America has a Putin obsession. And America has a Putin obsession not just because he’s tyrannical, murderous, bigoted, a control freak, by many accounts a deviant, someone who raided his country’s coffers to build lavish palaces and super yachts. America has people like that too.The reason America, or its leadership class, hates Putin so much is because he is the obstacle to the West’s control of what little fossil fuel sources and transmission routes are left. As I reported in 2014, Russian gas is still being bought up by Europe and Russian oil is still being used throughout the world. The reason the West is so adamant this strongman needs to go is so it can profit off of the remaining fossil fuel reserves Putin controls. The geopolitical strategy is to overthrow not necessarily Russia, but force Putin from power and install Western friendly leaders who will let Western companies make money off of natural gas and oil, build pipelines to supply Central Asia that the U.S. and Europe can get a cut from, and then control strategic territory and have strategic influence over Central Asia to block China from influencing the region. Putin has loyalists in the military and most oligarchs, but there are many Russian billionaires who’ve spent a lot of time in Britain and want a more open society and less domination of the rich by Putin and the FSB. So it’s the Davos friendly European interests that want to open Russia’s economy and get a foothold buffer against the East.

America has a Putin obsession. And America has a Putin obsession not just because he’s tyrannical, murderous, bigoted, a control freak, by many accounts a deviant, someone who raided his country’s coffers to build lavish palaces and super yachts. America has people like that too.The reason America, or its leadership class, hates Putin so much is because he is the obstacle to the West’s control of what little fossil fuel sources and transmission routes are left. As I reported in 2014, Russian gas is still being bought up by Europe and Russian oil is still being used throughout the world. The reason the West is so adamant this strongman needs to go is so it can profit off of the remaining fossil fuel reserves Putin controls. The geopolitical strategy is to overthrow not necessarily Russia, but force Putin from power and install Western friendly leaders who will let Western companies make money off of natural gas and oil, build pipelines to supply Central Asia that the U.S. and Europe can get a cut from, and then control strategic territory and have strategic influence over Central Asia to block China from influencing the region. Putin has loyalists in the military and most oligarchs, but there are many Russian billionaires who’ve spent a lot of time in Britain and want a more open society and less domination of the rich by Putin and the FSB. So it’s the Davos friendly European interests that want to open Russia’s economy and get a foothold buffer against the East.

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