The New Russian Ambassador To Pakistan Said All The Right Things In His Interview With TASS By Andrew Korybko Left unsaid is that neither his nor his Pakistani counterpart’s personal will to comprehensively expand relations is sufficient to make this happen… Read More ›
Don’t Read Too Deeply Into A Russian Parliamentarian’s Proposal To Base Nukes In Latin America By Andrew Korybko The Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee’s proposal is expected to be more of a benefit to Russian soft power than a liability… Read More ›
Nigeria Is To Blame For The Sahelian Confederation’s Withdrawal From ECOWAS By Andrew Korybko In hindsight, it was inevitable that the charade of Nigeria’s regional leadership would end, but nobody could have predicted the dramatic way in which it happened. The planned… Read More ›
Putin Envisages Building A New Veteran-Led Russian Elite By Andrew Korybko The Russian leader knows the “new guard” of veterans haven’t been tainted by a life’s worth of Western-leaning sympathies unlike most of the “old guard” political and economic elite, whose… Read More ›
Russia’s Burkinabe Deployment Is A Pretty Big Deal By Andrew Korybko Slowly but surely, a new Russian-backed pole of influence is emerging in Africa, which could eventually attract the participation of neighbouring multipolar countries like similarly military-led Guinea. The first contingent… Read More ›
The IL-76 Shootdown By A US Patriot Missile Could Lead To Zaluzhny’s Replacement With Budanov By Andrew Korybko All things considered, blaming Zaluzhny – perhaps by claiming that he should have verified alleged intelligence about the IL-76’s cargo before shooting it… Read More ›
The Polish-Ukrainian Rapprochement Serves Germany’s Hegemonic Interests In Europe By Andrew Korybko Last fall’s Polish parliamentary elections might be seen in hindsight as a geopolitical game-changer due to them removing the only obstacle that stood in the path to Germany’s US-backed… Read More ›
Kiev’s Implied Territorial Claims To Russia’s Border Regions Are Totally Bogus By Andrew Korybko It’s actually Russians that have always lived in modern-day Ukraine’s border regions, not Ukrainians that have always lived in Russia’s like Zelensky implied. Zelensky signed a decree on Monday… Read More ›
France Is Reeling From The Powerful Blow That Russia Just Dealt To Its Prestige In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Turning a blind eye to its citizens’ mercenary activity in Ukraine backfired by leading to a major loss of prestige instead of… Read More ›
Why Did SVR Publish Its Prediction About An Impending Bureaucratic Reshuffle In Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko Russia’s foreign spy agency wanted to throw Zelensky into a dilemma by publishing this prediction instead of keeping it classified since it’ll either discredit or… Read More ›
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