Liam Denning, Columnist

Elements: Putin, Natural Gas and Democracy

In his energy war with the nations backing Ukraine, Vladimir Putin can take advantage of a defining strength of the West: democracy.

July 25, 2022 at 11:14 AM UTC

By Liam Denning

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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An aficionado of judo, Russian President Vladimir Putin likes to turn his opponents’ strengths against them. In his energy war with the nations backing Ukraine, he can take advantage of a defining strength of the West: democracy.