The Global Consequences Of South Asia’s Grand Strategic Reorientation By Andrew Korybko While it remains to be seen whether Pakistan will grotesquely transform from the “Zipper of Eurasia” into the “Faultline of Eurasia” like is feared, that scenario is still credible… Read More ›
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Reading Between The Lines Of SVR’s Official Response To ISIS-K’s Kabul Embassy Attack
Reading Between The Lines Of SVR’s Official Response To ISIS-K’s Kabul Embassy Attack By Andrew Korybko In quick succession, a spree of three events occurred in the past six weeks that very likely contributed to Russia re-evaluating its prior assessment of… Read More ›
Was Western Intel Behind ISIS-K’s Terrorist Attack Against The Russian Embassy In Kabul?
Was Western Intel Behind ISIS-K’s Terrorist Attack Against The Russian Embassy In Kabul? By Andrew Korybko The Anglo-American Axis’ strategic interests are to punish Russia for its leading role in the Taliban’s geo-economic balancing act; prompt Moscow to either double down… Read More ›
America Will Never Impede The Military Dimension Of The Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership
America Will Never Impede The Military Dimension Of The Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership By Andrew Korybko The US is no longer able to impose its will onto others like it did during the climax of the brief unipolar moment immediately after the… Read More ›
Biden Spit On The Soul Of The American Nation By Pitting His People Against One Another
Biden Spit On The Soul Of The American Nation By Pitting His People Against One Another By Andrew Korybko Maliciously smearing approximately half of the country as existential terrorist-inclined threats to “the soul of the nation” is nothing but the crudest… Read More ›
The White House Press Secretary’s Hateful Definition Of Extremism Is Counterproductive
The White House Press Secretary’s Hateful Definition Of Extremism Is Counterproductive By Andrew Korybko To put it more generally, she condemned all minority views in a society as extremist, which can easily backfire at home and abroad. White House Press Secretary… Read More ›
Suspected Pakistani Arms Sales To Kiev Don’t Automatically Imply Proxy War Intentions
Suspected Pakistani Arms Sales To Kiev Don’t Automatically Imply Proxy War Intentions By Andrew Korybko Casual observers of bilateral ties or even just International Relations more broadly might be misled into automatically believing that these reports imply that Pakistan’s US-backed post-modern… Read More ›
Pakistan’s Response To Taliban’s Claim Isn’t Convincing
Pakistan’s Response To The Taliban’s Claim That It’s A US Military Proxy Isn’t Convincing By Andrew Korybko It’s not surprising that they denied the Taliban Defence Minister’s claim, as is their right to do whether they’re telling the truth or not,… Read More ›
A Dangerous Security Dilemma Is Rapidly Developing In Pakistan-Taliban Relations
A Dangerous Security Dilemma Is Rapidly Developing In Pakistan-Taliban Relations By Andrew Korybko While the Pakistani-Taliban security dilemma owes its origins to “innocent” misperceptions of the other that were previously manageable since neither suspected that any adversarial third party was meddling… Read More ›
The Taliban Defence Minister Just Called Pakistan Out For Being An American Military Proxy
The Taliban Defence Minister Just Called Pakistan Out For Being An American Military Proxy By Andrew Korybko It’s objectively the case that Pakistan’s prior alliance with America against the Afghan Taliban ended up fueling the TTP and other terrorist groups’ war… Read More ›