Interpreting Zelensky’s Shifting Goalposts For Victory By Andrew Korybko He finally accepts the impossibility of restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders. Zelensky recently told ABC News that “Victory, to my mind, Putin’s goal is to occupy Ukraine, this is to destroy us, occupy, and… Read More ›
Duelling Military Drills Might Become The New Normal In Central And Eastern Europe By Andrew Korybko This dynamic is driven by the Western elite’s geopolitical interests in fearmongering about Russia and their economic ones in enriching themselves from this through investments… Read More ›
Speculation Is Swirling About The Future Of Turkiye’s S-400s By Andrew Korybko The stage is set for a grand deal between the US, Turkiye, Russia, and India, at least in theory and only tacitly in the case of the US-Russia, US-India,… Read More ›
Why Did Polish Officials Contradict Trump On The Reason Behind Russia’s Drone Incursion? By Andrew Korybko The US-Polish divide over this issue isn’t all that important so long as Tusk and Sikorski don’t repeat their irresponsible past statements about Trump being… Read More ›
Pakistan Can Tip The Balance Of Power In Central Asia By Andrew Korybko Colluding with the US on destabilizing Afghanistan and returning Western military infrastructure to the region would turbocharge the emerging Turkic Bloc’s rise at the expense of Russia’s influence… Read More ›
The Five Most Likely Outcomes From The Russian Drone Incursion Into Poland By Andrew Korybko Some commentators on both sides think that this might lead to World War III. NATO forces directly intercepted Russian drones for the first time since the special operation began… Read More ›
The Reported Russian Drone Incursions Into Poland Might Have Been Due To NATO Jamming By Andrew Korybko It’s unlikely that Russia would risk rallying the West around a no-fly zone over Ukraine by staging a deliberate provocation against Poland or even… Read More ›
Duda Belatedly Confirms That Zelensky Tried To Manipulate Poland Into War With Russia By Andrew Korybko To Poland’s credit, it didn’t fall for this trap, which could have sparked a fast-moving sequence of events that might have spiralled into World War… Read More ›
Russia Probably Didn’t Deliberately Target The Cabinet Of Ministers Building In Kiev By Andrew Korybko It’s difficult to imagine typically cautious and restrained Putin losing his cool and recklessly giving European warmongers exactly what they need for raising the chances that… Read More ›
There Might Be More To The Von Der Leyen-GPS-Russia Hoax Than Scoring Cheap Infowar Points By Andrew Korybko NATO might exploit this hoax as the pretext for commencing large-scale but “plausibly deniable” electronic warfare provocations against Kaliningrad that could spike the… Read More ›
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