The US could do to China in Myanmar what it’s currently doing to Russia in Ukraine.| korybko.substack.com
Laos would bolster its geopolitical balancing act while Russia could experiment with a new military-political partnership model that it might then fine-tune for its other Global South partners.| korybko.substack.com
This could raise the chances for a breakthrough somewhere along the front, help to decisively shift domestic public opinion against the conflict, and thus make it easier for “deep state” forces to conspire against Zelensky.| korybko.substack.com
The insight that he shared is extremely relevant in the context of the ongoing Russian-US talks.| TheAltWorld
While Afghanistan no longer functions as a US airbase in the Eurasian Heartland, it’s now a source of unconventional threats to the region, but it also has more geostrategic potential than ever before too.| TheAltWorld
To be clear, the explanations and forecasts shared in this analysis concern the scenario of a Russian rapprochement with the West upon the successful conclusion of peace talks with the US, they’re not in any way a declaration of what will absolutely come to pass.| korybko.substack.com
The path ahead will be very difficult due to the sensitive issues that Russia and the US must resolve.| korybko.substack.com
He wants to deter the even greater provocations that the West might now be plotting| TheAltWorld
Trump’s reported plan for a Western/NATO peacekeeping mission in Ukraine places Russia in the dilemma of either preempting this with another large-scale nationwide offensive, targeting those forces after they enter at the risk of sparking World War III, or tacitly accepting this endgame.| korybko.substack.com