The Shadow Front: How the Iran Crisis Is Fuelling The New Af-Pak Conflict By Uriel Araujo The deadly Kabul hospital strike signals a dangerous escalation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict. As global attention centres on Iran, a parallel crisis deepens. Economic isolation,… Read More ›
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Assessing The Economist’s Argument That Trump Has No Good Options In Iran
Assessing The Economist’s Argument That Trump Has No Good Options In Iran By Andrew Korybko Of these four, the relatively least bad from the perspective of Trump 2.0’s interests are talking and escalating, the first if its interests are taken at… Read More ›
Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev: The Third Gulf War Could Destabilize Afro-Eurasia for Years
Putin’s Top Aide Patrushev: The Third Gulf War Could Destabilize Afro-Eurasia for Years By Andrew Korybko The “negative impacts on the agro-industrial complex in Asia, Africa, and Europe” can lead to widespread starvation, while “the shutdown of energy-intensive industries in Japan,… Read More ›
Why Might The Kremlin And The White House Be Covering Up Russian Intel Aid To Iran?
Why Might The Kremlin And The White House Be Covering Up Russian Intel Aid To Iran? By Andrew Korybko They might not want US hawks to obsess over the scandalous optics of Trump 2.0 continuing its talks with Russia while Russia… Read More ›
Where Is Netanyahu? Questions Mount Over Who Really Runs US And Israeli Policy
Where Is Netanyahu? Questions Mount Over Who Really Runs US And Israeli Policy By Uriel Araujo Joe Kent’s resignation and Netanyahu’s unexplained absences are fuelling doubts about who truly directs both US and Israeli policy. Speculation over influence networks, AI-edited videos,… Read More ›
Sri Lanka Wisely Rejected The US’ Request To Station Two Warplanes There
Sri Lanka Wisely Rejected The US’ Request To Station Two Warplanes There By Andrew Korybko The US would have benefited from turning Mattala International Airport into its regional military hub, not to mention striking Iran from there during the ongoing war,… Read More ›
عیدِ محکوماں، ہجومِ مومنیں
عیدِ محکوماں، ہجومِ مومنیں ڈاکٹر مقصود جعفری
Trump Might Have Approved Israel’s South Pars Strike After Iran Flirted With The Petroyuan
Trump Might Have Approved Israel’s South Pars Strike After Iran Flirted With The Petroyuan By Andrew Korybko The attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field was a strategic manoeuvre designed to sabotage the rise of the “petroyuan” and reinforce the global… Read More ›
Russia’s Top UN Representative Reminded The World Of The West’s Responsibility To Afghanistan
Russia’s Top UN Representative Reminded The World Of The West’s Responsibility To Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko The US has a moral responsibility to return Afghanistan’s seized assets, but morality doesn’t guide US policy, let alone under Trump 2.0 given its Hyper-Realist… Read More ›
“Not One Molecule”? How The War In Iran Is Forcing Europe’s Strategic Retreat To Russian Energy
“Not One Molecule”? How The War In Iran Is Forcing Europe’s Strategic Retreat To Russian Energy By Uriel Araujo Brussels maintains its hard-line rhetoric on Russian gas, yet internal divisions and energy shocks are growing. Trump’s moves and Middle East escalation… Read More ›