Would Russia Really Cease To Exist Without Maximum Victory In The Ukrainian Conflict? Andrew Korybko Aug 10, 2026 What’s altogether most important in this thought exercise, which resembles the scenario implied by top Russian expert Vasily Kashin in late May, is that Russia keeps pace in the arms race and Read more
What Are The Odds That Ukraine Is Allowed To Use Starlink Or Starshield Over All Of Russia? Andrew Korybko Aug 03, 2026 Musk might understandably balk due to not wanting to provoke Putin into escalating out of self-defense in ways that risk World War III, but it remains unclear whether Read more
What’s Driving Germany’s Planned €800 Billion Remilitarization? Andrew Korybko Jul 20, 2026 Ideological, economic, and personal interests are responsible for the ruling liberal elite’s fateful decision that’ll lead to Germany replacing the US as Russia’s top perceived adversary. The Financial Times reported in early July that “Germany to borrow €800bn Read more
Budanov Crushed Ukrainian Nationalists’ Fantasy Of An Ethnically Pure State Andrew Korybko Jul 13, 2026 The irony is that they actually ended up building a liberal dystopia instead of a “fascist utopia”. The “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and their militant “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (UPA) wing, which genocided Poles and Read more
Poland Finally Realizes The Geostrategic Challenge Posed By Ukraine Andrew Korybko Jul 06, 2026 Poland’s leading conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita belatedly wrote about this. Polish journalist Marek Kutarba published a piece about how “Volodymyr Zelensky would like to take Donald Tusk’s place in European salons”. He wrote that, “From Kiev’s perspective, Read more
Poland Could Quickly Denazify Ukraine Without Firing A Single Shot But Tusk Refuses To Do So Andrew Korybko Jul 01, 2026 All that he has to do is threaten to stop having Poland serve as the transit state for 90% of Ukraine’s military-technical imports from NATO, which would either be Read more
Ukraine’s Spree Of Strikes Against Russia Is More Showmanship Than Strategy Andrew Korybko Jun 27, 2026 The primary motive is to produce dramatic visuals for helping Ukraine’s overall cause as war fatigue in the West becomes more palpable and Trump’s political one ahead of November’s midterms after his loss to Read more
Russia Must Defeat Ukraine Before Trump 2.0’s “War Of Attrition” Really Gets Going Andrew Korybko Jun 22, 2026 The only reprieve in that dark scenario, other than obliterating Ukraine to neutralize the NATO threats emanating from there once and for all per the special operation’s goal, would be for Russia Read more
Who Won The Third Gulf War? Andrew Korybko Jun 15, 2026 Iran is poised to gradually return to the US-led Western order within certain limits exactly as Iran’s moderate faction has long wanted, its hardline faction has successfully preserved the armed forces and their missile stockpile, while Israel achieved none Read more
France’s “Forward Deterrence” Vis-à-vis Russia Raises The Risk Of Nuclear War Andrew Korybko Jun 01, 2026 France’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed Rafale jets armed in the Arctic, Central Europe, and possibly also the Balkans poses a qualitatively new strategic threat to Russia. The announcement in late April that France and Read more