From Bolsonaro To BRICS: What Trump’s Tariffs On Brazil Are Really About By Uriel Araujo Trump’s 50% tariff on Brazil, framed as support for Bolsonaro, may actually target Brazil’s deepening ties with China and the BRICS bloc. The move risks triggering… Read More ›
The Lublin Triangle: From Neo-Commonwealth Dreams To Geopolitical Drift By Andrew Korybko It’ll never fulfil its initial aim of creating a Neo-Commonwealth though. The Foreign Ministers of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine met in the eastern Polish city of Lublin in late… Read More ›
Trump’s Beef With Medvedev Just Went Nuclear By Andrew Korybko His dramatic deployment of two nuclear submarines near Russia serves three political purposes. Trump announced on Friday that the US will deploy two nuclear submarines near Russia in response to former President and… Read More ›
What’s The Most Realistic Scenario In Which The West Might Replace Zelensky? By Andrew Korybko They might wait until after Russia agrees to a ceasefire (if it ever does) since replacing him with Zaluzhny while hostilities still rage could further weaken… Read More ›
The Epstein Files: The Politics Of Paedophilia, Espionage, And Immunity Deals By Uriel Araujo Releasing the Epstein files would be a good first step, but it’s merely the tip of a deeply disturbing iceberg involving the deep state and the trafficking… Read More ›
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 ›
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