Russia’s New 1945 War Monument Signals The Revival Of Its Historic Rivalry With Japan By Andrew Korybko It wasn’t Russia that’s responsible for this, but the US, which refused to allow its de facto Japanese protectorate to settle their dispute over… Read More ›
Russia Courts BRICS To Break NATO’s Arctic Containment By Andrew Korybko Russia’s overarching strategy appears to be to encourage the largest number of countries to obtain stakes in the Arctic’s energy, transport, and logistics projects so as to incentivize them to… Read More ›
China’s Ambassador To Russia Warned That Japan’s Remilitarisation Could Trigger World War III By Andrew Korybko If the “Japanese Question” (for lack of a better term) isn’t soon peacefully resolved, then the risk of World War III breaking out in Northeast… Read More ›
A Pragmatically Amended 1956 Compromise Could Finally Resolve The Kuril Islands Issue By Andrew Korybko The amended 1956 compromise put forth in this piece would advance their interests and arguably also America’s as well but requires Russia to make the first… Read More ›
Why Putin Lamented The Worsening Of Russian-Japanese Relations By Andrew Korybko An escalation in their tensions might be inevitable as Japan assumes leadership of the Northeast Asian front of the “cordon sanitaire” that the US built around Russia over the past… Read More ›
The US Is Implementing The NATO 3.0 Concept In Asia Through AUKUS+ By Andrew Korybko The US is replicating its anti-Russian regional containment model against China. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave a landmark speech in Manilla during the first… Read More ›
Japan’s New Strike Capabilities Could Tighten The Northeast Asian “Cordon Sanitaire” Around Russia By Andrew Korybko Its temporary hosting of the US’ short- and medium-range Typhon missile systems combines with its interest in Ukraine’s state-of-the-art drone technology to pose formidable threats… Read More ›
The Motives Behind The NYT’s Story About Russian Spies In Japan Are Self-Evident By Andrew Korybko The goal is to spark Russophobic spy hysteria among Japanese society and the state alike for falsely legitimizing tougher anti-Russian policies that result in the… 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 ›
The US Doesn’t Need Tomahawks In Germany To Keep Tightening The Noose Around Russia By Andrew Korybko Such a move wouldn’t substantively alleviate the newfound pressure upon Russia brought about by the tightening of the containment noose around it in the… Read More ›