Analysing The Kremlin Spokesman’s Unprecedented Description Of The Ukrainian Conflict As A War By Andrew Korybko This should be seen as the Kremlin’s clearest signal yet that it’ll respond to the scenario of a conventional Western intervention by striking those opposing… Read More ›
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The EU’s Approach Towards Ukrainian And Russian Agricultural Imports Harms Polish Farmers
The EU’s Approach Towards Ukrainian And Russian Agricultural Imports Harms Polish Farmers By Andrew Korybko It’s very likely that their protests will keep growing and could continue morphing into a new Solidarity movement that poses a serious challenge to the government…. Read More ›
The Czecho-Slovak Split Over Ukraine Symbolizes The Spread Of New Cold War Divisions
The Czecho-Slovak Split Over Ukraine Symbolizes The Spread Of New Cold War Divisions By Andrew Korybko What’s so symbolic about this dynamic is that Czechs and Slovaks are fraternal people, yet they’re embracing diametrically opposite views on the New Cold War…. Read More ›
France Will Likely Seek To Secure Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast If It Conventionally Intervenes
France Will Likely Seek To Secure Ukraine’s Black Sea Coast If It Conventionally Intervenes By Andrew Korybko Romania and Moldova, where France already has troops and just signed a security pact that might soon lead to the same, could easily serve… Read More ›
The Substance Of The Swiss Peace Talks Depends On Whether Russia Achieves A Breakthrough
The Substance Of The Swiss Peace Talks Depends On Whether Russia Achieves A Breakthrough By Andrew Korybko If the conventional intervention scenario unfolds before this summer’s talks and no nuclear apocalypse follows, then the substance will certainly shift from entertaining Zelensky’s… Read More ›
The US Is Testing China’s Patience By Deploying Special Forces Just Six Miles From The Mainland
The US Is Testing China’s Patience By Deploying Special Forces Just Six Miles From The Mainland By Andrew Korybko They’re functioning as tripwires for curtailing China’s freedom of military action in any forthcoming cross-strait crisis and directly involving the US if… Read More ›
Putin’s Talk Of Setting Up A “Security Zone” In Ukraine Hints At A Potential Compromise
Putin’s Talk Of Setting Up A “Security Zone” In Ukraine Hints At A Potential Compromise By Andrew Korybko If the military-strategic dynamics remain on track and the West is still led by “rational” leaders with an interest in preventing a nuclear… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Latest Raid Against Russia’s Belgorod Region Is Driven By Purely Political Motives
Ukraine’s Latest Raid Against Russia’s Belgorod Region Is Driven By Purely Political Motives By Andrew Korybko It represents a so-called “middle ground” between the scenarios of extreme escalation and extreme de-escalation that are nowadays being discussed. The Russian Ministry of Defence… Read More ›
Ukraine’s “Journalist” Provocations Set The Basis For Its Latest Anti-Polish Infowar Campaign
Ukraine’s “Journalist” Provocations Set The Basis For Its Latest Anti-Polish Infowar Campaign By Andrew Korybko Ukraine is trying to smear Poland’s reputation in the eyes of its Western allies by falsely framing it as a Russian-infiltrated society whose government is so… Read More ›
Ukraine Is Facing The Scenario Of Asymmetrical Partition
Ukraine Is Facing The Scenario Of Asymmetrical Partition By Andrew Korybko Asymmetrical partition between Ukraine’s western neighbours into “spheres of economic influence” alongside a de facto Korean-like partition between NATO and Russia is much more foreseeable than its western neighbours like… Read More ›