Pakistan Shouldn’t Have Skipped The Moscow Meeting On Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko The five disadvantageous outcomes of Pakistan’s decision were that: 1) Russia was left wondering why Pakistan conveyed its interest in this event during Kabulov’s trip to Islamabad only for… Read More ›
Why’d Putin’s Special Envoy To Afghanistan Visit Kabul Amidst Pakistan-Taliban Tensions? By Andrew Korybko Russia is a responsible regional stakeholder and therefore doesn’t want the worst-case scenario of a never-ending Pakistani-Taliban war to transpire, yet it’s powerless to directly shape the… Read More ›
China’s Oil Production Deal With Afghanistan Is Mutually Beneficial By Andrew Korybko What Afghanistan urgently needs isn’t more lectures about its internal affairs or military threats, but someone credible like China who sincerely believes in its people’s ability to reconstruct their… Read More ›
Pakistan Might Be About To Launch A “Special Military Operation” In Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko The Pakistani-Taliban security dilemma is untenable and quickly approaching the breaking point, which is why Islamabad might soon seize the initiative to decisively defend itself from… Read More ›
The New Russian-Indian-Iranian Troika On Afghanistan Balances The Chinese-Pakistani Duopoly By Andrew Korybko Those who aspire to analyse Afghanistan as accurately as possible must acknowledge this new dynamic. Russia, India, and Iran took a tangible step in the direction of creating a third pole of… Read More ›
Pakistan Is Far Behind Afghanistan And India When It Comes To Non-Dollar Trade With Russia By Andrew Korybko One can only imagine how far ahead Pakistan could have been instead had its former premier not been ousted, but the fact of… Read More ›
Explaining Putin’s Hint That Afghanistan Will Determine The Future Of Russia-Pakistan Ties By Andrew Korybko By cleverly clothing his concerns in such a way that casual observers would be convinced that he was only talking about their complementary multipolar potential whose… Read More ›
Russia Wonders Whether The Al Qaeda Chief’s Assassination Will Help ISIS In Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov wonders whether this alleged development might actually end up being a game changer for Afghanistan in the worst possible… Read More ›
Pakistan-backed US Military Factor: Everything Is Getting Messy Again In Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko Afghanistan’s internal insecurity, border tensions, and the potentially Pakistani-backed US military factor are combining to create yet another storm in the New Cold War that threatens to… Read More ›
Comprehensively Expanding Russia-Afghanistan Trade Ties Would Be Mutually Beneficial By Andrew Korybko Russia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan should work more closely together in pursuit of their common multipolar goals in order to strengthen the interconnected Central Asian-South Asian space. Most of the… Read More ›
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