Russia Courts BRICS To Break NATO’s Arctic Containment By Andrew Korybko Russia’s overarching strategy appears to be to encourage the largest number of countries to obtain stakes in the Arctic’s energy, transport, and logistics projects so as to incentivize them to… Read More ›
Is Russia Really Plotting To Test NATO’s Resolve? By Andrew Korybko It’s actually NATO that might soon test Russia’s resolve. Politico cited unnamed officials to report that CIA chief John Ratcliffe’s unannounced trip to Russia was primarily meant to warn it against… Read More ›
The UK Reminded The World Of Its Historical Role In Containing Russia By Andrew Korybko It’s accordingly expected to soon contribute to the Asian fronts of the new “cordon sanitaire” around Russia. New British Prime Minister Andy Burnham gave a speech in Kiev… Read More ›
Poland Pushes “European Legion” With Ukrainian Veterans As Europe Rearms Against Russia By Uriel Araujo Poland is reviving its “European Legion” proposal as Europe prepares to assume a larger share of NATO’s military burden. Poland’s Sikorski now envisages Ukrainian combat veterans… Read More ›
Is Sikorski’s “European Legion” A Loophole For Deploying Polish Troops To Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko Conservative President Karol Nawrocki is Poland’s Commander-in-Chief, but if the ruling liberal coalition’s Defence Minister places some Polish troops under EU control through the “European Legion”,… Read More ›
Peskov Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised By Tusk’s Defence Of The Nord Stream Sabotage By Andrew Korybko Simply put, it’s par for the course for European leaders to support all actions – including terrorism – aimed against Russia, and especially so in… Read More ›
Could Western Europe And The Intermarium Open Rival Dialogues With Russia? By Andrew Korybko A back-to-back reading of two recent reports suggests that this scenario can’t be ruled out. Finnish President Alexander Stubb intriguingly told local media that “At some point, dialogue will… Read More ›
A Pragmatically Amended 1956 Compromise Could Finally Resolve The Kuril Islands Issue By Andrew Korybko The amended 1956 compromise put forth in this piece would advance their interests and arguably also America’s as well but requires Russia to make the first… Read More ›
It’s Premature For Russia’s Supporters To Celebrate The Coalition Of The Willing’s “Slow Death” By Andrew Korybko Instead of recklessly risking World War III through the deployment of their troops to Ukraine after a ceasefire, they might instead more pragmatically strengthen… Read More ›
Is Germany Quietly Preparing To Become Europe’s Next Nuclear Power? By Andrew Korybko Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service reported that it’s moving in this direction. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s announcement in mid-July that his country will participate in a French nuclear drill for the… Read More ›