Russia Rebuked The Hawks By Confirming That It Won’t Test Nukes Unless The US Does So First By Andrew Korybko Putin doesn’t want the US thinking that he’s about to escalate and thus tempt it into escalating first in a way… Read More ›
Geopolitics
What Was A Japanese Spy Doing In Belarus?
What Was A Japanese Spy Doing In Belarus? By Andrew Korybko Japan was passing everything along to its Western partners in the implied hopes of them then supporting it more in its own part of the world. Belarusian media reported earlier… Read More ›
Fact Check: The Russian Ambassador To Pakistan Wasn’t Targeted By Terrorists
Fact Check: The Russian Ambassador To Pakistan Wasn’t Targeted By Terrorists By Andrew Korybko Influential accounts have a responsibility to their audience to perform due diligence before sharing their opinion about extremely sensitive news items like this one. A remote-controlled improvised… Read More ›
Armenia Isn’t All That Important To Iran’s Economic And National Security
Armenia Isn’t All That Important To Iran’s Economic And National Security By Andrew Korybko Iran has ulterior motives for opposing the Zangezur Corridor. Iran’s continued opposition to the Zangezur Corridor, which was earlier analysed here and here, is predicated on the assumption that… Read More ›
Lavrov Explained What Russia Hopes To Achieve By Talking About Its Red Lines
Lavrov Explained What Russia Hopes To Achieve By Talking About Its Red Lines By Andrew Korybko Such rhetoric should be taken seriously, not downplayed, but it also shouldn’t be exaggerated either. Lavrov gave an insightful interview to Sky News Arabia in which he… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Refusal To Exhume And Properly Bury The Volhynia Genocide’s Victims Enrages Poles
Ukraine’s Refusal To Exhume And Properly Bury The Volhynia Genocide’s Victims Enrages Poles By Andrew Korybko Poles are waking up to the dark reality of contemporary Ukrainian nationalism. Casual observers might be surprised that a World War II-era genocide of over 100,000… Read More ›
The US Now Wants To Shift The Burden Of Ukraine Onto Its European Colonies
The US Now Wants To Shift The Burden Of Ukraine Onto Its European Colonies By Uriel Araujo About Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg now says: “I welcome these developments and these decisions but it’s for individual allies… Read More ›
Russian-Pakistani Relations Are Surprisingly Taking On Strategic Dimensions
Russian-Pakistani Relations Are Surprisingly Taking On Strategic Dimensions By Andrew Korybko Nothing major has yet to be agreed to, but that might change if Pakistan musters the political will to defy the US, which Russia evidently thinks is possible. Russian Deputy… Read More ›
Analysing Israel’s Audacious Pager Attack Against Hezbollah
Analysing Israel’s Audacious Pager Attack Against Hezbollah By Andrew Korybko It’s not a game-changer, but a gamble to either de-escalate or escalate the conflict in ways that advance Israel’s interests as Bibi perceives them to be, which is why a continuation… Read More ›
The “War Of Attrition” Was Improvised And Not Russia’s Plan All Along
The “War Of Attrition” Was Improvised And Not Russia’s Plan All Along By Andrew Korybko People should be mature enough to accept that no country is perfect, not even their favorite one like Russia, and that setbacks are an unavoidable part… Read More ›
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