Re-Evaluating Russia’s Special Operation In Light Of The Valdai Club’s Startling Insight By Andrew Korybko To be clear, the Valdai Club only represents one of Russia’s policymaking factions and their insight might not accurately reflect Putin’s calculations, which could always change… Read More ›
Was Scandinavia’s Russian Drone Scare A False Flag To Crack Down On Russia’s Shadow Fleet? By Andrew Korybko It’s highly suspicious that Zelensky just claimed without any evidence that they were launched by Russian tankers and subsequently demanded that Europe close… Read More ›
Russia Probably Didn’t Deliberately Target The Cabinet Of Ministers Building In Kiev By Andrew Korybko It’s difficult to imagine typically cautious and restrained Putin losing his cool and recklessly giving European warmongers exactly what they need for raising the chances that… Read More ›
Here’s What the US’ Security Guarantees For Ukraine Might Look Like By Andrew Korybko Trump appears to be pushing his luck with Putin, who’s open to compromises, not concessions, let alone significant security ones. If this approach doesn’t change, then a… Read More ›
Trump Putin Summit: What’s Standing In The Way Of A Grand Compromise On Ukraine? By Andrew Korybko The onus is now on Zelensky to reciprocate Putin’s widely perceived willingness to compromise for peace. Putin and Trump publicly confirmed that they found… Read More ›
What’s Responsible For The Upcoming Putin-Trump Summit? By Andrew Korybko One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve… Read More ›
Trump’s Shortened Deadline For Putin Will Soon Reveal Which Of Them Miscalculated By Andrew Korybko Polar opposite understandings of the Sino-Indo prisoner’s dilemma lie at the core of their calculations. Trump announced on Monday that he was shortening his 50-day deadline to Putin… Read More ›
Here’s How Lindsey Graham Manipulated Trump Against Putin By Andrew Korybko It all started by tricking Trump into thinking that Ukraine has trillions of dollars’ worth of rare earths. RT published two critical pieces about Lindsey Graham, “World War mastermind: Here’s… Read More ›
Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy By Andrew Korybko Sceptics might speculate that he’s playing “5D chess” as part of some “master plan” to “psyche out” the US but that doesn’t make much… Read More ›
Did Trump Know About Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes In Advance? By Andrew Korybko What follows are five relevant points, each accompanied by brief arguments about why they either do or do not prove that he really was aware, which’ll help readers… Read More ›
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