Europe’s Expansion Obsession: A Cover For Decline By Uriel Araujo With Ukraine, the Balkans, and even the Caucasus on its radar, the EU faces a paradox: enlargement as a strategy may heighten Europe’s internal fractures and reveal deeper Western vulnerabilities. European… Read More ›
Poland’s Infrastructure Plans In Ukraine Could Revive Its Historical Rivalry With Russia There By Andrew Korybko The military-strategic consequences might further reduce Russia’s interest in any political compromise that allows for this to happen. The new chief of Poland’s State Treasury-owned Industrial Development… Read More ›
How Far Will The German Elite Go In Resisting The Winds Of Change? By Andrew Korybko Banning the AfD, more “statistically conspicuous” deaths of its candidates, and even a repeat of the Romanian scenario can’t be ruled out as the nationalist… Read More ›
Estonia’s Airspace Violation Allegation Against Russia Is Politically Self-Serving By Andrew Korybko It’s difficult to believe that Russia would so brazenly provoke NATO at the risk of ruining talks with the US and consequently escalating tensions, but that’s what some want… Read More ›
The Ukrainian Ambassador To Poland Admitted That His Co-Ethnics Don’t Want To Assimilate By Andrew Korybko The combination of many Ukrainians remaining adherents of Bandera’s ideology, their ultra-nationalists’ claims to parts of Poland, and their Ambassador to Poland’s confirmation that his… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Overreach In Africa: From Proxy War In Europe To Proxy Adventurism Abroad By Uriel Araujo Reports suggest Ukrainian weapons and operatives are fuelling conflicts in Mali, Sudan, and Libya, in its push to “counter Russia”. While Kiev brands its outreach… Read More ›
Decoding The Logic Behind The U.S. Draft National Defence Strategy By Andrew Korybko Policymakers are preparing for the worst-case scenario from their perspective, the US’ expulsion from the Eastern Hemisphere, hence their new goal of urgently achieving strategic autarky in the… Read More ›
Hungary Warned About Brussels’ Three Regime Change Plots In Central Europe By Andrew Korybko These are being advanced through a combination of information warfare and support for anti-government (Brussels-organized) “NGOs” (BONGOs). Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warned in a Facebook post last month… Read More ›
The Saudi-Pak Mutual Defence Pact Is Mostly Symbolic For Soft Power’s Sake By Andrew Korybko Both want to “save face” after Israel’s attack on Qatar and remind fellow Muslims about the importance of more intra-Ummah military-technical cooperation, not set the stage… Read More ›
Assessing Russia’s Claims That Ukraine Is Responsible For Terrorism All Across Africa By Andrew Korybko The US has the power to put a stop to this by threatening to cut Ukraine off if it refuses but won’t because it believes that… Read More ›
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