Russia Faces Three Strategic Challenges That It Can’t Afford To Ignore By Andrew Korybko The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign… Read More ›
The Pentagon Is Building NATO 3.0 Around The ‘Bergen Group’ By Andrew Korybko It’s the US preferred “small-group setting” for “driving progress toward NATO 3.0’s” European-led containment of Russia. Politico recently reported that “Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting” in… Read More ›
How Realistic Is Tusk’s Proposal For A Baltic Sub-Bloc Within NATO? By Andrew Korybko The northwestern flank of the new “cordon sanitaire” around Russia might soon harden. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk predictably opined on his country’s contemporary military-security policy during… Read More ›
How Likely Is A NATO-Russia Clash Around 2030? By Andrew Korybko If Russia continues fighting this “war of attrition” for years to come instead of decisively ending it soon, then it’ll be more vulnerable than ever to the “cordon sanitaire’s” invasion… Read More ›
Trump Isn’t Leaving The Ukraine War, He’s Moving It To Russia’s Energy Sector By Uriel Araujo Washington is increasingly concentrated on Russian energy and critical mineral assets despite rhetoric of reduced involvement in Ukraine. The Treasury’s recent actions increase American oversight… Read More ›
Trump Now Seeks US Control Over Russia’s State-Owned Natural Resource Companies By Andrew Korybko Trump believes that it’s now possible to obtain the “holy grail” that eluded the US even during the heyday of its unipolar hegemony in the 1990s due… Read More ›
Why’s Trump Preparing To “Escalate To De-Escalate” With Russia? By Andrew Korybko He feels personally insulted by Putin rejecting his proposal to freeze the conflict in exchange for a resource-centric strategic partnership and also, whether one agrees with him or not,… Read More ›
The US Doesn’t Need Tomahawks In Germany To Keep Tightening The Noose Around Russia By Andrew Korybko Such a move wouldn’t substantively alleviate the newfound pressure upon Russia brought about by the tightening of the containment noose around it in the… Read More ›
Turkiye’s Reportedly Proposed Military Pipeline To Romania Will Worsen Tensions With Russia By Andrew Korybko The Polish-led “cordon sanitaire” that’s taking shape along Russia’s western borders will connect with the Turkish-led one that’s poised to emerge along its southern borders, thus… Read More ›
Fast‑Tracking Ukraine Into The EU Would De Facto Strengthen Federalist Ambitions By Andrew Korybko The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from… Read More ›