Will Russia’s Retaliation To Ukraine’s Strategic Drone Strikes Decisively End The Conflict? By Andrew Korybko Tonight will be fateful for the conflict’s future. Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to… Read More ›
Trump’s Latest Angry Post About Putin Is His Most Significant One Yet By Andrew Korybko Trump is either being maliciously misinformed about the conflict from his trusted advisors (not counting Witkoff of course) or that he’s manipulatively creating the pretext for… Read More ›
Zelensky’s Illegitimacy Might Still Not Preclude Him From Signing Any Peace Documents By Andrew Korybko The fact that Peskov confirmed that Putin could hypothetically meet with Zelensky under certain conditions is proof of the Russian leader’s pragmatic desire to end the… Read More ›
Will Russia Inevitably Reconcile With The EU And Ukraine Like Putin Predicts? By Andrew Korybko He’s known for being a realist, not a wishful thinker, which is why his prediction was so surprising to many observers. Putin predicted a few weeks… Read More ›
Putin’s Victory Day Truce Is Meant To Reassure Trump Of His Peaceful Intentions By Andrew Korybko Putin might be concerned that Zelensky manipulated Trump against him after their latest meeting given Trump’s subsequent angry post about Putin. The Kremlin announced on Monday that… Read More ›
The US Will Struggle To Get Europe To Abide By Putin’s Demand To Stop Arming Ukraine By Andrew Korybko A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for… Read More ›
Why Did Russia Only Just Now Decree That Ukrainians Must Legalize Their Presence Or Leave? By Andrew Korybko This suggests that Russia expects a political settlement or at least an armistice within the next six months so it’s now prioritizing the… Read More ›
Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, And/Or Kharkov Regions? By Andrew Korybko This might be the only way to ensure Ukraine’s demilitarization if diplomacy fails. The nascent Russian–US “New Détente” didn’t lead to a ceasefire during the latest Putin–Trump call, thus meaning that the hot… Read More ›
Assessing Russian Hardliners’ Reportedly Envisaged Endgame In Ukraine By Andrew Korybko While there might indeed be some Russian hardliners who think that peace talks should just be a ruse for buying time to make more military gains, such attitudes don’t reflect… Read More ›
Will Putin Agree To A Ceasefire? By Andrew Korybko There are five compelling arguments for either scenario. Ukraine just agreed to a month-long ceasefire after talks with the US in Jeddah, but it’s conditional on Russia agreeing to the same, which remains uncertain…. Read More ›
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