Poland Wants To Provoke Russia Into Being The First To Formally Cut Off Bilateral Relations By Andrew Korybko The purpose behind provoking Russia into this is threefold: 1) PiS hopes to manipulate and subsequently exploit optics of this scandal in order… Read More ›
China And India Remain At An Impasse Over Their Border Dispute By Andrew Korybko China wants to freeze this problem and decouple it from the rest of its bilateral relations with India, while India insists that the status quo ante Galwan… Read More ›
Russia Is Right: “Political Engineering” From Abroad Is Responsible For Crisis In Sudan By Andrew Korybko The present piece elaborates more on why Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Yevstigneyeva is right, which is important to understand since such… Read More ›
Fake News Alert: There’s No Credible Chance Of Pakistan Joining BRICS Anytime Soon By Andrew Korybko Express Tribune’s false description of BRICS as a “Russian-led political bloc” and reference to Pakistan’s recent purchase of oil from Moscow strongly suggest that this… Read More ›
Russia Needs To Once Again Brace Itself For A Prolonged Rivalry With Germany By Andrew Korybko The sooner that Russia’s expert community abandons their wishful thinking hopes for a rapprochement with Germany, the sooner that the Kremlin can promulgate the appropriate… Read More ›
South Africa’s Neutrality In The New Cold War Is Under Threat From Western Pressure By Andrew Korybko The larger context in which South Africa just flipflopped on its “International Criminal Court” commitments is of outsized importance not just for BRICS’ future,… Read More ›
Germany’s New Anti-Russian Role Is Partially Due To Its Regional Competition With Poland By Andrew Korybko Ideological motivations and shadowy US influence networks only go so far in accounting for Germany’s pivot from Russia’s top partner in Europe to one of… Read More ›
US Propaganda Is Responsible For Unrealistically High Hopes About Ukraine’s Counteroffensive By Andrew Korybko The takeaway from Politico’s latest article is that the Biden Administration is still struggling to correct the public’s expectations after Milley first tried doing so a quarter-year… Read More ›
China’s Ambassador To France Taught The West A Lesson About The “Rules-Based Order” By Andrew Korybko Ambassador Lu was arguably tasked with sending the West a message on a “plausibly deniable” basis about how the “rules-based order” concept feels whenever it’s… Read More ›
A Senior Pentagon Official Strongly Implied Impending “Mission Creep” In Sudan By Andrew Korybko Now that its “VIPs” are out of harm’s way, the US can up the ante in Sudan on a “humanitarian” pretext as part of its latest anti-Russian… Read More ›
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