America Must Stop Punishing Average Russians If It’s To Regain Its Soft Power By Andrew Korybko The US Embassy in Russia’s announcement that it’ll stop issuing non-immigrant visas to the host country’s citizens in response to Moscow prohibiting its employment of… Read More ›
Osama bin Laden’s Killing – Pakistan’s Achilles’ Heel? By Fidato The killing of Osama bin Laden has been made the Pakistani Achilles’ heel despite of the fact that it was the effective intelligence sharing of ISI with CIA which led… Read More ›
Iran’s Deep State Power Struggle Just Exploded Into The Open By Andrew Korybko The struggle between the reformist/”moderate” and principalist/”conservative” factions of Iran’s permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) just exploded into the open after recordings of an oral… Read More ›
The Russian-Taliban Bounty Conspiracy Theory: Postmortem By Andrew Korybko The recent revelation that the US Intelligence Community only ever had ‘low to moderate confidence’ in last summer’s sensational claims that Russia was paying bounties to the Taliban for every American soldier… Read More ›
Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Isn’t A Blow To China By Andrew Korybko It was hyperbole for Ghosh to claim that ‘Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Is A Blow To China’. It might only be so in the worst-case scenario, which is far from certain…. Read More ›
The US-Russian Sanctions War: Symbolic, Substantive, Or Strategic? By Andrew Korybko The recently intensified “sanctions war” between the US and Russia has made many observers wonder whether this escalation is symbolic, substantive, or strategic. The US’ imposition last week of its… Read More ›
Here’s A List Of The US’ Top Failures In Afghanistan By Andrew Korybko The US’ War on Afghanistan spectacularly failed to accomplish anything positive of significance. US President Biden’s announcement that his country will initiate its full withdrawal from Afghanistan on 1 May… Read More ›
Kashmir Crisis: A challenge to world conscience By Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain, and a man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked, “When… Read More ›
What’s Everything That Biden And Putin Have To Discuss? By Andrew Korybko The American and Russian Presidents have a slew of issues to discuss in the event that they meet in person sometime in the coming future like Biden proposed doing… Read More ›
Why Does Ukraine Want War? By Andrew Korybko Ukraine wants war with Russia due to a combination of domestic and international factors, but such a scenario would be disastrous for the Eastern European country and only serve the interests of some… Read More ›
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