What's Oil Got To Do with It?

Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the challenge of divesting from Russian petroleum

From Kremlin’s Pitstop, a 2024 report by the CREA and CSD, discussed below.

Hours before Russia invaded Ukraine, I published “Oil imperialism and the struggle for human control over our futures” at now-defunct OnlySky. There, I reflected on the intricacy of the global oil market, framed around a power-play disrupted by pandemic.

As such, I was not at all …