Russia’s Vulnerability to EU – US Sanctions and Military Encroachments
Image: Four oligarchs very close to Putin: Guennadi Timtchenko, Iouri Kovaltchouk, Igor Setchine and Arkady Rotenberg (Image credit: voltairenet.org)
The restoration of Russian power engineered by Vladimir Putin is compromised by the economic war waged against him by the United States and the European Union. Western aggression, observes Professor James Petras, will compel Russia to either eliminate the oligarchs on whom it has relied so far or die.