Oil versus the US dollar. Secret workings of global markets. What is the biggest mistake made by empires? And why does Trump insist on lower oil prices?

Why does President Putin think the Americans are shooting themselves in the foot by destabilizing the global financial system?

Commodity markets have become battlefields of new hybrid wars. How do such confrontations usually end? What does it take for an energy war to evolve into an open conflict?

Our guest today is Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak.

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