Is NATO Sidelining Turkiye? “Turkish Question” Risks Weakening Atlantic Alliance’s South-eastern Flank By Uriel Araujo Erdogan demands unconditional NATO defence trade access and bids to host the 2026 summit. Amid ever persistent tensions over Turkiye’s S-400 purchase and exclusion from F-35… Read More ›
Trump’s Disbanding Of A Secret “Deep State” Working Group Raises Hopes Of Peace With Russia By Andrew Korybko Its inter-agency members sought to sabotage the Russian-US rapprochement. Reuters reported in mid-June that the Trump Administration had recently disbanded a secret inter-agency working… Read More ›
Five Reasons Why Iran And Israel Agreed To A Ceasefire By Andrew Korybko Nobody saw it coming. Iran and Israel surprised the world by agreeing to a ceasefire precisely at the point when most observers expected their war to spiral out of control…. Read More ›
US Intervention In Iran-Israel Conflict Can Destroy Trump’s “MAGA”, And Trigger An American Recession By Uriel Araujo Escalating Iran-Israel tensions with Washington embarking on the war expected to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, spiking oil prices, and destabilizing the US dollar,… Read More ›
Does The US Want To Divide-And-Rule Belarus And Russia Or De-Escalate Continental Tensions? By Andrew Korybko Kellogg’s six-hour-long meeting with Lukashenko raises questions about the US’ intentions. Trump’s Special Envoy on Ukraine Keith Kellogg just met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk… Read More ›
Trump Let Himself Be Led By Israel Into Bombing Iran By Andrew Korybko Bibi, other members of the Israeli government, and anti-Iranian hawks within Trump’s own convinced him that a window of opportunity has opened up to knock Iran out of… Read More ›
Critiquing Trump’s Point About Russia, The G7, And Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Trump’s point is all over the place, being sensible, incomplete, and disingenuous all in one. Trump shocked his G7 peers during their latest summit when he claimed that Russia’s special operation wouldn’t have happened… Read More ›
It’s Premature To Jump To Conclusions About The Pentagon’s Review Of AUKUS By Andrew Korybko The US is unlikely to exit AUKUS, even as a goodwill gesture to China in the context of Trump’s self-declared “total reset” in their ties, but… Read More ›
Trump’s Gaza Agenda Clashes With Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ Ambitions By Uriel Araujo Trump’s potential plans to control Gaza’s gas reserves reveal tensions with Netanyahu’s own Greater Israel ambitions. Tel Aviv may finally drag Washington into the war it has long sought… Read More ›
Who Really Decides What “America First” Means? By Andrew Korybko The base and those top influencers who channel their interests (and at times add their own insight) arguably define MAGA, but Trump is the only one with the power to implement… Read More ›
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