A Roadmap For Russian-Pakistani Relations Amid Their Dispute Over Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko Their disagreements over Taliban-run Afghanistan don’t have to worsen their ties as long as Pakistan doesn’t arm Ukraine on this pretext. The turbulence in Russian-Pakistani ties sparked… Read More ›
Why Putin Might Accept Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan By Andrew Korybko It represents a pragmatic balance of interests between all sides. The Washington Post reported that Trump’s Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are working on a four-part peace plan for… Read More ›
In What Scenario Might Mobilization Occur In Russia And How Might The EU Respond? By Andrew Korybko Mobilization would most likely only be declared to exploit an impending breakthrough across the front, but the EU is expected to spin any such… Read More ›
Seven Misunderstandings About Russia That Risk Ruining Its Ties With Pakistan By Andrew Korybko At this sensitive moment in Russian-Pakistani relations, diplomatic and expert dialogue is urgently required, not more social media hysteria. False perceptions, uninformed assumptions, and even blatant lies… Read More ›
The EU’s “Geopolitical” Enlargement Strategy Risks Deepening The Security Dilemma With Russia By Uriel Araujo Brussels now calls EU enlargement a “geopolitical imperative.” With Ukraine and Moldova moving toward membership, the strategic implications for Russia are becoming harder to ignore. The… Read More ›
Why Might Putin Finally Decide To Bring Ukraine To Its Knees After Nearly Five Years? By Andrew Korybko Regardless of why Putin might have held off on this for so long, he’s now arguably motivated at least in part by the… Read More ›
Russia Faces Three Strategic Challenges That It Can’t Afford To Ignore By Andrew Korybko The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign… Read More ›
The EU’s Middle Corridor Plans Could Tighten The West’s Strategic Encirclement Of Russia By Andrew Korybko Even if there’s ever a Russian-US rapprochement, Russia would still have to confront creeping European-Turkish military-strategic influence along its entire southern periphery, thus perpetuating New… Read More ›
Russia Could Make An Energy Truce Conditional On Resuming Pipeline Exports To Europe By Andrew Korybko Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises… Read More ›
All Eyes Are On Belarus Ahead Of The US’ Reported European Military Drawdown By Andrew Korybko The potential pullback of some US forces from the Baltic States upon the completion of its force posture review could be followed by European NATO… Read More ›