Zelensky’s Flip-Flop On Ceasefire Terms Is A Faux Concession By Andrew Korybko Ukraine will still remain a de facto member of NATO so long as its security guarantees with the bloc’s members remain in effect. Zelensky recently flip-flopped on ceasefire terms by… Read More ›
Poland’s Rotating Council Of The EU Presidency Is A Chance To Rebalance Relations With Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Tusk will likely remain a Europhile with pro-German tendencies at heart, but he might feel pressured to keep aping conservative-nationalist policies towards Ukraine… Read More ›
China Would Be Taking A Major Risk If It Deployed PMCs To Myanmar To Protect BRI Projects By Andrew Korybko The US could do to China in Myanmar what it’s currently doing to Russia in Ukraine. The latest phase of Myanmar’s… Read More ›
Endemic Corruption Sabotaging Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure By Uriel Araujo The topic of corruption in Ukraine is once again surfacing. According to a The Times story written by their Kyiv’s correspondent Maxim Tucker, the country has “failed to build bunkers for electricity substations that… Read More ›
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Warned About A 100k-Strong NATO Intervention In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko NATO might be willing to test Putin’s patience by crossing yet another of Russia’s perceived red lines in spite of its updated nuclear doctrine and new… Read More ›
The Report About Russia’s Alleged Recruitment Of Houthi Mercenaries Is Misleading By Andrew Korybko It’s dishonest to conflate alleged victims of human trafficking rings with the Russian state’s recruitment of foreign fighters. The Financial Times (FT) published a report over the… Read More ›
Why Might The US Let An American Investor Purchase The Bankrupt Nord Stream Project? By Andrew Korybko Observers should keep an eye on this since it’s a low-probability but high-impact scenario. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that “A Miami… Read More ›
Interpreting Interfax-Ukraine’s Report About Russia’s Alleged Plans To Trifurcate Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Ukraine’s Intelligence Community was either duped by an obvious fake that they fell for due to the panic and paranoia that’s taking hold of them after Trump’s historic… Read More ›
Russia-NATO Proxy War: Putin Is Finally Climbing The Escalation Ladder By Andrew Korybko He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting, such as destabilizing and then invading Belarus, with the intent of coercing him… Read More ›
Russia’s Updated Nuke Doctrine Aims To Deter Unacceptable Provocations From NATO By Andrew Korybko The main point that’s being conveyed through these updated terms is that Russia will not allow Ukraine to be used as NATO’s proxy for inflicting the bloc’s… Read More ›
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