Analysing Ukraine’s Attempted Drone Strike On TurkStream’s Russian Infrastructure By Andrew Korybko Here are five observations about Kiev’s latest provocation in terms of the bigger picture. Russia accused Ukraine of attempting a drone strike against one of TurkStream’s gas compressor stations, which… Read More ›
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Three Arguments Tearing Apart Robert Kagan’s Claims About Trump, Ukraine, And Putin
Three Arguments Tearing Apart Robert Kagan’s Claims About Trump, Ukraine, And Putin By Andrew Korybko The exact opposite of what Kagan posited is true: Russia can’t militarily control Ukraine indefinitely; a Russian-American brinksmanship scenario is terrifyingly realistic; and Putin is indeed… Read More ›
Serbia’s Top General Hinted At Carrying Out A Pro-Western Military Pivot Under Sanctions Duress
Serbia’s Top General Hinted At Carrying Out A Pro-Western Military Pivot Under Sanctions Duress By Andrew Korybko This could easily lead to a more profound pivot that undoes decades of strategic ties with Russia in just a few years. Chief of… Read More ›
Zelensky Accuses The West Of Embezzling $88.5 Billion Sent To Ukraine
Zelensky Accuses The West Of Embezzling $88.5 Billion Sent To Ukraine By Uriel Araujo If Zelensky is trying to send a message for leverage, maybe out of desperation, it is easy to see how this could backfire quite badly for him…. Read More ›
Lithuania’s Provocative Remark About Kaliningrad Doesn’t Equate To A Territorial Claim
Lithuania’s Provocative Remark About Kaliningrad Doesn’t Equate To A Territorial Claim By Andrew Korybko Referring to places by the names that a certain group once used doesn’t automatically imply territorial claims, though it can be interpreted as such depending on the… Read More ›
Why’s The Russian-Taliban Bounty Scandal From Summer 2020 Suddenly Back In The News?
Why’s The Russian-Taliban Bounty Scandal From Summer 2020 Suddenly Back In The News? By Andrew Korybko The Insider, which is designated as a foreign agent in Russia, wants to complicate Trump’s peace talks with Russia, improve US ties with Pakistan at… Read More ›
The EU’s Need For Cheap Ukrainian Labour Imperils Ukraine’s Post-War Reconstruction
The EU’s Need For Cheap Ukrainian Labour Imperils Ukraine’s Post-War Reconstruction By Andrew Korybko Forthcoming developments might lead to Germany and/or Poland, where over two million of them collectively reside, either encouraging their return or incentivizing them to stay. Zelensky has… Read More ›
Blinken Just Unofficially Admitted That The US Worsened The NATO-Russian Security Dilemma
Blinken Just Unofficially Admitted That The US Worsened The NATO-Russian Security Dilemma By Andrew Korybko Reviewing The Russian-Ukrainian Part Of Blinken’s Latest Podcast Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken elaborated on the Biden Administration’s approach to the Ukrainian Conflict during a… Read More ›
The End Game And The New Cold War: Reviewing Lavrov’s Year-End Interview With TASS
The End Game And The New Cold War: Reviewing Lavrov’s Year-End Interview With TASS By Andrew Korybko The possible end of the Ukrainian Conflict sometime later this year and the political agreement that’ll accompany it will play the greatest roles in… Read More ›
Avoiding Neo-Colonialism: Russia’s Strategy Against A Weaponized “Green Agenda”
Avoiding Neo-Colonialism: Russia’s Strategy Against A Weaponized “Green Agenda” By Andrew Korybko It envisages helping developing countries rebalance their relations with the West while avoiding the neo-colonial pitfalls for the ‘green agenda’ that’s being weaponized as a ploy to entrap them…. Read More ›