The Baltic States Plan To Form Their Own ‘Military Schengen’ As NATO Reinforces Its Eastern Front By Andrew Korybko This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to… Read More ›
Geopolitics
Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together
Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together By Andrew Korybko This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a… Read More ›
A Senior Russian Expert Outlines Moscow’s Assessment Of India’s Pro‑US Shift
A Senior Russian Expert Outlines Moscow’s Assessment Of India’s Pro‑US Shift By Andrew Korybko His last words imply that Russia’s response to its potential loss of billions of dollars a year in energy and maybe also military-technical exports to India, which… Read More ›
Zaluzhny Breaks Silence On Zelensky As Ukraine’s Elite Power Struggle Escalates
Zaluzhny Breaks Silence On Zelensky As Ukraine’s Elite Power Struggle Escalates By Uriel Araujo A long-simmering factional war inside Ukraine’s political and security elites is now surfacing more openly. Former army chief Valery Zaluzhny accuses President Zelensky of intimidation as debates… Read More ›
Fast‑Tracking Ukraine Into The EU Would De Facto Strengthen Federalist Ambitions
Fast‑Tracking Ukraine Into The EU Would De Facto Strengthen Federalist Ambitions By Andrew Korybko The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from… Read More ›
Kazakhstan’s President Is Bending Over Backwards To Appease Trump – Here’s Why It Matters
Kazakhstan’s President Is Bending Over Backwards To Appease Trump – Here’s Why It Matters By Andrew Korybko He’s doing a series of favours for Trump so that he’d have his back if trouble ever arises with Russia, which is an increasingly… Read More ›
Why You Shouldn’t Read Too Deeply Into the Iranian‑Russian‑Chinese Naval Drills
Why You Shouldn’t Read Too Deeply Into the Iranian‑Russian‑Chinese Naval Drills By Andrew Korybko They aren’t meant to deter the US and Israel like some Alt-Media observers believe. Iran, Russia, and China are carrying out the latest round of their annual joint… Read More ›
Poland’s Military Build-Up Might Have Ultimately Been For Nothing
Poland’s Military Build-Up Might Have Ultimately Been For Nothing By Andrew Korybko The potential domestic political ramifications are more significant than exposing Poland as possibly having been a paper tiger all along despite now having the largest armed forces in the… Read More ›
Are Budanov And Zaluzhny Surpassing Zelensky In Influence?
Are Budanov And Zaluzhny Surpassing Zelensky In Influence? By Andrew Korybko The trend is that Zelensky’s oligarchic faction is declining as the intelligence and military ones respectively represented by Budanov and Zaluzhny rise with all that entails for Ukraine’s future. Several… Read More ›
Russia’s BRICS Sherpa Debunks Speculation About The Bloc Turning Into A Security Alliance
Russia’s BRICS Sherpa Debunks Speculation About The Bloc Turning Into A Security Alliance By Andrew Korybko The timing comes amidst continued dialogue with the US and its role in mediating between Russia and Ukraine, which could abruptly end if temperamental Trump’s… Read More ›