France’s Next Quarterly Nuclear Drills Might Become Prestige-Building Exercises With Poland By Andrew Korybko Poland might participate in these exercises in order to send a strong anti-Russian signal, but the extent to which it might pivot towards France and away from… Read More ›
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Assessing Russian Hardliners’ Reportedly Envisaged Endgame In Ukraine
Assessing Russian Hardliners’ Reportedly Envisaged Endgame In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko While there might indeed be some Russian hardliners who think that peace talks should just be a ruse for buying time to make more military gains, such attitudes don’t reflect… Read More ›
Will Putin Agree To A Ceasefire?
Will Putin Agree To A Ceasefire? By Andrew Korybko There are five compelling arguments for either scenario. Ukraine just agreed to a month-long ceasefire after talks with the US in Jeddah, but it’s conditional on Russia agreeing to the same, which remains uncertain…. Read More ›
Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged “New Détente”
Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged “New Détente” By Andrew Korybko Trump 2.0 must become aware of the threat that the UK poses to its plans and respond accordingly to defend the US’ interests. Russia’s Foreign… Read More ›
Macron’s Proposed Nuclear Umbrella For Europe: Much Ado About Nothing
Macron’s Proposed Nuclear Umbrella For Europe: Much Ado About Nothing By Uriel Araujo Macron is offering Europe something he does not have, to counter a threat that does not really exist the way he describes it. France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced last week… Read More ›
Sikorski Deserved To Be Put In His Place By Musk And Rubio
Sikorski Deserved To Be Put In His Place By Musk And Rubio By Andrew Korybko Sikorski arguably sought to provoke a fake scandal with the unfriendly aim of further worsening the US’ already tense ties with the EU and NATO in… Read More ›
Analysing Trump’s Latest Sanctions Threat Against Russia
Analysing Trump’s Latest Sanctions Threat Against Russia By Andrew Korybko The problem appears to be that there isn’t yet enough trust between Russia and the US to fully overcome their security dilemma in spite of the impressive progress that’s been made… Read More ›
Ukraine Already Kinda Has Article 5 Guarantees From Some NATO Countries
Ukraine Already Kinda Has Article 5 Guarantees From Some NATO Countries By Andrew Korybko Considering that Article 5 always left the option of armed force up to each individual member, which remains the case with each of the bilateral “security guarantees”… Read More ›
The “ReArm Europe Plan” Will Probably Fall Far Short Of The Bloc’s Lofty Expectations
The “ReArm Europe Plan” Will Probably Fall Far Short Of The Bloc’s Lofty Expectations By Andrew Korybko The estimated €800 billion in defence spending that’s supposed to follow in the next four years might sound impressive, but it becomes much less… Read More ›
A Russian-US “New Détente” Would Revolutionize International Relations
A Russian-US “New Détente” Would Revolutionize International Relations By Andrew Korybko Here’s the full interview that I gave to Newsweek’s Tom O’Connor, excerpts of which were included in his article about “What A Trump-Putin Détente Means for Russia and Iran’s Partnership”…. Read More ›