Twenty Truths About Pakistan-Taliban Ties In Light Of Their Latest Tensions By Andrew Korybko Pakistani-Taliban ties are a lot more complicated than most observers assume, especially in light of their latest tensions. They lost control over their security dilemma after their… Read More ›
Afghan Taliban
Pakistan Might Be About To Launch A “Special Military Operation” In Afghanistan
Pakistan Might Be About To Launch A “Special Military Operation” In Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko The Pakistani-Taliban security dilemma is untenable and quickly approaching the breaking point, which is why Islamabad might soon seize the initiative to decisively defend itself from… Read More ›
Shared Threat Perceptions Of The Taliban Catalysed Strategic Pakistani-Tajik Cooperation
Shared Threat Perceptions Of The Taliban Catalysed Strategic Pakistani-Tajik Cooperation By Andrew Korybko The continued leadership of the Taliban’s extremist faction poses unacceptable security risks for Pakistan and Tajikistan that impede their vision of comprehensively expanding their mutually beneficial cooperation via… Read More ›
Russia Implied That Pakistan Is Colluding With The US To Blackmail The Taliban
Russia Implied That Pakistan Is Colluding With The US To Blackmail The Taliban By Andrew Korybko The outcome of this Machiavellian policy is that regional security is jeopardized as a result, which in turn endangers Pakistan’s own objective interests even if… Read More ›
Was Western Intel Behind ISIS-K’s Terrorist Attack Against The Russian Embassy In Kabul?
Was Western Intel Behind ISIS-K’s Terrorist Attack Against The Russian Embassy In Kabul? By Andrew Korybko The Anglo-American Axis’ strategic interests are to punish Russia for its leading role in the Taliban’s geo-economic balancing act; prompt Moscow to either double down… Read More ›
Hezbollah And Syria Contradicted Alt-Media’s Emerging Narrative About Afghanistan
Hezbollah And Syria Contradicted Alt-Media’s Emerging Narrative About Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko Just because Hezbollah and Syrian representatives shared their interpretation of something doesn’t automatically mean that they’re right, but even if they’re considered to be, then that also doesn’t automatically… Read More ›
Biden Spoke The Truth About The Taliban’s Self-Interest
Biden Spoke The Truth About The Taliban’s Self-Interest By Andrew Korybko It’s understandable why these optics would concern the American public though since the average person has difficulty understanding why their government would trust a group that it still officially regards… Read More ›
Alt-Media Is Lying: ISIS-K Is Not Fake
Alt-Media Is Lying: ISIS-K Is Not Fake By Andrew Korybko Hopefully those who’ve been misled by these influential voices will challenge them to publicly account for their lies by confronting them with the facts that were shared in this analysis in… Read More ›
The Taliban Are Not Anti-India, It’s India That’s Anti-Taliban, And That’s The Problem
The Taliban Are Not Anti-India, It’s India That’s Anti-Taliban, And That’s The Problem By Andrew Korybko If Russia can get India to realize that the Taliban aren’t a security threat nor are they “Pakistani proxies”, then it can very easily help… Read More ›
ISIS-K’s Kabul Airport Terrorist Attacks Were Inevitable
ISIS-K’s Kabul Airport Terrorist Attacks Were Inevitable By Andrew Korybko The world’s eyes are on that site so any terrorist group, let alone one as publicly-hungry as ISIS-K, would have regarded it as too tempting of a target to pass up…. Read More ›