Risk Doctrine1 book · 2 highlights
Exile as the Final Balance Sheet Entry
Books Teaching This Pattern
Evidence
The Russian Rockefellers
Tolf, Robert W.; · 2 highlights
“Two years later Emanuel was fleeing the country disguised as a peasant, his two brothers were in a Cheka prison, the Nobel empire was a shambles, the ships halted, the refinery fires banked, the hundreds of wells filling with water, the factories in St. Petersburg closed down.”
“At the turn of the century Russia was supplying more than half the world’s oil, but the troubles of 1903–1906 marked the end of that leadership and spelled defeat for Nobel, Rothschild, and the other Russian producers in the Thirty Years War.”
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