Two Ukrainian And US Reports Suggest That Kiev’s Incompetence Destroyed A Church In Odessa By Andrew Korybko These reports make it impossible for any objective observer to dismiss the Russian Defense Ministry’s claims about the true cause of the Transfiguration Cathedral’s… Read More ›
International Affairs
Is Wagner About To Go Rogue Again?
Is Wagner About To Go Rogue Again? By Andrew Korybko There are three interpretations of why Lukashenko just publicly shared his concerns with Putin about the possibility of Wagner invading Poland. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart during talks on Sunday… Read More ›
Putin Exposed Poland’s Regional Plans In An Attempt To Deter Them
Putin Exposed Poland’s Regional Plans In An Attempt To Deter Them By Andrew Korybko If PiS still orders the armed forces to conventionally intervene in Ukraine after President Putin just tried to deter them from doing so, then there’s a chance… Read More ›
The Latest Polish-Belarusian Border Tensions Actually Advance Both Of Their Interests
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
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
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
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
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
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 ›