US Pressure Might Inadvertently Bring India And China Back Together By Andrew Korybko Any meaningful improvement of Sino-Indo ties, especially in the economic dimension, could prompt Trump to either walk back his hardline policy on India to court it away from… Read More ›
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Poland’s New President Is Picking Fights With His Prime Minister, The EU, And Russia
Poland’s New President Is Picking Fights With His Prime Minister, The EU, And Russia By Andrew Korybko This is true to his character as an amateur boxer. Poland’s new president Karol Nawrocki came out swinging against Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the… Read More ›
Signals And Sanctions: Serbia’s Uneasy Dance With Russia And The EU
Signals And Sanctions: Serbia’s Uneasy Dance With Russia And The EU By Andrew Korybko For as pro-Western as Serbia’s foreign policy course becomes, Russia continues to eschew pressuring it and meddling in its affairs, which sharply contrasts with the West ramping… Read More ›
What’s Responsible For The Upcoming Putin-Trump Summit?
What’s Responsible For The Upcoming Putin-Trump Summit? By Andrew Korybko One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve… Read More ›
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated By Andrew Korybko Polar opposite understandings of the Sino-Indo prisoner’s dilemma lie at the core of their calculations. Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin… Read More ›
Von Der Leyen Just Subordinated The EU As The US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State
Von Der Leyen Just Subordinated The EU As The US’ Largest-Ever Vassal State By Andrew Korybko This outcome places the US on the path of restoring its unipolar hegemony via sequential lopsided trade deals as it likely sets its sights on… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From Aliyev’s Q And A Session At The Shusha Global Media Forum
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 ›
More Promises Of Western Aid Emboldened Ukraine To Neutralize Anti-Corruption Institutions
More Promises Of Western Aid Emboldened Ukraine To Neutralize Anti-Corruption Institutions By Andrew Korybko Ukraine’s gravy train will continue chugging along, fuelled by Western taxpayers’ funds, though all this promised aid will only perpetuate the proxy war on Russia instead of… Read More ›
Trump’s Latest Remarks About GERD Raise Questions About His Understanding Of This Dispute
Trump’s Latest Remarks About GERD Raise Questions About His Understanding Of This Dispute By Andrew Korybko Siding with Egypt signals support for its next proxy war on Ethiopia that could destabilize key US allies. Trump scandalously predicted during his first term that Egypt… Read More ›
Nawrocki’s Election Pushed Tusk To Play Hardball With Poland’s Neighbours On Illegal Immigration
Nawrocki’s Election Pushed Tusk To Play Hardball With Poland’s Neighbours On Illegal Immigration By Andrew Korybko What’s most important to him personally is retaining power by preventing the collapse of his government, but if that’s unavoidable, then he at the very… Read More ›