Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev Addressed The West’s Evolving Naval Threats To Russia By Andrew Korybko All in all, he has a solid understanding of their nature and how to most effectively respond to them, so observers shouldn’t worry about the West… Read More ›
International Affairs
Russia’s Setbacks Abroad Aren’t Due To The Special Operation
Russia’s Setbacks Abroad Aren’t Due To The Special Operation: A Critique of the “Decline” Narrative By Andrew Korybko This popular narrative, which Foreign Affairs was one of the latest to push, is very misleading. Foreign Affairs, the official magazine of the… Read More ›
Prince Andrew And Lord Mandelson Arrested: The Epstein Files And Britain’s Crisis of Power
Prince Andrew And Lord Mandelson Arrested: The Epstein Files And Britain’s Crisis of Power By Uriel Araujo The arrest of former Prince Andrew and Lord Peter Mandelson have plunged Britain into its gravest institutional crisis in decades. Linked to abuse and… Read More ›
Why Ukraine And Its Western Patrons Seek To Blow Up Russia’s Black Sea Pipelines
Why Ukraine And Its Western Patrons Seek To Blow Up Russia’s Black Sea Pipelines By Andrew Korybko The purpose is to derail the peace talks by provoking Russia into either preemptively escalating against Ukraine as a deterrent or authorizing an overmatched… Read More ›
The Oreshnik Gambit: Russia’s Hypersonic Answer To US Missiles in Germany
The Oreshnik Gambit: Russia’s Hypersonic Answer To US Missiles in Germany By Andrew Korybko The redeployment of its hypersonic Oreshniks to Kaliningrad, Belarus, and/or Crimea is the most likely response so long as the US continues to informally comply with the… Read More ›
Lukashenko Is Learning The Hard Way That Trump Loves Humiliating His Vassals
Lukashenko Is Learning The Hard Way That Trump Loves Humiliating His Vassals By Andrew Korybko The US’ decision not to issue visas for the Belarusian delegation to the Board of Peace meeting was a “plausibly deniable” form of humiliation against them… Read More ›
The Baltic States Plan To Form Their Own ‘Military Schengen’ As NATO Reinforces Its Eastern Front
The Baltic States Plan To Form Their Own ‘Military Schengen’ As NATO Reinforces Its Eastern Front By Andrew Korybko This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to… Read More ›
Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together
Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together By Andrew Korybko This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a… Read More ›
A Senior Russian Expert Outlines Moscow’s Assessment Of India’s Pro‑US Shift
A Senior Russian Expert Outlines Moscow’s Assessment Of India’s Pro‑US Shift By Andrew Korybko His last words imply that Russia’s response to its potential loss of billions of dollars a year in energy and maybe also military-technical exports to India, which… Read More ›
Zaluzhny Breaks Silence On Zelensky As Ukraine’s Elite Power Struggle Escalates
Zaluzhny Breaks Silence On Zelensky As Ukraine’s Elite Power Struggle Escalates By Uriel Araujo A long-simmering factional war inside Ukraine’s political and security elites is now surfacing more openly. Former army chief Valery Zaluzhny accuses President Zelensky of intimidation as debates… Read More ›