Nigeria Is To Blame For The Sahelian Confederation’s Withdrawal From ECOWAS By Andrew Korybko In hindsight, it was inevitable that the charade of Nigeria’s regional leadership would end, but nobody could have predicted the dramatic way in which it happened. The planned… Read More ›
Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite By Andrew Korybko The Russian leader knows the “new guard” of veterans haven’t been tainted by a life’s worth of Western-leaning sympathies unlike most of the “old guard” political and economic elite, whose… Read More ›
Intuiting The Truth About The Lethal Attack Against US Troops In West Asia By Andrew Korybko Acknowledging Iran’s relationship with its regional allies who just claimed credit for this lethal attack doesn’t promote warmongering against the Islamic Republic, just like acknowledging… Read More ›
Azerbaijan’s Decision To Cease Engagement With PACE Reaffirms Its Sovereignty And Self-Respect By Andrew Korybko What just happened is very significant since it takes a lot of political will to defy the West like Azerbaijan just did, for which it deserves… Read More ›
The ICJ Ruling Is Symbolic And Won’t Substantively Change Anything By Andrew Korybko Innocent people sometimes suffer before the world’s eyes while their tormentors escape punishment for their crimes. This is due to key players calculating that the costs of intervening… Read More ›
Egypt And Saudi Arabia Aren’t Expected To Step Up After The West Suspended UNRWA Funding By Andrew Korybko Egypt’s security-centric policy prevents it from opening the border to fleeing refugees while political factors vis-a-vis Israel and the US are responsible for… Read More ›
A Ukrainian Model’s Crowning As “Miss Japan” Shows The Spread Of Liberal-Globalism In Asia By Andrew Korybko From the perspective of Japan’s historically conservative-nationalist society, ethnic ancestry – not citizenship, language, or culture – is the crucial prerequisite for truly being… Read More ›
Texas’ Standoff With The Federal Government Over Border Security Won’t Lead To Civil War By Andrew Korybko The consequences of this constitutional crisis could still reverberate much further than the Rio Grande and last much longer than the week’s news cycle…. Read More ›
Russia’s Burkinabe Deployment Is A Pretty Big Deal By Andrew Korybko Slowly but surely, a new Russian-backed pole of influence is emerging in Africa, which could eventually attract the participation of neighbouring multipolar countries like similarly military-led Guinea. The first contingent… Read More ›
The IL-76 Shootdown By A US Patriot Missile Could Lead To Zaluzhny’s Replacement With Budanov By Andrew Korybko All things considered, blaming Zaluzhny – perhaps by claiming that he should have verified alleged intelligence about the IL-76’s cargo before shooting it… Read More ›
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