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Videos, opinions and analyses In English/Urdu on geopolitics, religious and ideological issues.
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The Chairman Of The Russian Naval Board Shared His Country’s Strategy For The World Ocean
The Chairman Of The Russian Naval Board Shared His Country’s Strategy For The World Ocean By Andrew Korybko Russia is still one of the world’s top naval powers despite its recent setbacks in the Black Sea. Putin’s senior aide Nikolai Patrushev,… Read More ›
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Kashmir: Interpreting Trump’s Reaction To The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
Kashmir: Interpreting Trump’s Reaction To The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack By Andrew Korybko He predictably condemned the killings and unsurprisingly reaffirmed American neutrality vis-à-vis India and Pakistan in order to position the US as a mediator if their tensions spiral out of… Read More ›
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The Top Five Takeaways From Shoigu’s Latest Interview About Russia’s Security Interests
The Top Five Takeaways From Shoigu’s Latest Interview About Russia’s Security Interests By Andrew Korybko If a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine and no Western troops are deployed there, then it’s expected that strategic arms control talks with the US might… Read More ›
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Navigating The Aegean: Greek-Turkish Rivalry And NATO’s Growing Fractures
Navigating The Aegean: Greek-Turkish Rivalry And NATO’s Growing Fractures By Uriel Araujo Ongoing Greece-Turkiye disputes over Aegean and Mediterranean claims expose NATO’s internal divisions, as Turkiye’s aggressive “Blue Homeland” doctrine and neo-Ottoman ambitions clash with Greece’s defensive militarization, undermining the alliance’s… Read More ›
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The Tragedy Of Pahalgam, Kashmir: An Appeal To Democratic Indians
The Tragedy Of Pahalgam, Kashmir: An Appeal To Democratic Indians By Dr Maqsood Jafri The post by educationist and poet Mr. Atta Ullah Shad of Poonch City, Kashmir, starkly reveals Indian hypocrisy and duplicity. I was excited to read his… Read More ›
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Top Pakistani Officials Made Two Self-Discrediting Claims About The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
Top Pakistani Officials Made Two Self-Discrediting Claims About The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack By Andrew Korybko The scenarios that they speculated about are mutually exclusive and intellectually insulting, and the fact Pakistan’s Foreign and Defence Ministers can’t get their story straight suggests… Read More ›
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Evaluating Foreign Affairs’ Warning About The Risks Of An Emboldened And Remilitarized Germany
Evaluating Foreign Affairs’ Warning About The Risks Of An Emboldened And Remilitarized Germany By Andrew Korybko How likely is it that a potentially ultra-nationalist Germany “relitigates its borders or forgoes EU-style deliberation in favour of military blackmail”? Foreign Affairs warned earlier this… Read More ›
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Pakistan’s Military Leader Has The Most To Gain And Lose From The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
Pakistan’s Military Leader Has The Most To Gain And Lose From The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack By Andrew Korybko From India’s perspective, the Pahalgam terrorist attack has Pakistan’s fingerprints all over it, hence why it’s considering at least one surgical strike across… Read More ›
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of The Proposed Congolese-US Minerals-Security Deal
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of The Proposed Congolese-US Minerals-Security Deal By Andrew Korybko The US might be able to replace Chinese companies’ dominant role in the DRC’s gigantic minerals industry if it plays its cards right but must avoid being dragged into… Read More ›
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Estonia’s Russophobic Policies: A Maidan-style Crisis In the Making?
Estonia’s Russophobic Policies: A Maidan-style Crisis In the Making? By Uriel Araujo Estonia’s 2025 voting ban, affecting 80,000 Russians, plus Estonian-only education and Orthodox Church restrictions, sparks Russophobia concerns. Soviet monument demolitions and Waffen-SS glorification risk Baltic instability, echoing Ukraine’s Maidan…. Read More ›
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