I would add that what Venezuela has done using its oil wealth, to help free Central and South America, and the Caribbean, from the historical iron grip of the US empire, is a key example.
Here's an essay that goes into a deeper dive on the geopolitics of oil and natural gas.
Mapping The Escher-like Landscape Of United States Fossil Fuel Sanctions & How Oil & Natural Gas Fracking Became A Powerful US Lever For Global Control
That's a really good post, perfect followup. The same strategy of crashing energy prices was used against the USSR in the eighties. It's part of the foreign policy playbook now.
Petrocommunism is obviously a step beyond the current model of nationalized oil companies, but nationalization's better than the pre-1979 situation.
I would add that what Venezuela has done using its oil wealth, to help free Central and South America, and the Caribbean, from the historical iron grip of the US empire, is a key example.
Here's an essay that goes into a deeper dive on the geopolitics of oil and natural gas.
Mapping The Escher-like Landscape Of United States Fossil Fuel Sanctions & How Oil & Natural Gas Fracking Became A Powerful US Lever For Global Control
https://ericbrooks.substack.com/p/mapping-the-escher-like-landscape
That's a really good post, perfect followup. The same strategy of crashing energy prices was used against the USSR in the eighties. It's part of the foreign policy playbook now.
Petrocommunism is obviously a step beyond the current model of nationalized oil companies, but nationalization's better than the pre-1979 situation.