CSTO Under Siege: How the West and Turkiye are Rewriting Eurasia’s Security Map By Uriel Araujo Turkiye and the West are exploiting Armenia’s frustrations with the CSTO to promote the concept of a “Turan Army,” aiming to bring NATO closer to… Read More ›
Can Israel And Turkiye Manage Their Escalating Rivalry In Syria? By Andrew Korybko The “deconfliction mechanism” that they’re reportedly discussing would likely be insufficient for resolving their security dilemma and might thus only delay what could be an inevitable clash. Israel… Read More ›
Turkiye’s Black Sea Power Play: Will Erdogan’s Naval Ambitions Spark Clash With Russia? By Uriel Araujo Turkiye’s growing naval presence in the Black Sea, leveraging the Montreux Convention to limit Russia’s fleet while expanding operations in strategic areas, signals Erdogan’s ambition… Read More ›
The Grain Deal’s Revival Would Bring Russia And Ukraine Closer To A Full Ceasefire By Andrew Korybko What’s most important is that Putin and Trump trust one another, their representatives have excellent working relations with each other, and these two leaders… Read More ›
Russia Should Consider Accepting Syria’s Alawites As Refugees By Andrew Korybko Russia would remove what the interim Syrian authorities consider to be a “problem” from their hands, it could more quickly settle its new regions, and their ongoing base talks would… Read More ›
Why’s Israel Reportedly Lobbying The US To Keep Russia’s Bases In Syria? By Andrew Korybko Israel knows which way the wind is blowing and will therefore do whatever is needed to ensure that its interests are safeguarded by key players in… Read More ›
Post-Assad Syria Would Do Well To Retain Their Country’s Strategic Partnership With Russia By Andrew Korybko Just because a course of action is considered to be the most rational doesn’t mean that it’ll be pursued. Syrian Defence Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra… Read More ›
Analysing Ukraine’s Attempted Drone Strike On TurkStream’s Russian Infrastructure By Andrew Korybko Here are five observations about Kiev’s latest provocation in terms of the bigger picture. Russia accused Ukraine of attempting a drone strike against one of TurkStream’s gas compressor stations, which… Read More ›
Azerbaijan Signalled That It Might Be Preparing Its Own Special Operation Against Armenia By Andrew Korybko Azerbaijan demands that Armenia demilitarize, denazify, no longer contain it on behalf of foreign (Western) powers, stop obstructing regional trade routes, and allow ethnically cleansed… Read More ›
Interpreting Putin’s Remarks On Syria, Israel, And Turkiye By Andrew Korybko His pragmatic hedging preserves Russia’s national interests and even stands a chance at advancing them in the new regional reality. Putin commented on Syria’s regime change during his annual Q&A session on Thursday. According… Read More ›
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