By Anna Mikulska
Rice University 

What makes Putin's vision of a Russian-US oil alliance a pipedream

 


(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)

(THE CONVERSATION) When Russian leader Vladimir Putin addressed the media in Helsinki alongside President Donald Trump, he proposed that their countries “work together” to make oil and gas markets calmer.

Trump didn’t say whether he supported the idea but he repeated his frequent assertion that Russia and the U.S. are competitors, adding, “I think the word competitor is a compliment.”

As a scholar of global energy geopolitics, I can see why Putin might want to forge an...



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