The Baltic States Are More Important For Ukraine Than Most Might Realize By Andrew Korybko The Baltic States and Ukraine’s borders with Russia and Belarus are the most likely tripwires for a hot NATO-Russian war, which they have an interest in… Read More ›
What’s Zelensky’s Endgame For Getting Ukraine Directly Involved In The Third Gulf War? By Andrew Korybko He hopes to prove Ukraine’s worth in defending against Iranian drones so that NATO’s Eastern Flank then agrees to his earlier proposal for swapping some… Read More ›
How Likely Is It That The US Will Contain Turkiye After It’s Done With Iran? By Andrew Korybko It probably won’t since Turkiye helps advance American interests at the crossroads of Afro-Eurasia in Iran, the Middle East-North Africa, and along Russia’s… Read More ›
TRIPP Alone Should Change Russia’s Southern “Near Abroad” Strategy By Andrew Korybko He’s one of Russia’s top experts, yet his latest Valdai report on this subject didn’t even make passive mention of Trump 2.0’s flagship megaproject that’s expected to expand Western… Read More ›
The Transatlantic Tech Schism: Why The EU Is Unplugging From Silicon Valley By Uriel Araujo European policymakers are reconsidering the continent’s reliance on US technology giants. From cloud infrastructure to social media platforms, the scale of Europe’s dependence has sparked a… Read More ›
Azerbaijan’s “Multi-Vector Alignment” Poses A Serious Challenge To Russia By Andrew Korybko The “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” is poised to become a military-logistics corridor for expanding NATO influence along Russia’s southern periphery and could thus force Putin into… Read More ›
Here’s How Karabakh Became The Catalyst Of Russia’s Southern Peripheral Setbacks By Andrew Korybko The previously unresolved Karabakh Conflict might in retrospect be seen as a several-decades-delayed grand strategic game-changer that revolutionized regional geopolitics. Vance’s recent trip to the South Caucasus, which… Read More ›
Zelensky Is Wrong: Russia Didn’t Start World War III In 2022; It Was The US In 1991! By Andrew Korybko He defines World War III as a country “want[ing] to impose on the world a different way of life and change… Read More ›
How Might Russia Respond If Its ‘Technical Ally’ North Korea Came Under Attack? By Andrew Korybko Each is the other’s ally, but within lesser practical limits than Russia is to its CSTO allies or the US to its NATO ones, which… Read More ›
Telegram Has Reportedly Become A Pressing National Security Threat For Russia By Andrew Korybko The authorities believe that Ukraine has quick access to Russian servicemen’s messages and exploits this for military purposes, which wouldn’t be possible without some degree of complicity… Read More ›
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