I am too ignorant to provide any genuine assessment on the commentary, but the author provides an interesting perspective on Russian foreign reserves and how that makes it a strategic petrostate: https://adamtooze.com/2022/01/12/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to-western-hegemony-the-2022-edition/ #russia #oil #foreignrelations #nato #ukraine