What’s Behind Iran And Ukraine’s Sudden Mutual De-Escalation? By Andrew Korybko The US, Iran, and possibly also Russia appear to have calculated that it’s not in their interests, only in Ukraine’s and Israel’s. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi’s latest tweet came as… Read More ›
The Pentagon’s Trillion-Dollar Crisis Threatens America’s Superpower Status By Uriel Araujo Despite spending more than $1 trillion annually on defence, the United States faces procurement failures, industrial decline, leadership turmoil, and mounting costs from the Iran conflict. Growing fiscal dysfunction and… Read More ›
Foreign Affairs Is Right: The Old Model Of Nuclear Deterrence Is No More By Andrew Korybko The Ukrainian Conflict, the West Asian Wars, and spring 2025’s Indo-Pak clashes upended the past nearly 80 years’ worth of presumptions about strategic security with… Read More ›
Will Trump Choose Turkey Over Israel? NATO’s “Turkish Question” Comes To A Head By Uriel Araujo As Trump embraces Turkey’s Erdogan and opens the door to F-35 sales, Israel increasingly fears isolation. Long-simmering tensions within NATO are now exploding into view,… Read More ›
Will Russia Learn From The US’ Defeat In The Third Gulf War? By Andrew Korybko As Valdai Club’s Research Director Fyodor Lukyanov wrote, “Tehran just showed why military supremacy no longer guarantees political victory.” The memorandum of understanding (MoU) that was just signed… Read More ›
Trump Cut A Deal With Iran, But Can He Restrain Israel? By Uriel Araujo The US-Iran ceasefire has allowed both sides to claim victory, yet Tehran has secured the more enduring strategic gains, with sanctions relief, and strategic leverage. Washington now… Read More ›
Pakistan Is Poised To Benefit The Most From The End Of Iran War By Andrew Korybko The common denominator is that these benefits could empower Pakistan to truly become a regional power to be reckoned with if it successfully expands its… Read More ›
Here’s How Iran Pulled Off The Upset Of The Century By Andrew Korybko Few outside of Iran, its “Resistance Axis”, and their international supporters thought that it would avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Many expected that Iran would… Read More ›
The Iran War And The End Of Uncontested American Primacy By Uriel Araujo As the Iran crisis reshapes the geopolitical landscape, Washington faces mounting strategic, military and financial pressures. New analyses suggest that the age of uncontested US primacy may already… Read More ›
Has Iran Ended Its Drought By Destroying A US-Israel Weather Weapon? By Uriel Araujo Iran’s unexpected return of rainfall has sparked allegations of covert weather manipulation involving the US and Israel. Although the claims remain unproven, documented weather-modification programs, emerging geoengineering… Read More ›