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 ›
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US Should Send European Troops, Not NATO, To Ukraine, Say Some Within US Establishment
US Should Send European Troops, Not NATO, To Ukraine, Say Some Within US Establishment By Uriel Araujo In a Schrödinger’s cat kind of reasoning, Crowther, Matisek, and O’Brien argue in the aforementioned piece that in the scenario they propose, “European forces would… Read More ›
Macron Keeps Discrediting France By Making Mistake After Mistake On The Foreign Policy Front
Macron Keeps Discrediting France By Making Mistake After Mistake On The Foreign Policy Front By Andrew Korybko At this rate, there’s no longer any credible chance that France will revive its independent foreign policy traditions after the five major foreign policy… Read More ›
Paris Accuses Moscow Of Implying French Secret Services Helped Crocus City Hall Terrorists
Paris Accuses Moscow Of Implying French Secret Services Helped Crocus City Hall Terrorists By Uriel Araujo France has halted talks with Russia over differing accounts on a phone call pertaining mainly to the Moscow terror attack. Paris is also denying… Read More ›
Would NATO Really Hang France Out To Dry If Russia Pulverized Its Forces In Ukraine?
Would NATO Really Hang France Out To Dry If Russia Pulverized Its Forces In Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko Even if Macron has too much pride to request assistance, the bloc as a whole could still rally behind France anyhow, or a… Read More ›
France Knows Better Than For Its Foreign Minister To Demand That China Condemns Russia
France Knows Better Than For Its Foreign Minister To Demand That China Condemns Russia By Andrew Korybko France’s top diplomat represents global interests and lacks any fundamental knowledge of the sphere in which he works. New French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne told his… Read More ›
Can The US Salvage Its Nigerien Base Deal?
Can The US Salvage Its Nigerien Base Deal? By Andrew Korybko The resolution of this dispute will reveal a lot about the Nigerien military leadership’s internal dynamics, which can in turn enable astute observers to better predict the policies that they… Read More ›
France Will Likely Seek To Secure Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast If It Conventionally Intervenes
France Will Likely Seek To Secure Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast If It Conventionally Intervenes By Andrew Korybko Romania and Moldova, where France already has troops and just signed a security pact that might soon lead to the same, could easily serve… Read More ›
Poland Is Poised To Play An Indispensable Role In Germany’s “Fortress Europe”
Poland Is Poised To Play An Indispensable Role In Germany’s “Fortress Europe” By Andrew Korybko Poland is now working hand-in-glove with Germany to turbocharge the latter’s superpower trajectory and especially its military component, which is reshaping European geopolitics and is therefore… Read More ›
Putin’s Talk Of Setting Up A “Security Zone” In Ukraine Hints At A Potential Compromise
Putin’s Talk Of Setting Up A “Security Zone” In Ukraine Hints At A Potential Compromise By Andrew Korybko If the military-strategic dynamics remain on track and the West is still led by “rational” leaders with an interest in preventing a nuclear… Read More ›