Can Putin Legally Stop The Conflict Without First Controlling All The Disputed Territory? By Andrew Korybko The Constitutional Court would likely have to rule on this hypothetical scenario due to 2020’s constitutional amendment prohibiting the cession of Russian territory except in… Read More ›
Trump Putin Summit: What’s Standing In The Way Of A Grand Compromise On Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko The onus is now on Zelensky to reciprocate Putin’s widely perceived willingness to compromise for peace. Putin and Trump publicly confirmed that they found… Read More ›
The FSB Thwarted One Of Ukraine’s Most Dangerous Escalation Plots Against Russia By Andrew Korybko They might have saved the peace process and therefore literally changed the world. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Thursday that it thwarted Ukraine’s long-range Sapsan… Read More ›
What’s Responsible For The Upcoming Putin-Trump Summit? By Andrew Korybko One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve… Read More ›
Here’s How Lindsey Graham Manipulated Trump Against Putin By Andrew Korybko It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earths. RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, “World War mastermind: Here’s… Read More ›
China Might Not Want Russia To Lose, But It Might Not Want Russia To Win Either By Andrew Korybko A Russian loss would be catastrophic for China’s security, while a Russian victory could end the discounted energy bonanza that’s helping it… Read More ›
Here’s How Trump Was Manipulated Into Mission Creep By Andrew Korybko Zelensky, anti-Russian US hawks, Melania, and the Mainstream Media each exploited in their own way his false expectation that Putin would agree to a ceasefire-partnership deal. Many are struggling to… Read More ›
Trump’s “Major Statement” On Russia Is A Clumsy Attempt To Thread The Needle By Andrew Korybko His threatened secondary sanctions could majorly backfire by harming the US’ own interests. The “major statement” on Russia that Trump earlier hyped up turned out… Read More ›
Courting The Deep State? Trump’s Sudden Tough Talk On Moscow By Uriel Araujo President Trump’s shift to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine by a NATO arms deal signals a “tougher” stance on Moscow. This move, driven by domestic pressures and “Deep… Read More ›
From Bombs To Benefits: Laos And Russia’s Military-Political Trade-Off By Andrew Korybko Laos would bolster its geopolitical balancing act while Russia could experiment with a new military-political partnership model that it might then fine-tune for its other Global South partners. Ukraine’s… Read More ›