The production team at NewsX World are hard at work today and have just sent me the link to the interview we did a few hours ago. In my last brief essay on applying lipstick to pigs, I addressed one of the two segments of this interview, the one on Russia’s announced deal with India for expanding exports of thermal and coking coal. The topic of the second segment is shown above – evaluating the significance of Russia’s successful test of its nuclear powered missile that traveled 14,000 km to target but could in principle fly three or more times that distance. To my understanding, the Burevestnik gives Russia all the benefits of a space based attack missile while never actually going into orbit and never violating prohibitions on use of outer space for military purposes.
News X World: Putin unveils advanced Burevestnik missile capability
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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels. View all posts by gilbertdoctorow
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Global oil supply is quite inelastic in the short term, so any success in boycotting Russian oil (>10% of global exports) will cause a shortage, which will propel prices higher. Demand is also rather inelastic [estimated at -0.06].
That means Russia will realize much higher profits on the oil they do sell.
The world has only marginal capacity to produce extra oil.
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Higher oil prices/shortages would affect the entire global economy, particularly the most marginal populations, but also the US fuel prices.
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Putin was, then, wrong in his reaction to this new volley of sanctions, but in the inverse direction: he should have celebrated it openly, on the strength of the benefits it is going to provide to the Russian economy. I see. Let us hope Doctorow is taking notes, lol.
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…a modern Dr Strangelove has Slim Pickens leisurely set up, picnic style, riding the “storm bringer”, having a beer, ham sandwich, and online chats. I wonder if the missile can be returned to base for reuse? This would be useful for its application as reconnaissance vessel. No doubt Russia will be thinking of generation 2 already.
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…a modern Dr Strangelove has Slim Pickens leisurely set up, picnic style, riding the “storm bringer”, having a beer, ham sandwich, and online chats. I wonder if the missile can be returned to base for reuse? This would be useful for its application as reconnaissance vessel. No doubt Russia will be thinking of generation 2 already.
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