Eurasian Connectivity Was At The Top Of The Agenda During Putin’s Trip To Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko The lasting outcome of his talks with Aliyev inordinately depends on the future of Azerbaijani-Iranian relations and to a lesser extent on Azerbaijani-Indian ones… Read More ›
Kazakhstan’s Ambitious Regionalization Vision Presents Obstacles And Opportunities For Russia By Andrew Korybko Trilateral Russian-Iranian-Indian cooperation could gently balance Turkiye’s rapidly expanding influence in Central Asia. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shared an ambitious regionalization vision in his de facto manifesto earlier… Read More ›
Fake News Alert: Iran Isn’t Plotting To Strike Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko Iran knows that NATO-member Turkiye is Azerbaijan’s mutual defence ally so a wider war could easily follow if Iran strikes Azerbaijan out of the misguided desire to de-escalate tensions… Read More ›
Interpreting Iran’s Continued Opposition To The Zangezur Corridor By Andrew Korybko This policy is self-serving and justified on false pretexts, but it’s Iran’s sovereign right to promulgate in advance of what its leadership regards as their national interests. The Iranian Supreme… Read More ›
Debunking Politico’s Claim About The Reason Why Armenia Wants To Ditch The CSTO By Andrew Korybko Belarus’ speculative military cooperation with Azerbaijan was much less than Russia’s provably documented arms sales to that country so there’s no way that the recent… Read More ›
Armenia Will Expose Itself To Serious Risks If It Goes Through With Leaving The CSTO By Andrew Korybko Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye might decide to forcibly “demilitarize” Armenia once Russia no longer has any CSTO mutual defence commitments to it in order… Read More ›
Was The Iranian Helicopter Crash An Accident Or An Assassination? By Andrew Korybko The Mainstream Media always blames the West’s geopolitical adversaries without any evidence and solely based on vibes-driven speculation whenever something goes wrong on their side of the world,… Read More ›
France Is Trying To Scapegoat Azerbaijan For The Unrest In New Caledonia By Andrew Korybko It’s much easier to try pinning the blame on Baku than to admit that the National Assembly’s move to dilute the local Kanaks’ voting rights was… Read More ›
The Ultra-Nationalist Armenian Diaspora Wants To Punish Pashinyan For His Peace Push By Andrew Korybko The US is on the backfoot in the South Caucasus, but it still has enough influence in Armenian and Georgian society via the ultra-nationalist diaspora and… Read More ›
The West Simply Shrugged As Rioters Tried Storming The Georgian Parliament In A J6 Redux By Andrew Korybko The larger geopolitical agenda at play is to replace the Georgian government with Western puppets in order to facilitate NATO’s military logistics to… Read More ›
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