It’s Significant That Saudi Arabia Reportedly Helped Intercept Iranian Missiles By Andrew Korybko The latest regional conflict served to recalibrate Saudi grand strategy towards the West, though this doesn’t automatically preclude its possible membership in BRICS. Israeli media cited a royal Saudi source… Read More ›
Geopolitics
Poland’s Latest Russian Spy Scandal Might Be A Case Of Ukrainian Entrapment
Poland’s Latest Russian Spy Scandal Might Be A Case Of Ukrainian Entrapment By Andrew Korybko This case isn’t as clear-cut as the media has made it seem if one reads between the lines of the National Prosecutor’s official statement about what… Read More ›
Russia’s Request For UNSC Sanctions Against Israel Is A Principled Soft Power Move
Russia’s Request For UNSC Sanctions Against Israel Is A Principled Soft Power Move By Andrew Korybko The sole purpose is to reaffirm the primacy of international law as enshrined in the UN Charter after Israel refused to implement UNSC 2728. Russian… Read More ›
The Dispute Between The Polish President And Premier Over Air Defence Has Geopolitical Origins
The Dispute Between The Polish President And Premier Over Air Defence Has Geopolitical Origins By Andrew Korybko Regardless of which geopolitical vision wins out, the fact of the matter is that Poland is destined to play a role in “containing” Russia,… Read More ›
Former US Officials’ Call For Regime Change In China Endangers World Peace
Former US Officials’ Call For Regime Change In China Endangers World Peace By Uriel Araujo It might be wrong to assume China has “peaked”. Nicholas R. Lardy, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, writing for Foreign… Read More ›
The US Will Not Support Israeli Attack Against Iran, But Can The Israelis Be Curbed?
The US Will Not Support Israeli Attack Against Iran, But Can The Israelis Be Curbed? By Uriel Araujo The fact that Iran provides weapons to Palestinians is not heinous at all, because a population under “belligerent occupation” (in the wording of… Read More ›
Fact-Checking Armenia’s Claim That “Azerbaijan Has Completed The Ethnic Cleansing Of Karabakh”
Fact-Checking Armenia’s Claim That “Azerbaijan Has Completed The Ethnic Cleansing Of Karabakh” By Andrew Korybko Those who describe the situation in Azerbaijan’s western region as an “ethnic cleansing” are either innocently misinformed or deliberately lying. Armenia’s Representative on International Legal Matters… Read More ›
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won’t Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine
Borrell Came Up With A Nifty Excuse For Why NATO Won’t Shoot Down Russian Missiles Over Ukraine By Andrew Korybko This is credible enough of a reason to justify a conventional NATO intervention in defence of Israel without giving Ukraine grounds… Read More ›
Macron Keeps Discrediting France By Making Mistake After Mistake On The Foreign Policy Front
Macron Keeps Discrediting France By Making Mistake After Mistake On The Foreign Policy Front By Andrew Korybko At this rate, there’s no longer any credible chance that France will revive its independent foreign policy traditions after the five major foreign policy… Read More ›
The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine’s Industrial Agriculture
The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine’s Industrial Agriculture By Andrew Korybko Andrzej Duda represents what’s widely considered to be one of the most pro-American and anti-Russian governments at any time in history so he can’t credibly… Read More ›