How Might Russia Respond If Its ‘Technical Ally’ North Korea Came Under Attack? By Andrew Korybko Each is the other’s ally, but within lesser practical limits than Russia is to its CSTO allies or the US to its NATO ones, which… Read More ›
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Telegram Has Reportedly Become A Pressing National Security Threat For Russia
Telegram Has Reportedly Become A Pressing National Security Threat For Russia By Andrew Korybko The authorities believe that Ukraine has quick access to Russian servicemen’s messages and exploits this for military purposes, which wouldn’t be possible without some degree of complicity… Read More ›
How US Military Action Against Iran Serves The Grand Strategy Of Containing China
How US Military Action Against Iran Serves The Grand Strategy Of Containing China By Andrew Korybko The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for… Read More ›
There’s A Good Reason Why Russia Is Closely Monitoring The Latest Afghan-Pakistani Clashes
There’s A Good Reason Why Russia Is Closely Monitoring The Latest Afghan-Pakistani Clashes By Andrew Korybko Russia envisages Afghanistan serving as the irreplaceable transit state for pioneering another North-South Transport Corridor, albeit this time between itself and Pakistan, but this master… Read More ›
The Lieutenant Colonels Of Silicon Valley: Anthropic’s Lonely Stand Against The Militarized AI
The Lieutenant Colonels Of Silicon Valley: Anthropic’s Lonely Stand Against The Militarized AI By Uriel Araujo The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon is more than a corporate dispute; it is a symptom of a deeper struggle within America’s power structure…. Read More ›
Steel, Rail, And Oil: The Roadmap For A New Era In Russia-Pakistan Ties
Steel, Rail, And Oil: The Roadmap For A New Era In Russia-Pakistan Ties By Andrew Korybko For as promising as the opportunities that he discussed are, the US still wields a de facto veto over “Major Non-NATO Ally” Pakistan’s cooperation with… Read More ›
Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev Addressed The West’s Evolving Naval Threats To Russia
Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev Addressed The West’s Evolving Naval Threats To Russia By Andrew Korybko All in all, he has a solid understanding of their nature and how to most effectively respond to them, so observers shouldn’t worry about the West… Read More ›
The Hawk vs. The Pragmatist: Whose Advice Will Putin Follow?
The Hawk vs. The Pragmatist: Whose Advice Will Putin Follow? By Andrew Korybko He can either escalate as far as accidentally sparking World War III, compromise at the cost of leaving some of his stated objectives unfilled, or keep everything about… Read More ›
Russia’s Setbacks Abroad Aren’t Due To The Special Operation
Russia’s Setbacks Abroad Aren’t Due To The Special Operation: A Critique of the “Decline” Narrative By Andrew Korybko This popular narrative, which Foreign Affairs was one of the latest to push, is very misleading. Foreign Affairs, the official magazine of the… Read More ›
Prince Andrew And Lord Mandelson Arrested: The Epstein Files And Britain’s Crisis of Power
Prince Andrew And Lord Mandelson Arrested: The Epstein Files And Britain’s Crisis of Power By Uriel Araujo The arrest of former Prince Andrew and Lord Peter Mandelson have plunged Britain into its gravest institutional crisis in decades. Linked to abuse and… Read More ›
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