Russia And Iran Can Use Carrots And Sticks To Get Azerbaijan To Demilitarize TRIPP By Andrew Korybko President Ilham Aliyev is a rational leader who might conclude that it’s better to cut mutually beneficial deals with Russia and Iran for resolving… 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 ›
How Much Of A Strategic Game-Changer Would It Be If Australia Hosts US Nukes? By Andrew Korybko The unmistakable trend is that US-backed blocs are spreading across the Eurasian Rimland for containing Russia, Iran, and China. Secretary of the Russian Security… 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 ›
Why’s Trump Preparing To “Escalate To De-Escalate” With Russia? By Andrew Korybko He feels personally insulted by Putin rejecting his proposal to freeze the conflict in exchange for a resource-centric strategic partnership and also, whether one agrees with him or not,… 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 ›
The Global Hybrid War Intensifies: Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, Venezuela, And The Future Of Brazil By Andrew Korybko Here’s the English-language version of the interview that I gave to Forças Terrestres’ Alexandre Galante on recent events. 1. You have written for years… 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 ›