Doug Brunt: “They Are Obsessed with Crimea” – Russia Oil History Unlocks Putin

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]There's a lot of talk about the Ukraine war. You get a sense for what his ambition is or where it comes from and how it connects to the era that you were studying. Yeah, it's it's from the earliest days. You know, Peter the Great in the early 1700s was trying to get down to the Black Sea where they have warm water ports and the Black Sea can connect through the straight you know, right by Constantinople or Istanbul, Turkey and out to the Mediterranean and and you you know, can reach the rest of the world that way. They're obsessed with Crimea, which is the northern part of the Black Sea and we see that now in in the early parts of this book, Joseph Stalin is born in the country of Georgia, which is between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. And so he had a front row seat to this oil empire taking root. The Nobels were the leading oil magnets, but also the Rothschild family had a large presence in Southern Russia.

[00:00:49]So as he's got his sights on the you know, quote unquote capitalist pigs that he wants to take out, the Nobels are front and center.