It was aimed at meddling in next Sunday’s parliamentary elections in order to help depose Orban. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the authorities discovered two bombs planted along the TurkStream gas pipeline transiting through his country. Their location in close proximity to the Hungarian border suggests that it was the target of this […]
Author: Andrew KORYBKO
The US Is Making A Play For Belarus’ Most Strategic Export
If the US becomes one of Belarus’ top potash clients after removing its sanctions on this resource, then its role as the main source of foreign currency for Belarus might accelerate their rapprochement, which the US envisages eventually weakening the Russian-Belarusian Strategic Partnership. Average consumers across the world have probably […]
Trump Might Finally Force NATO To Radically Reform
Never before has the US had the dual incentive for radically reforming NATO after the bloc refused its request to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the US now officially prioritizes restoring its dominance in the Western Hemisphere and containing China over containing Russia. Trump raged against NATO last […]
Ukraine’s Security Deals With The Gulf Are Worth Paying Attention To
The combined effect of the UAE and Saudi Arabia exerting pressure on Russia could really harm its interests. Zelensky dispatched drone experts and interceptor drones to the Gulf Kingdoms last month to aid them in thwarting Iranian attacks of the sort that Ukraine became accustomed to over the past four […]
Five Reasons Why The US Declined To Enforce Its De Facto Blockade On Cuba For Russia
Trump handed Putin a soft power victory that earned him thunderous applause from the World Majority. Trump declined to enforce the US’ de facto blockade on Cuba for a Russian oil tanker that was carrying enough fuel to meet the island’s needs for approximately one week. In his words, “We don’t […]
Lukashenko Is Acting Suspiciously Again
He promised to attend the next Peace Board meeting despite the US humiliating him by refusing to grant his representatives visas to the inaugural one that he couldn’t attend, insists that the US “never intended” to divide Belarus and Russia, and might soon be invited to the White House or […]
What’s Poland’s Role In The “Battle For Hungary”?
Tusk and Sikorski might have used the latter’s wife to plant the story about Szijjarto in the Washington Post and might have either been the ones who wiretapped him or at least knew about this through Sikorski’s ties with the journalist who passed along his number to a foreign intelligence […]
Israel’s Latest Strike On Syria Reinforces Its De Facto Buffer Zone
The Druze seem to be fine with this since they’d prefer being Israel’s junior partner over the risk of being slaughtered by their non-Druze “compatriots” like what happened to the Alawites last spring. Israel announced on Friday that it bombed Syrian military positions “in response to the events yesterday, in which Druze […]
Trump Might Have Approved Israel’s South Pars Strike After Iran Flirted With The Petroyuan
Iran’s rhetoric was highly reckless in any case since there was never any chance that the US would let the petroyuan dethrone the petrodollar without doing everything in its power to prevent this scenario. Trump denied in a social media post that the US knew about Israel’s attack against Iran’s South Pars […]
Russia’s Top UN Representative Reminded The World Of The West’s Responsibility To Afghanistan
The US has a moral responsibility to return Afghanistan’s seized assets, but morality doesn’t guide US policy, let alone under Trump 2.0 given its Hyper-Realist approach of declaring and then advancing national interests. Russia’s Permanent UN Representative Vasily Nebenzia gave a powerful speech about Afghanistan in early March. He condemned the West’s […]






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