Greece Is “Indispensable”, But Washington Can’t Afford To Alienate Turkey By Uriel Araujo Washington expands defence cooperation with Athens. The closer relationship could alienate Turkey and intensify tensions on NATO’s south-eastern flank – in an increasingly divided Alliance. US Secretary of… Read More ›
Russia Hinted At What An Afghan-Pakistani De-Escalation Agreement Could Look Like By Andrew Korybko It can be intuited from a reasonable interpretation of Lavrov’s remarks as informed by Kabulov’s. “Russia & Pakistan Have Polar Opposite Views On Taliban-Led Afghanistan” as revealed… Read More ›
The Washington Post Vindicated SVR’s Warnings Of Ukrainian-Connected Cartel Threats To The US By Andrew Korybko The “Foreign Legion’s” sharing of its drone expertise with cartels and all other threatening non-state-actors is accordingly expected to follow the example of the Afghan… Read More ›
The EU’s “Geopolitical” Enlargement Strategy Risks Deepening The Security Dilemma With Russia By Uriel Araujo Brussels now calls EU enlargement a “geopolitical imperative.” With Ukraine and Moldova moving toward membership, the strategic implications for Russia are becoming harder to ignore. The… Read More ›
Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years? By Andrew Korybko Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he’s now arguably motivated at least in part by the… Read More ›
Europe’s Migrant “Return Hub” Plans In Central Asia Could Create New Risks For Russia By Uriel Araujo The EU is considering return hubs in third countries. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have emerged as possible locations, despite official denials. The proposal could extend… Read More ›
Russia Faces Three Strategic Challenges That It Can’t Afford To Ignore By Andrew Korybko The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign… Read More ›
Iran’s Ambassador To Russia Clarified Tehran’s Views On Moscow And Regional Security By Andrew Korybko Although Jalali didn’t explicitly describe the Islamic NATO as a threat, he ominously said that “The presence of non-regional powers has led to the current situation”,… Read More ›
Moldova’s Independence Day Parade Sent A Clear Euro-Atlantic Signal By Uriel Araujo The absence of Soviet-era symbolism from Moldova’s 2026 Independence Day parade was as striking as the presence of Western weapons, and NATO and Ukrainian personnel. With EU integration and… Read More ›
Russia Made It Clear That Nuclear War Would Follow Any Serious Aggression Against Kaliningrad By Andrew Korybko Neither Poland nor Lithuania dares to blockade, let alone invade, this Russian exclave. Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski proposed in mid-September that Poland should “exercise so… Read More ›