Russia continues to launch rocket attacks on Ukraine cities as it targets critical infrastructure. Energy facilities and defense factories have been recent targets of the Russian military as it tries to reverse a string of setbacks in the war, including a forced retreat from Kherson in southern Ukraine.
As Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan warns, winter is coming. He says Moscow aims to cripple Ukraine infrastructure and cause blackouts and gas shortages as brutual weather encroaches.
Excerpted from Peter’s Nov. 25 “Zeihan on Geopolitics” newsletter:
The tides of war are beginning to shift in favor of the Ukrainians, so the Russians are resorting to attacking the very infrastructure that enables Ukraine to function as a country. This means water and power are being targeted at a time when Ukraine needs them most.If Ukrainians can’t function as a society, then they can’t fight a war, which is a roundabout way of saying that there is a whole lot of human suffering coming. MedShare has a fund explicitly dedicated to helping Ukrainians, providing these communities with much needed medical care and attention.This is why I chose MedShare as the charity to which all of my book sales for the remainder of the year will be donated. Please consider purchasing a book or donating below.
But to give you an idea of what you’re getting into, the first book is here is “The Accidental Superpower.” This one’s now 10 years old, but it is the first major publication that called for the inevitability of a Russian assault on Ukraine and the why and the how and the where. So solid starting point.
Next up is “The Absent Superpower.” While this is majority an energy book, there is an entire section in it called Russia’s Twilight War, which talks about why the Russians are doing what they’re doing right now. And why Ukraine is really only the first step in a multi-step military operation. Big fat section on specifically what’s going on now in energy markets and what you should expect as the Russian energy output simply falls off the market altogether.
Third up, get a little bit more recent here, this one’s only three years old. This is “Disunited Nations.” There’s a big fat chapter in here on Russia specifically, and explains why the Russians are going to make one last grand grand for Empire before the whole system falls apart on them.
And then finally, most recently coming out in June, “The End of the World is Just the Beginning.” Where the others are the rise and fall of great nations kind of books, this one’s more on the economic after-effects. So in the aftermath of the Ukraine war, what happens to global energy? In the aftermath of a Chinese collapse, what happens to global manufacturing and transport?
Anyway, all sales, all four books until at least the end of the year, I think I’m supposed to say here that they all make great stocking stuffers but I think it’s more accurate to say that these are more “I told you so” books. If you’re gonna give them as a gift, so keep that in mind. There’s going to be pushed back.
