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Writing a book on the Russian economy is an act of self-harm, but a substack on Russia, America, the energy transition, a world gone mad? That's an act of healing.

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  1. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    A Farewell to Alms (opens the original)

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    There’s little reward for being right when few care what you say and you’ve mistimed the market of ideas. Much of the 2010s for us suffering Russianists was lost to Washington parlor games about a Russia resurgent. Yet amid all that static, Russia’s decline began precisely during its boom years, hastened then by its mistakes recovering from the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-2009. It’s worth revisiting this genealogy now that the failures of the war on Ukraine since 2022 have, finally, buried t

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