Lavrov Exposed The US’ Double Standards Towards Resolving The Levantine And Ukrainian Conflicts By Andrew Korybko He wasn’t just aiming to score soft power points but to hint at creative ways in which recent US-endorsed Levantine solutions could be applied to… Read More ›
What’s Really Behind The Latest Border Tensions Between Belarus And Lithuania? By Andrew Korybko It’s possible that this is a “plausibly deniable” powerplay by Belarus as part of the “big deal” that it’s negotiating with the US. Lithuania closed its border… Read More ›
France’s Plans To Deploy Troops To Ukraine Risk Sparking A Major Crisis By Andrew Korybko Putin must decide whether to reach a deal with Trump over this for escalation-management purposes or climb the escalation ladder by authorizing strikes against those troops… Read More ›
How Likely Is It That Poland Gives Belarus A Fair Deal Instead Of A Lopsided One? By Andrew Korybko Belarus’ KGB chief recently claimed to have “reached an understanding of mutual interests” with Poland “in some cases” to the surprise of… Read More ›
What’s The Real Reason Why The Economist Wants Europe To Spend $400 Billion More On Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko Federalizing the EU, not the political fantasy of defeating Russia, is the real goal, which requires another four years of proxy warfare… Read More ›
The Polish Origins Of Russia’s National Unity Day Are Still Relevant By Andrew Korybko Russia nowadays believes that Poland has been the most consistent threat to its national unity. Russia marks National Unity Day every 4 November in remembrance of the… Read More ›
The West Is Posing New Challenges To Russia Along Its Entire Southern Periphery By Andrew Korybko The question arises of why Russia’s regional partners are going along with this in the first place. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned last week that “NATO… Read More ›
From Kupyansk To Pokrovsk: Five Strategic Implications Of Ukraine’s Encirclement By Andrew Korybko Putin is once again extending an olive branch to Zelensky and Trump in his latest goodwill gesture because he truly doesn’t want the conflict to drag on nor… Read More ›
$6 Billion Icebreaker Deal: U.S.-Finland Alliance Signals Strategic Arctic Encirclement By Uriel Araujo America signals it’s in the Arctic race to stay. The question is: in heating up tensions in the High North, does the West secure interests or court conflict… Read More ›
NATO’s Three-Pronged Response To The Latest Russian Scare Raises The Risk Of A Larger War By Andrew Korybko This could be averted if Poland, which commands NATO’s third-largest army and whose new president recently didn’t rule out talking to Putin if… Read More ›
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