[lbo-talk] Kemp & Edwards agree - time to get tuff with Russia

[Steven L. Robinson]

Russia is a bigger player in natural gas than in oil and  given the dependency of Europe on  Russian supplies, a collapse of that fuel hardly seems likely.

 Nonetheless the fundamental weakness and irony is that  after all of these generations of attempts to industrialize Russia, it still remains an extractive economy. SR

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From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 


> 
> And how much of this is the result of $75 oil? Were oil to collapse 
> like it did in 1986, what would happen to Russia? 
> 
> Doug 
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