Putin just upped Russia's status in global oil markets

Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin One week before the U.S./Russian truce agreement in Syria, the Washington Post headlined an article with, “Whether or not the Syrian cease-fire sticks, Putin Wins.” Is Putin winning? There’s little doubt that Russia’s intervention in Syria has reversed the Assad Government’s position from what looked like certain defeat to a far more commanding position in the field. For many world leaders, these impressive achievements in only nine months have also served to r...