Russia’s Tactical Nuclear Weapons Exercises Are Meant To Deter A NATO Intervention In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Everything is moving so fast that nobody can say with confidence exactly what will or won’t happen, but a reminder of each side’s interests… Read More ›
Is Zelensky’s Life In Danger Now That He’s On Russia’s Wanted List? By Andrew Korybko The impending end of Zelensky’s term on 21 May sets the backdrop against which to analyse this development. There’s been a lot of speculation about why… Read More ›
Medvedev Has A Point About How Next Month’s Swiss “Peace Talks” Could Backfire On Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Nobody seriously believes that they’ll convince Russia to withdraw from the territory that Kiev claims as its own, nor that they’ll reshape the… Read More ›
The Mutual Interests Of Zelensky And The Bidens Are Perpetuating Ukraine War By Uriel Araujo Taking all that into consideration, it is not far-fetched at all to describe the current aid Washington sends to Kiev as being in part a… Read More ›
Polish FM’s Rebuke Of Polish President’s US Nuke Talk Is Driven By Domestic Politics By Andrew Korybko Seeing as how there’s no legitimate basis for Sikorski to be angry at Duda, the only credible explanation is that it’s all about domestic… Read More ›
Poland’s Implied Plans To Deport Draft-Eligible Ukrainian Men Could Push It Into A Recession By Andrew Korybko Poland’s Ukrainian labour loss will be Germany’s gain, which represents another way in which the former has become indispensable to fuelling the latter’s superpower… Read More ›
NATO Soldiers Are Already In Ukraine By Uriel Araujo The West can play with words, in a Schrödinger’s cat manner (“advisors, not combatants” and “European troops, not NATO troops”) as much as it wants. In any case, NATO’s Article 5,… Read More ›
Ukraine’s Top Five Challenges Are Unsolvable By Andrew Korybko Ukraine’s problems are immense and multifaceted, but they’re all connected one way or another to the five following factors. It’s beginning to dawn on most Westerners that the US’ long-delayed aid to Ukraine isn’t… Read More ›
Polish FM Went Overboard With His Reaffirmation Of Ukraine’s Western Borders By Andrew Korybko His decision to use the Ukrainian name of an historically Polish-controlled region implies that it was illegally occupied by the Poles for centuries with all that entails…. Read More ›
US Should Send European Troops, Not NATO, To Ukraine, Say Some Within US Establishment By Uriel Araujo In a Schrödinger’s cat kind of reasoning, Crowther, Matisek, and O’Brien argue in the aforementioned piece that in the scenario they propose, “European forces would… Read More ›
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