so much of the telos of the global authoritarian right is the petrostate. liberal economists' "resource curse" is reappropriated as a blessing: control of and proximity to resource rents becomes an enduring basis for hierarchy.

Netanyahu's Israel admires Putin's Russia. "Drill baby drill" isn't really about the implausibility of alternative energy sources, but about their disruptiveness to existing hierarchies if they succeed.

cf interviewing phenomenalworld.org/analysis/o