The Latest Polish-Belarusian Border Tensions Actually Advance Both Of Their Interests By Andrew Korybko The interests of Belarus, Wagner, and Russia have already been served, which is why none of those three has any motivation to escalate the situation with Poland,… Read More ›
CARICOM’s Ten Point Plan For Reparatory Justice Is Actually Quite Reasonable By Andrew Korybko The CELAC-EU joint statement from this week’s summit referenced the CARICOM reparations plan, which is fair and would be mutually beneficial for those European governments that it… Read More ›
South Africa Bungled The Optics Of Its BRICS Compromise With Russia By Andrew Korybko What Pretoria should have done was play it cool, refuse to indulge the media circus surrounding the upcoming summit, and candidly discuss everything with the bloc behind… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 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 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 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 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 ›
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