Myanmar’s Kachin State Is At The Centre Of The Sino-US Scramble For Rare Earths By Andrew Korybko The US seeks influence over this region that supplies much of neighbouring China’s rare earth industry. Western media has published a spree of articles… Read More ›
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated By Andrew Korybko Polar opposite understandings of the Sino-Indo prisoner’s dilemma lie at the core of their calculations. Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin… Read More ›
France Becomes First G7 Nation To Recognize Palestine, Raising Strategic Questions For NATO By Uriel Araujo Paris’ recognition of Palestine, a G7 first, signals a seismic shift in European diplomacy, further isolating Israel and straining NATO’s unity. Rooted in France’s somewhat… Read More ›
Von Der Leyen Just Subordinated The EU As The US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State By Andrew Korybko This outcome places the US on the path of restoring its unipolar hegemony via sequential lopsided trade deals as it likely sets its sights on… Read More ›
Egypt Draws Red Line On U.S. Gaza Deal: GERD Dispute Takes Backseat To Homeland Security By Andrew Korybko Preserving its perceived national interests vis-à-vis Gaza is seen as much more important of a priority. It was concluded here in late July after Trump’s… Read More ›
Indo-Pakistani Rivalry Reshaping Global Geopolitics: A Conflict Neither Local Nor Over By Uriel Araujo The long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan is not confined to South Asia. The rivalry is entangling the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Eurasian alliances — posing… Read More ›
What’s Thailand’s Endgame If Its Conflict With Cambodia Escalates Into War? By Andrew Korybko Demilitarization and regime change might be in the cards. The latest clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over their decades-long border dispute, which were arguably initiated by the… Read More ›
Trump’s Campaign Against Brazil Is About More Than Bolsonaro, Bilateral Trade, And BRICS By Andrew Korybko His goal is to subordinate Brazil as a vassal state so that it becomes the main “Fortress America” component of his “Global West” vision. Brazil… Read More ›
Endgame For Zelensky? Why Seymour Hersh’s Report Rings True By Uriel Araujo Growing unrest in Ukraine and shifting US attitudes may signal the end of President Zelensky’s tenure. Seymour Hersh reports that Washington could be backing General Zaluzhnyi as a successor,… Read More ›
Thailand’s Domestic Dynamics Are Likely Responsible For The Latest Clashes With Cambodia By Andrew Korybko They’re not due to some divide-and-rule plot by the US or anyone else like some might speculate. Intense clashes broke out along the colonial-era French-drawn Cambodian-Thai border… Read More ›
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