Trump’s Latest Sanctions Threat Against Russia Suggests That He’s Getting Impatient For A Deal By Andrew Korybko This moment of truth could even arrive earlier than expected and thus force Putin to compromise or escalate before he’s fully made up his… Read More ›
Putin’s Proposed UN Control Over Ukraine Is Well Intentioned But Will Be Tough To Implement By Andrew Korybko The odds of everything perfectly unfolding – the UNSC agreeing to have the UN assume control only over “rump Ukraine” and without Kiev’s… Read More ›
The Grain Deal’s Revival Would Bring Russia And Ukraine Closer To A Full Ceasefire By Andrew Korybko What’s most important is that Putin and Trump trust one another, their representatives have excellent working relations with each other, and these two leaders… Read More ›
Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About The Arctic And Baltic Fronts By Andrew Korybko The Arctic front of the New Cold War is thawing a lot quicker than the Baltic one since the first is where the US could… Read More ›
The Real Importance Of The Latest Russian-Pakistani Naval Drills By Andrew Korybko Pakistan continues relying on Russia to pragmatically rebalance ties with China. The Russian and Pakistani Navies conducted a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the Arabian Sea last week. This is a standard… Read More ›
Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, And/Or Kharkov Regions? By Andrew Korybko This might be the only way to ensure Ukraine’s demilitarization if diplomacy fails. The nascent Russian–US “New Détente” didn’t lead to a ceasefire during the latest Putin–Trump call, thus meaning that the hot… Read More ›
Trump Would Lead The World By Example If He Recognized Crimea As Russian By Andrew Korybko Trump might recognize Crimea as Russian not because he might think that it’s the right thing to do, but as a clever tactic for encouraging… Read More ›
Russia Should Consider Accepting Syria’s Alawites As Refugees By Andrew Korybko Russia would remove what the interim Syrian authorities consider to be a “problem” from their hands, it could more quickly settle its new regions, and their ongoing base talks would… Read More ›
Will Putin Agree To A Ceasefire? By Andrew Korybko There are five compelling arguments for either scenario. Ukraine just agreed to a month-long ceasefire after talks with the US in Jeddah, but it’s conditional on Russia agreeing to the same, which remains uncertain…. Read More ›
Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged “New Détente” By Andrew Korybko Trump 2.0 must become aware of the threat that the UK poses to its plans and respond accordingly to defend the US’ interests. Russia’s Foreign… Read More ›