Russian Arms And Speculative Wagner Training Could Help Somalia Defeat Al Shabaab By Andrew Korybko Somalia’s top priority is to fully restore its sovereignty by defeating Al Shabaab, thus guaranteeing the withdrawal of those international forces that are currently stationed in… Read More ›
Africa
The US Is Rolling Out A New Lie For Pressuring African States To Cut Off Ties With Wagner
The US Is Rolling Out A New Lie For Pressuring African States To Cut Off Ties With Wagner By Andrew Korybko The emerging policy is that Russian-friendly states that contract Wagner’s “Democratic Security” services will be targeted with accusations of secretly… Read More ›
Bloomberg Wants The West To Punish African States Over Their Preferred Security Partners
Bloomberg Wants The West To Punish African States Over Their Preferred Security Partners By Andrew Korybko This condescendingly suggests that the West knows what’s better for African states’ security than their own governments do. Bloomberg’s demand for the West to punish… Read More ›
American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa
American Officials Told Politico Their Plan For Waging Hybrid War Against Wagner In Africa By Andrew Korybko While America is ramping up its operations to counter Wagner’s growing popularity across Africa, it lacks the credibility to advance its goal through information… Read More ›
Burkina Faso’s Strategic Alliance With Russia Will Further Stabilize West Africa
Burkina Faso’s Strategic Alliance With Russia Will Further Stabilize West Africa By Andrew Korybko Russia has been able to achieve what neither France nor the US could (or wanted to according to cynical interpretations), which is bolstering its partners’ military capabilities… Read More ›
Russia Is Right: “Political Engineering” From Abroad Is Responsible For Crisis In Sudan
Russia Is Right: “Political Engineering” From Abroad Is Responsible For Crisis In Sudan By Andrew Korybko The present piece elaborates more on why Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Yevstigneyeva is right, which is important to understand since such… Read More ›
A Senior Pentagon Official Strongly Implied Impending “Mission Creep” In Sudan
A Senior Pentagon Official Strongly Implied Impending “Mission Creep” In Sudan By Andrew Korybko Now that its “VIPs” are out of harm’s way, the US can up the ante in Sudan on a “humanitarian” pretext as part of its latest anti-Russian… Read More ›
Here’s Why The US Is Trying To Pin The Blame For Sudan’s “Deep State” War On Russia
Here’s Why The US Is Trying To Pin The Blame For Sudan’s “Deep State” War On Russia By Andrew Korybko In the event that Burhan repeats this emerging anti-Russian narrative and promises to rubbish Sudan’s naval base deal with Moscow upon… Read More ›
Sudan’s “Deep State” War Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences If It Continues
Sudan’s “Deep State” War Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences If It Continues By Andrew Korybko Seeing as how Egypt, Ethiopia, Russia, the UAE, and the US all have important interests in Sudan, it’s clear that this latest African conflict could indeed… Read More ›
Common Sense, Not Conspiracy Theories, Accounts For Africans’ Embrace Of Russian Media
Common Sense, Not Conspiracy Theories, Accounts For Africans’ Embrace Of Russian Media By Andrew Korybko What Russian and affiliated media provide is another way to interpret events across the world, and unlike the West, that country doesn’t have a toxic legacy… Read More ›