Five Reasons Why Counterinsurgency Remains Such A Challenge For Mali By Andrew Korybko The solutions are difficult to implement during the crisis, however, but hopefully that’ll happen after (if?) it passes. Saturday’s coordinated attacks across Mali by terrorist-designated Tuareg rebels in the rural… Read More ›
The Tuareg Are Once Again Discrediting Their Cause By Functioning As Foreign Proxies By Andrew Korybko The Tuareg cause – for as legitimate as some might consider it to be – is now being exploited by the West as a cover… Read More ›
Mali’s Support Of Morocco’s Western Sahara Autonomy Plan Will Worsen Tensions With Algeria By Andrew Korybko Russia might be forced to choose between its two partners if their tensions spiral out of control. The Malian Foreign Minister recently withdrew his country’s recognition of… Read More ›
American Moves In Libya Aim To Sever Russia’s Air Bridge To The Sahelian Alliance By Andrew Korybko This likely precedes a planned intensification of the Franco-US Hybrid War on that bloc. It was warned in February that “The US Might Make… Read More ›
France’s Latest Effort To Delegitimize The Sahelian Alliance Will Fail By Andrew Korybko The transparent purpose is to misportray this regional integration group as either Russian puppets or manipulated by Russia. Radio France International (RFI) recently drew attention to allegedly leaked… Read More ›
Dmitry Trenin, A Top Russian Expert Issues A Clarion Call For Correcting Foreign Policy Misperceptions By Andrew Korybko It’s exceedingly rare for a Russian expert to constructively critique their country’s foreign policy. Top Russian expert Dmitry Trenin was just elected President of the Russian… Read More ›
Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev: The Third Gulf War Could Destabilize Afro-Eurasia for Years By Andrew Korybko The “negative impacts on the agro-industrial complex in Asia, Africa, and Europe” can lead to widespread starvation, while “the shutdown of energy-intensive industries in Japan,… Read More ›
Russia Is Quietly Expanding Its Influence In Madagascar And The Comoros By Andrew Korybko Russia ultimately has nothing to lose and everything to gain while France has lots to lose and will struggle to retain its influence there. Le Monde reported… Read More ›
The US Might Make The Sahelian Alliance An Offer That It Can’t Refuse By Andrew Korybko Its members might be told by the Bureau of African Affairs’ chief to let the US replace or at least “balance” Russia’s role as their… Read More ›
Why Russia’s Syria Strategy Goes Far Beyond Protecting Its Military Bases By Andrew Korybko They’re all connected to its role in jointly building the “New Syria”. Syrian President Ahmed “Jolani” al-Sharaa’s second trip to Moscow in several months was widely interpreted as having… Read More ›
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