What Could The Contours Of A NATO-Russian Non-Aggression Pact Look Like? By Andrew Korybko Awareness of the threats that NATO poses along these three fronts and the division of labour between the top five states therein – Finland, Sweden, Poland, Romania,… Read More ›
US Troop Cuts in Europe Won’t Alleviate Russia’s Security Concerns By Andrew Korybko The US is offloading most of the responsibilities for containing Russia onto Poland, the UK, France, and Germany while retaining a minimal presence along NATO’s eastern flank for… Read More ›
Ukraine Is At The Centre Of Three Interlocking Triangles For Containing Russia By Andrew Korybko These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Romanian-Moldovan Flank Might Soon Be Used By NATO Against Russia By Andrew Korybko It can invade Transnistria, occupy neighbouring Odessa, and threaten nearby Crimea from there. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in mid-July that “NATO Is Turning Moldova Into… Read More ›
What Comes Next After The (Allegedly Fraudulent) Liberal-Globalist Victory In Romania? By Andrew Korybko The battle was lost but the political war isn’t over. The struggle between liberal-globalists and populist-nationalists in Romania ended in the former’s favour after Sunday’s presidential run-off election,… Read More ›
France’s 3D Mapping Of Romania’s “Focsani Gate” Might Not Really Be For Defensive Purposes By Andrew Korybko The attention that France is paying to tactical details like the local terrain near the Romanian-Moldovan-Ukrainian trijunction suggests that its talk about an intervention… Read More ›
Romania Is At The Centre Of The Struggle Between Liberal-Globalists And Populist-Nationalists By Andrew Korybko What’s unfolding in this Balkan country is nothing less than the opening of another New Cold War front, albeit this time an ideological one which also… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Western Borders Are Unlikely To Change After The Conflict Ends By Andrew Korybko Two recent developments revived speculation about this long-running political fantasy coming true. Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergey Naryshkin’s proposal to organize a conference of historians from his… Read More ›
Romania’s Constitutional Coup Is Meant To Buy More Time For NATO In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Western democracy is just a process for legitimizing elite interests, and these same elites sometimes repeat the process until they get their desired result. It… Read More ›
Romania’s Draft Law On Dispatching Troops To Protect Its Compatriots Abroad Is Aimed At Moldova By Andrew Korybko There’s been talk since Moldova’s independence of merging with Romania on the basis of their shared ethno-linguistic heritage and to return to the… Read More ›
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