Turkiye is Pakistan’s decades-long military-technical partner, fully supports Islamabad’s approach to the Kashmir Conflict, and just entered into an official alliance with it. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after early September’s SCO leaders’ summit that his country would consider full membership in the bloc. He clarified that this […]
Author: Andrew KORYBKO
How Viable Is The Irtysh-Ob River System As A Eurasian Trade Corridor To The Arctic?
The economic and political costs are much too high, at least for the time being, to make this profitable. The South China Morning Post published an intriguing piece in late August about how China could use the Irtysh-Ob river system to connect to the Arctic Ocean via Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and […]
Russia Could Make An Energy Truce Conditional On Resuming Pipeline Exports To Europe
Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]
Trump’s Greenland Deal Is Essentially An Expanded Compact Of Free Association
This institutionalizes the “Strategy of Denial” on the world’s largest island by not only giving the US control over its security, but over its resources too, which could become a template that the US might replicate with others across Ibero-America and Africa as part of its systemic rivalry with China. […]
A Massive Belarusian-US Potash Deal Could Lead To Lukashenko’s Re-Embrace By The West
What’s most important is that Belarus coordinates all of this with Russia and that Lukashenko doesn’t pull any surprises on Putin that could inadvertently lead to mistrust or worse. Trump revealed that “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. […]
How’d United Russia Raise Its Share Of Votes Despite Wartime Hardships?
Their social contract of economic growth, security, and staying away from citizens’ personal lives for the most part has been greatly challenged by the ongoing conflict, but foreign efforts to influence voters into dealing the ruling party a defeat inspired them to defiantly rally around it instead. The ruling United […]
Putin Explained The Rise Of The AfD As The Consequence Of The EU’s Systemic Errors
Had former Chancellor Angela Merkel and her successors remained true to Helmut Kohl’s vision, then the AfD might never have become Germany’s most popular party, so its astronomical rise is entirely their fault. Putin was asked about the AfD’s recent landslide victory in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt on the sidelines of […]
Sikorski’s Prediction Of A Quick NATO Victory Over Russia Discredits Tusk’s Fearmongering
The ruling liberal coalition is suffering from “Russophrenia”. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote that Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has “Russophobia of the brain” after he declared that “we would defeat Russia quite quickly” “if Russia attacks us and we took our gloves off”. While her post claimed that he was referring […]
Here’s How China & India Can Meaningfully Help End The Ukrainian Conflict
Agreeing to dispatch their peacekeepers, particularly to the part of Donbass from which Ukraine might withdraw and the rest of the frontline at minimum, could be the spark required for moving the stalled peace process along and finally placing the conflict on the path to a comprehensive resolution. Kremlin spokesman […]
Five Reflections On The 25th Anniversary Of 9/11
It was a defining moment in the modern era that radically changed the course of history. The largest terrorist attack in modern history occurred a quarter-century ago when Al Qaeda operatives hijacked several planes and then crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Everyone remembers where they […]






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