Russia's Use of the Energy Weapon: How Russia Manipulates Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic States
Journal: Scholarly Horizons University of Minnesota Morris Undergraduate Journal
Year: 2019

Russia’s stranglehold on oil and gas as a resource, and use of energy as a weapon is a long standing humanitarian crisis as shown by the cut off of oil exports to former Soviet Republics, in efforts to gain political and economic dependence, resulting in, as one example shows, electricity and heat suspensions of innocent citizens homes. Other concerted efforts of Moscow include control over export routes, the attempt to reinstate the Soviet Union, and the intimidation of the Western World. The S