South Africa Showed That BRICS Isn’t What Many Of Its Supporters Assumed By Andrew Korybko For as much as the ruling African National Congress might sincerely want to host President Putin and accelerate financial multipolarity processes through close cooperation with Russia… Read More ›
Geopolitics
Kissinger’s Surprise Trip To Beijing Shows The Seriousness Of Chinese-US Tensions
Kissinger’s Surprise Trip To Beijing Shows The Seriousness Of Chinese-US Tensions By Andrew Korybko To each side’s credit, neither leaked the news about Kissinger’s trip in advance, which suggests that they both feared that it could have been derailed had that… Read More ›
PAKAFUZ’s Connectivity Potential Is Totally Dependent On Troubled Pakistan-Taliban Ties
PAKAFUZ’s Connectivity Potential Is Totally Dependent On Troubled Pakistan-Taliban Ties By Andrew Korybko PAKAFUZ isn’t as promising of a project as it initially seemed due to its total dependence on seemingly intractable Pakistani-Taliban tensions and the revival of the North-South Transport… Read More ›
Fake News Alert: Wagner Isn’t Going To Invade The Suwalki Corridor From Belarus
Fake News Alert: Wagner Isn’t Going To Invade The Suwalki Corridor From Belarus By Andrew Korybko It’s worth paying much more attention to what Chairman of the Duma’s Defence Committee Andrey Kartapolov actually said than what the Daily Mail sensationally claimed… Read More ›
Putin Is Unlikely To Listen To Medvedev’s “Inhumane” Advice About Fighting Terrorism
Putin Is Unlikely To Listen To Medvedev’s “Inhumane” Advice About Fighting Terrorism By Andrew Korybko The so-called “turbo-patriots” as they’re popularly known nowadays in Russia won’t be happy, but they should respect President Putin’s reluctance to escalate if they’re true patriots,… Read More ›
RT’s Timur Fomenko Is Right: China’s Call For Asian Unity Will Likely Fall On Deaf Ears
RT’s Timur Fomenko Is Right: China’s Call For Asian Unity Will Likely Fall On Deaf Ears By Andrew Korybko Some Asia-Pacific countries’ “negative nationalism” vis-a-vis China is just as toxic as the variant expressed by many Central and Eastern Europeans vis-a-vis… Read More ›
Russia Did The Right Thing By Declining To Extend The Grain Deal
Russia Did The Right Thing By Declining To Extend The Grain Deal By Andrew Korybko Earlier “goodwill gestures” only resulted in making a fool out of Russia even though that wasn’t the Kremlin’s intent. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Monday that “The… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Latest Attack Against The Crimean Bridge Was A Desperate Distraction
Ukraine’s Latest Attack Against The Crimean Bridge Was A Desperate Distraction By Andrew Korybko Instead of obsessing over this incident and getting the hopes of Kiev’s supporters unrealistically high, it would be much more responsible for the media to precondition everyone… Read More ›
The New York Times’ Latest Smear Piece Against Tucker Carlson Shows That Liberals Have Lost The Plot
The New York Times’ Latest Smear Piece Against Tucker Carlson Shows That Liberals Have Lost The Plot By Andrew Korybko What Jonathan Weisman either can’t countenance due to his hardcore liberal bias or is too dishonest to openly admit is that… Read More ›
Sudan’s Neighbours Signalled That They Are Disinterested In Fighting A Divide-And-Rule Proxy War
Sudan’s Neighbours Signalled That They Are Disinterested In Fighting A Divide-And-Rule Proxy War By Andrew Korybko Sudan’s neighbours might not be able to stop its slide into a full-scale civil war that sparks the next “African World War”, but it wouldn’t… Read More ›