How Commodity Speculators Drove War in Ukraine
In London and New York, the spectacularly wealthy gamble on the price of commodities — and, in the process, provide petrostate autocrats like Vladimir Putin with the resources to wage war.
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Rupert Russell
Rupert Russell is a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World (Penguin RandomHouse, 2022).