Trump’s Interest In Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals Might Backfire On Zelensky By Andrew Korybko Instead of abandoning his efforts to freeze the Ukrainian Conflict by doubling down on military aid in the hopes that Zelensky’s forces will then recapture these deposits… Read More ›
Time Magazine Is Wrong: Putin’s Nuke Threats Made The US Give Up On Restoring Ukraine’s Borders By Andrew Korybko History is being rewritten as a former senior official from the Biden Administration counterfactually claims that the US never wanted to restore… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Territorial Concessions Might Precede A Ceasefire That Leads To New Ukrainian Elections By Andrew Korybko The path to peace will predictably be paved by a ceasefire, which will itself likely require some territorial concessions on Ukraine’s part in order for… Read More ›
Why Did Trump Just Repost His Threat To Impose 100% Tariffs On BRICS Countries? By Andrew Korybko A full-fledged economic pressure campaign by the US against the BRICS countries might be imminent. Trump reposted late November’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on… Read More ›
France Won’t Fight The US Over Greenland By Andrew Korybko It’s not going to risk breaking up NATO, let alone over a war that it’ll certainly lose, no matter how tough its Foreign Minister is trying to sound as part of… Read More ›
Poland Won’t Send Troops To Belarus Or Ukraine Without Trump’s Approval By Andrew Korybko Trump is unlikely to extend Article 5 guarantees to Polish troops in Belarus and Ukraine, who’d be attacked by Russia the moment that they intervene, so Lukashenko’s… Read More ›
Trump’s Tariff Threats And Renaming Controversies: Straining Mexican-American Relations By Uriel Araujo Trump’s statements and measures not only alienate neighbours such as Mexico (foreign-policy wise) but also, in terms of domestic policy and ethnopolitical issues, have the potential to further alienate… Read More ›
The Example That Trump Made Out Of Colombia Will Reverberate Across The World By Andrew Korybko Trump is preparing for negotiations with Putin over Ukraine as well as with Xi over trade and likely also Taiwan, so he’d appear weak in… Read More ›
Trump’s Gaza Proposal Takes A Page From Ralph Peters’ “Blood Borders” By Andrew Korybko He might have convinced himself that ethnically cleansing the Palestinians is the only way to decisively end the conflict, ensure Israel’s long-term security, and restore regional business… Read More ›
The US’ 90-Day Suspension Of Foreign Aid Might Counterintuitively Bolster Its Influence By Andrew Korybko American influence might rebound in the Global South since a large part of why many of these countries started turning away from the US since the… Read More ›