Pakistan Can Tip The Balance Of Power In Central Asia By Andrew Korybko Colluding with the US on destabilizing Afghanistan and returning Western military infrastructure to the region would turbocharge the emerging Turkic Bloc’s rise at the expense of Russia’s influence… Read More ›
The Establishment Of Armenian-Pakistani Diplomatic Ties Is Part Of A Larger Powerplay By Andrew Korybko It’s about turbocharging the emerging Turkish-Azeri-Pak bloc by giving Islamabad access to TRIPP for facilitating trade with Turkiye and Europe in order to consolidate this bloc’s… Read More ›
Iran’s Planned Railway To The Black Sea Will Be Dependent On Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko A popular Telegram channel falsely claimed that this is a “checkmate to US/Zangezur plans” and even shared a map showing a different route than what was… Read More ›
Russian-Azerbaijani Tensions Are Quickly Heating Up Over Ukraine By Andrew Korybko None of this would be happening if the US didn’t squeeze Russia out of the Zangezur Corridor with Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s assistance. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received a call from Zelensky on… Read More ›
The TRIPP Corridor Threatens To Undermine Russia’s Broader Regional Position By Andrew Korybko Armenia might defect from the CSTO while Turkish and NATO influence could surge all along Russia’s southern periphery, which might embolden Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to defy Iran and… Read More ›
The “Trump Bridge” Could Lead To Russia’s Expulsion From The South Caucasus By Andrew Korybko Armenia might formally withdraw from the CSTO and then replace Russian troops with American PMCs. US Ambassador to Turkiye Tom Barrack proposed in mid-July that his country lease… Read More ›
A Famous 19th-Century Russian Painter Is At The Centre Of The Latest Tensions With Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko The scandal over Azerbaijan’s demolition of a monument to Ivan Aivazovsky in the former “Nagorno-Karabakh” region dramatically escalated after Baku threatened to shutter… Read More ›
Indo-Pakistani Rivalry Reshaping Global Geopolitics: A Conflict Neither Local Nor Over By Uriel Araujo The long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan is not confined to South Asia. The rivalry is entangling the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Eurasian alliances — posing… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From Aliyev’s Q And A Session At The Shusha Global Media Forum By Andrew Korybko He’s still ruffling Russia’s feathers over Ukraine and the AZAL tragedy, but he restrained himself from going further, so the door might thus be… Read More ›
The Kremlin Believes That “Certain Forces” Want To Disrupt Russian-Azerbaijani Relations By Andrew Korybko Ukraine, Azeri hardliners, Turkiye, the US, and the UK all have an interest in this. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decision to stir up highly publicized trouble with Russia caught… Read More ›
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