Assessing Russian Hardliners’ Reportedly Envisaged Endgame In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko While there might indeed be some Russian hardliners who think that peace talks should just be a ruse for buying time to make more military gains, such attitudes don’t reflect… Read More ›
Macron’s Proposed Nuclear Umbrella For Europe: Much Ado About Nothing By Uriel Araujo Macron is offering Europe something he does not have, to counter a threat that does not really exist the way he describes it. France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced last week… Read More ›
Sikorski Deserved To Be Put In His Place By Musk And Rubio By Andrew Korybko Sikorski arguably sought to provoke a fake scandal with the unfriendly aim of further worsening the US’ already tense ties with the EU and NATO in… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From The Latest Sectarian Violence In Syria By Andrew Korybko The most likely scenario is that the Kristallnacht-like massacre of Alawites goes unpunished and the rebellion by some of the victims’ co-religionists is decisively defeated. Syria was rocked by sectarian… Read More ›
Ukraine Already Kinda Has Article 5 Guarantees From Some NATO Countries By Andrew Korybko Considering that Article 5 always left the option of armed force up to each individual member, which remains the case with each of the bilateral “security guarantees”… Read More ›
Trump’s Gamble: Reforming The Defence Sector While Making Enemies At Home And Abroad By Uriel Araujo Trump is making too many enemies (domestically and internationally), while trying to reform the intelligence agencies and reshape Washington. The defence sector might be too… Read More ›
De-Dollarization Was Always More Of A Political Slogan Than A Pecuniary Fact By Andrew Korybko Any breakthrough in Russian-US relations would inevitably disappoint those multipolar enthusiasts who bought into the most ideologically dogmatic narratives of the New Cold War and consequently… Read More ›
The “ReArm Europe Plan” Will Probably Fall Far Short Of The Bloc’s Lofty Expectations By Andrew Korybko The estimated €800 billion in defence spending that’s supposed to follow in the next four years might sound impressive, but it becomes much less… Read More ›
France, Germany, And Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe By Andrew Korybko The interplay between them, Russia, and the US will determine the continent’s future security architecture. French President Macron’s declaration on Wednesday that he’s flirting with extending his country’s nuclear… Read More ›
Putin Might Broker An Iranian-US “New Détente” As A Reciprocal Favour To Trump By Andrew Korybko If an Iranian-US “New Détente” follows the nascent Russian-US one, brokered as it might be by Putin as a reciprocal favour to Trump for everything… Read More ›
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