Can Putin Legally Stop The Conflict Without First Controlling All The Disputed Territory? By Andrew Korybko The Constitutional Court would likely have to rule on this hypothetical scenario due to 2020’s constitutional amendment prohibiting the cession of Russian territory except in… Read More ›
US Pressure Might Inadvertently Bring India And China Back Together By Andrew Korybko Any meaningful improvement of Sino-Indo ties, especially in the economic dimension, could prompt Trump to either walk back his hardline policy on India to court it away from… Read More ›
Poland’s New President Is Picking Fights With His Prime Minister, The EU, And Russia By Andrew Korybko This is true to his character as an amateur boxer. Poland’s new president Karol Nawrocki came out swinging against Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the… Read More ›
Trump Putin Summit: What’s Standing In The Way Of A Grand Compromise On Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko The onus is now on Zelensky to reciprocate Putin’s widely perceived willingness to compromise for peace. Putin and Trump publicly confirmed that they found… Read More ›
Indonesia Will Play A Key Role In Russia’s Asian Balancing Act By Andrew Korybko Their close Soviet-era strategic cooperation before General Suharto’s mid-1960s coup serves as a nostalgic reference point for the level of relations that their contemporary leaders are eager… Read More ›
The FSB Thwarted One Of Ukraine’s Most Dangerous Escalation Plots Against Russia By Andrew Korybko They might have saved the peace process and therefore literally changed the world. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Thursday that it thwarted Ukraine’s long-range Sapsan… Read More ›
Russian-Azerbaijani Tensions Are Quickly Heating Up Over Ukraine By Andrew Korybko None of this would be happening if the US didn’t squeeze Russia out of the Zangezur Corridor with Armenia’s and Azerbaijan’s assistance. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received a call from Zelensky on… Read More ›
India Defied US Pressure To Dump Russia For These Five Reasons By Andrew Korybko The common denominator is India’s rivalry with China. Trump recently made a show of doubling his 25% tariffs on India as punishment for its continued purchase of… 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 ›
Some Lithuanians Are Turning Against The Pro-Western Belarusian Diaspora By Andrew Korybko Lithuanians don’t want to share the legacy of their eponymous Grand Duchy with Belarusians. Several dozen Lithuanians recently protested in Vilnius demanding that the government revoke the accreditation and funding that… Read More ›
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