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 ›
Trump’s Nuclear Test Plans Might Be Meant To Manipulate Russia Into An Escalation With Europe By Andrew Korybko Any reciprocal nuclear test by Russia could serve as the pretext for the US approving France and/or the UK sharing their nukes with… Read More ›
Russia’s Burevestnik Missile Test Was Actually A De-Escalation Measure By Andrew Korybko Its real purpose is to get the US to reconsider its impending escalations against Russia by reminding it of the strategic costs that this could entail. Trump slammed Russia’s test of… Read More ›
The Stage Is Set For A US-Instigated Security Dilemma Between The Eurasian Rimland And Heartland By Andrew Korybko US-backed NATO, Pakistan, and the “Asian/Containment Crescent” of Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines are poised to respectively face off against Russia, India, and… Read More ›
Kiev Wants The Land, Not The People: Former US Adviser Exposes Ukraine’s Ethnopolitical Blind Spot By Uriel Araujo Former US State Department adviser James Carden highlights how Ukraine seeks control of Donbass territory while marginalizing its ethnic Russian population. Kiev’s post-2014… Read More ›
Putin’s Offer To Extend The New START Is A Goodwill Gesture To Trump By Andrew Korybko Goodwill gestures are meant to make the recipient trust whoever does them with the expectation that they’ll then be reciprocated for improving their relations. Putin offered in… Read More ›
The US Plans To Wage An Intensified Proxy War Of Attrition Against Russia By Andrew Korybko Each part of what’s arguably Trump’s new three-phase strategy against Russia has its drawbacks. Trump’s latest escalation against Russia took the form of imposing severe sanctions… Read More ›
The US Is Weaponizing Energy Geopolitics In A Bid To Break Apart BRICS By Andrew Korybko It might succeed in terms of optics, but this won’t make any substantive difference in reality. The US’ latest sanctions against Russia, the first under the second… Read More ›
The Russian-Ethiopian Strategic Partnership Pioneers A New Model Of Multipolar Cooperation By Andrew Korybko These civilization-states are regional leaders with complementary worldviews. Russia and Ethiopia expanded 2017’s bilateral agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy by signing a roadmap in late September during… Read More ›
“Osama Bin Sikorski’s” Incitement To Terrorism Risks Backfiring On Poland By Andrew Korybko Ukrainian ultra-nationalists could exploit his pretext of a “just, defensive war” to falsely legitimize a terrorist campaign in south-eastern Poland, whose land they regard as their own and… Read More ›
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