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 ›
Why Is NATO Installing Permanent Envoy To Ukraine, While Not Letting It Join The Club? By Uriel Araujo The West’s plan for Ukraine seems to be something like: “not NATO – but kind of NATO”. I wrote before on how… Read More ›
India’s Tacit Reopening Of The “Tibet Question” Would Entail Far-Reaching Consequences By Andrew Korybko Multipolar processes would continue, but their trajectory would radically change, and Indo-Sino tensions would become a globally significant factor in the New Cold War. India’s News 18… Read More ›
Russia Should Think Twice About Inviting Afghan Farmhands To Chechnya And Tatarstan By Andrew Korybko It’s unclear why Russia is exploring the import of migrants from much more fundamentalist and dangerous Afghanistan who struggle to assimilate and integrate while scrutinizing migrants… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III By Andrew Korybko It can’t be ruled out that Zelensky might task one of his pilots with carrying out a mission directly from NATO territory without… Read More ›
Don’t Read Too Deeply Into Russia’s Naval Visit To The Caribbean By Andrew Korybko All told, the real significance of this upcoming visit is to make American policymakers and the public uneasy, not to prepare for attacking the US or bolstering… Read More ›
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