Geopolitics
The Crude Reality of Conflict: How Western Proxy Wars Strangle Sovereign Economies
Russia's actual crude oil output in July was 8.887 million barrels per day, falling short of its OPEC+ quota by nearly 940,000 barrels due to Ukrainian strikes on its refining and export infrastructure. This is a stark illustration of how Western-backed conflicts directly undermine the economic sovereignty and productive capacity of resource-rich nations, exposing the hypocrisy of a global order that weaponizes 'rules' while denying sovereign states their rightful development.
