The Lublin Triangle: From Neo-Commonwealth Dreams To Geopolitical Drift By Andrew Korybko It’ll never fulfil its initial aim of creating a Neo-Commonwealth though. The Foreign Ministers of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine met in the eastern Polish city of Lublin in late… Read More ›
Trump’s Beef With Medvedev Just Went Nuclear By Andrew Korybko His dramatic deployment of two nuclear submarines near Russia serves three political purposes. Trump announced on Friday that the US will deploy two nuclear submarines near Russia in response to former President and… Read More ›
A Famous 19th-Century Russian Painter Is At The Centre Of The Latest Tensions With Azerbaijan By Andrew Korybko The scandal over Azerbaijan’s demolition of a monument to Ivan Aivazovsky in the former “Nagorno-Karabakh” region dramatically escalated after Baku threatened to shutter… Read More ›
What’s The Most Realistic Scenario In Which The West Might Replace Zelensky? By Andrew Korybko They might wait until after Russia agrees to a ceasefire (if it ever does) since replacing him with Zaluzhny while hostilities still rage could further weaken… Read More ›
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated By Andrew Korybko Polar opposite understandings of the Sino-Indo prisoner’s dilemma lie at the core of their calculations. Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin… Read More ›
Why Did Ghana Of All Countries Agree To Partially Finance Ukraine’s Drone Program? By Andrew Korybko Footing part of this bill in exchange for Ukrainian support for securing its borders is one of the costs that Ghana must pay as part… Read More ›
What’s Thailand’s Endgame If Its Conflict With Cambodia Escalates Into War? By Andrew Korybko Demilitarization and regime change might be in the cards. The latest clashes between Cambodia and Thailand over their decades-long border dispute, which were arguably initiated by the… Read More ›
Trump’s Campaign Against Brazil Is About More Than Bolsonaro, Bilateral Trade, And BRICS By Andrew Korybko His goal is to subordinate Brazil as a vassal state so that it becomes the main “Fortress America” component of his “Global West” vision. Brazil… Read More ›
Endgame For Zelensky? Why Seymour Hersh’s Report Rings True By Uriel Araujo Growing unrest in Ukraine and shifting US attitudes may signal the end of President Zelensky’s tenure. Seymour Hersh reports that Washington could be backing General Zaluzhnyi as a successor,… Read More ›
Five Takeaways From Aliyev’s Q And A Session At The Shusha Global Media Forum By Andrew Korybko He’s still ruffling Russia’s feathers over Ukraine and the AZAL tragedy, but he restrained himself from going further, so the door might thus be… Read More ›
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