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Todd Royal

Todd Royal, M.P.P. is the Managing Partner for Energy development, Oil & Gas, and Renewables for Ascendance Strategies, a global threat assessment and political consulting firm that is based in Los Angeles, California

What Does Rosneft Have Planned for Venezuela’s PDVSA?

Presidents Maduro and Putin, cc Kremlin.ru, modified, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/18446,

There appears to be some kind of alliance between the energy giants in the works, but the extent and legal details remain murky.

Europe Failing to Save JCPOA as Tensions Boil over in Middle East

IranDeal, cc Kremlin.ru, modified, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59829

Is Europe is warming to ‘maximum pressure’?

Trump Was Right to Leave the Iran Nuclear Deal

Khamenei, cc Kremlin.ru modified, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50745,

The Obama-era Iran nuclear deal was flawed to its very core.

Geopolitical Risk on Energy Prices Overblown

Oil Derrick, cc Flickr Global Panorama, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Supply and demand – not geopolitical factors – will move oil prices through 2017.

Will Creditors Get Paid Back by Venezuela?

grungeflag, cc Flickr Nicolas Raymond, modified, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Amid economic collapse, the Venezuelan government is now forced to choose between repaying bonds or its oil-for-loans benefactors in China and Russia.

Current Geopolitics a Recipe for War

170116-A-KU062-519 US army, public domain, photo credit: Staff Sgt. Micah Vandyke

Geopolitical flashpoints are multiplying across several continents, and no one is stepping up to deal with them.

The World Needs Strength

munichagreement, Neville Chamberlain announces the Munich agreement, public domain.

Appeasement didn’t work in the 1930s, and it doesn’t work now.

Deterrence Works and We Need to Get It Back

170107-N-BL637-082 PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 07, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conducts a vertical replenishment-at-sea with the “Black Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 and fleet replenishment oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202). The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group will report to U.S. 3rd Fleet, headquartered in San Diego, while deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of 3rd Fleet into the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sean M. Castellano/Released), public domain, https://www.defense.gov/Media/Photo-Gallery?igphoto=2001685812

The old international order is falling apart, and a recommitment to deterrence can help stabilize the new one.

The Undeniable Folly of the Iran Nuclear Deal

CIA, Public Domain

Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan’s own policies were the height of ‘folly.’

Who Will Lead in a World on Fire?

kuwaitoilfires, Tech. Sgt. David McLeod, US military, public domain

Faced with spreading conflict and instability throughout the world, who will lead?

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