A New Great Game In Eurasia? Rubio Faces A Geopolitical Reality Check By Uriel Araujo Washington is seeking influence over Eurasia’s strategic trade corridors, from Central Asia to Turkey and Greece. Rubio’s visit exposes both the ambitions and contradictions of Trump’s… Read More ›
Greece Is “Indispensable”, But Washington Can’t Afford To Alienate Turkey By Uriel Araujo Washington expands defence cooperation with Athens. The closer relationship could alienate Turkey and intensify tensions on NATO’s south-eastern flank – in an increasingly divided Alliance. US Secretary of… Read More ›
The EU’s Middle Corridor Plans Could Tighten The West’s Strategic Encirclement Of Russia By Andrew Korybko Even if there’s ever a Russian-US rapprochement, Russia would still have to confront creeping European-Turkish military-strategic influence along its entire southern periphery, thus perpetuating New… Read More ›
Armenia’s Western Pivot: Strategic Autonomy Or A New Security Dependency? By Uriel Araujo Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is freezing CSTO ties, questioning the Russian base in Gyumri, and racing toward the EU, while warming to Azerbaijan and Turkey. The question… Read More ›
Turkey’s Eurasian Pivot: Balancing NATO, Russia And China By Uriel Araujo Ankara is deepening nuclear ties with Russia, and considering full SCO membership – while remaining a NATO member. Erdogan’s multi-alignment strategy also includes an expanding Turkic agenda. The result is… Read More ›
Peskov Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised By Tusk’s Defence Of The Nord Stream Sabotage By Andrew Korybko Simply put, it’s par for the course for European leaders to support all actions – including terrorism – aimed against Russia, and especially so in… Read More ›
The “Kurdish Question” Isn’t Over: How US Policy Turned an Old Conflict Into a Regional Fault Line By Uriel Araujo Turkey’s rapprochement with the PKK is changing the strategic landscape surrounding the Kurdish Question. As Kurdish forces remain active in Syria… Read More ›
The US-Approved Turkish-Ukrainian Arms Deal Shouldn’t Have Come As A Surprise To Russia By Andrew Korybko While it pragmatically retains economic and energy ties with Russia, Turkiye is still one of Russia’s oldest rivals, which Russian diplomats and experts alike would… Read More ›
“Islamic NATO” Emerges As Saudi Arabia, Turkey And Pakistan Forge A New Security Axis By Uriel Araujo The Mecca agreement creates a new trilateral security framework amid the war involving Iran and growing regional instability. Its members span NATO, the Gulf… Read More ›
There’d Likely Be Another Civil War Before Ukraine Meaningfully Turns Away From The West By Andrew Korybko For as much as the Telegraph fears this scenario and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service hopes that it’ll happen, it’s unrealistic to expect that the… Read More ›