Russia’s Mutual Defence Pact With North Korea Is A Geopolitical Game-Changer By Andrew Korybko It raises the stakes in the US’ dangerous game of nuclear chicken with Russia in Ukraine, accelerates the US’ “Pivot (back) to Asia”, and could thus trap… Read More ›
Debunking Politico’s Claim About The Reason Why Armenia Wants To Ditch The CSTO By Andrew Korybko Belarus’ speculative military cooperation with Azerbaijan was much less than Russia’s provably documented arms sales to that country so there’s no way that the recent… Read More ›
Poland Was Just As Much To Blame As Britain For Sabotaging Spring 2022’s Peace Talks By Andrew Korybko The risk of World War III breaking out is now higher than it’s ever been since the Cuban Missile Crisis due to the… Read More ›
The US’ Sharp Rebuke Of Vietnam For Hosting Putin Later This Week Was Ridiculous By Andrew Korybko Vietnam will still keep the US close since it considers it to be the only realistic counterweight to China in the latter’s namesake Southern… Read More ›
The Swiss Talks On Ukraine Weren’t As Bad As Some In Russia Expected By Andrew Korybko In hindsight, Russia’s hyperbolic rhetoric preceding these talks was arguably misdirected, and it would have been better for those officials such as Medvedev to trust… Read More ›
Armenia Will Expose Itself To Serious Risks If It Goes Through With Leaving The CSTO By Andrew Korybko Azerbaijan and/or Turkiye might decide to forcibly “demilitarize” Armenia once Russia no longer has any CSTO mutual defence commitments to it in order… Read More ›
Polish President’s Call For “Decolonizing” Russia Proved That Putin Was Right To Warn About This Plot By Andrew Korybko The Polish leader also inadvertently dealt a blow to his side’s credibility since its propagandists can no longer gaslight that the West… Read More ›
What’s Really Behind Putin’s Generous Ceasefire Proposal? By Andrew Korybko President Putin knew that they’d reject the terms of his ceasefire proposal but he still publicly shared them in order to place the responsibility for this summer’s predictable escalation on their… Read More ›
The US’ Security Pact With Ukraine Is A Consolation For Not Approving Its NATO Membership By Andrew Korybko Neither the US nor Russia wants Ukraine in NATO, each for different reasons, yet the US wants to continue militarizing Ukraine so that… Read More ›
Russia Still Opposes The Swiss Talks On Ukraine Despite Their Reportedly Scaled-Back Agenda By Andrew Korybko From Russia’s perspective, the success of any Chinese-facilitated talks on Ukraine ahead of and at November’s G20 Summit in Rio is dependent on the Swiss… Read More ›
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