Merkel Is Half-Right And Half-Wrong About Who’s Responsible For The Ukrainian Conflict By Andrew Korybko The US was most responsible for the Ukrainian Conflict by refusing to reach a compromise with Russia for defusing their security dilemma, but Germany deserves as… Read More ›
International Affairs
Beyond Epstein: How The Deep State’s Progressive Faction Weaponizes Crime And NGOs
Beyond Epstein: How The Deep State’s Progressive Faction Weaponizes Crime And NGOs By Uriel Araujo Evidence suggests dope trade, human trafficking, intelligence operations, and progressive elite networks (including Hollywood and NGOs) have intersected in ways that greatly impact US politics, and… Read More ›
Why Didn’t The Polish Judge Extradite The Nord Stream Suspect To Germany?
Why Didn’t The Polish Judge Extradite The Nord Stream Suspect To Germany? By Andrew Korybko This importantly doesn’t equate to endorsing his controversial logic, which observers should in any case try to understand even if they disagree with it since his… Read More ›
Western Designs On Belarus: Replacing Russian Ties With Polish Vassalage
Western Designs On Belarus: Replacing Russian Ties With Polish Vassalage By Andrew Korybko The West already turned Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova into anti-Russian states while stirring trouble in its ties with Azerbaijan and eagerly eyeing Central Asian leader Kazakhstan so the… Read More ›
Is The Quad Dying, Or Being Recast As Washington’s Proxy Against China?
Is The Quad Dying, Or Being Recast As Washington’s Proxy Against China? By Uriel Araujo Trump’s America First retrenchment hollows out the Quad, empowering overlapping Indo-Pacific networks while trade spats irk allies like India. Yet the relentless US push against China,… Read More ›
What’s The Future Of Russia’s Bases In Syria?
What’s The Future Of Russia’s Bases In Syria? By Andrew Korybko Lavrov suggested that they could facilitate the dispatch of aid to Africa, but it’s also possible that they might host complex military-diplomatic talks between all stakeholders in Syria while also… Read More ›
Trump 2.0’s Eurasian Balancing Act Has Failed
Trump 2.0’s Eurasian Balancing Act Has Failed By Andrew Korybko His arrogant and aggressive behaviour towards Russia, India, and China is responsible for this. The global systemic transition to multipolarity is nowadays proceeding along a different trajectory than before due to recent shifts… Read More ›
The Latest Estonian-Russian “Border Scare” Is An Example Of “Reflexive Control”
The Latest Estonian-Russian “Border Scare” Is An Example Of “Reflexive Control” By Andrew Korybko Russia creatively employed “reflexive control” to troll Estonia by placing its officials in a zero-sum dilemma whereby whichever response they’d resort to would advance Russia’s soft power… Read More ›
Cuba In The Crosshairs: How Speculative Allegations Fuel Washington’s Pressure Campaign
Cuba In The Crosshairs: How Speculative Allegations Fuel Washington’s Pressure Campaign By Andrew Korybko The US and Ukraine’s arguably coordinated fearmongering campaign about the regional security consequences of Cubans allegedly fighting for Russia hints that the island will soon come under… Read More ›
Merkel’s “Heresy”: Did Poland Help Trigger Ukraine’s War?
Merkel’s “Heresy”: Did Poland Help Trigger Ukraine’s War? By Uriel Araujo Angela Merkel’s recent claim that Poland and the Baltic states bear some responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine has caused an uproar. Still, her point — rooted in realist geopolitics… Read More ›