The Treaty
For four years Putin projected nothing but confidence. This weekend that cracked: he admitted Russia faces a fuel deficit as Ukrainian drones torched yet...
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Ukraine War
A day after Putin went on Russian television to reject Ukraine's proposed halt to long-range strikes and declare he would press on until Russia...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz carries far more than oil — helium for semiconductors, fertilizer, petrochemical feedstocks, a third of the world's farm goods. With...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Oil prices have fallen back to where they sat before the Iran war, and tankers are streaming out of the Strait of Hormuz —...
Ukraine War
Putin conceded Russia is facing a fuel "deficit" — a quiet admission of how badly Ukraine's long-range strikes have hurt the country, with refining...
Ukraine War
Putin finally admitted Ukraine's drones are behind Russia's fuel crisis — three weeks after his own energy ministry said exactly that.
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are moving through Hormuz again, crude has fallen below its prewar price, and the worst of the oil shock looks like it's passing....
Ukraine War
Russia is one of the planet's biggest oil producers. So why are drivers in Siberia and on the Pacific coast — thousands of miles...
Ukraine War
For nearly four years Putin insisted the drone strikes changed nothing. On Sunday he conceded the opposite: gas-station lines, a fuel deficit, a "difficult...