Envoy killed in a ‘parallel universe’
The Russian ambassador was killed in Ankara on the evening of Dec. 19 . The killer, a 22-year-old Turkish graduate of the police academy who had been fired in July after being deemed untrustworthy, fired 11 bullets into the ambassador’s back as he finished addressing the attendees at the opening of the Russia Through Turkish […]
Continue reading...17. March 2017
Hybrid War Can Wreak Havoc Across West Africa (I)
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
The last part of the African continent to be analyzed in the Hybrid War vulnerability study is its western core region around Nigeria. This part of Africa is significant for many reasons, not least of which are its demographic and energy potential. Nigeria importantly sits at the juncture of what observers traditionally delineate as West […]
Continue reading...11. March 2017
Analyzing Austria’s “Refugee”/Immigrant Proposal For The EU Periphery
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
The Austrians recently called on the Western Balkans, Georgia, and Egypt to build “refugee”/immigrant centers for processing and potentially indefinitely housing the hundreds of thousands of non-Western individuals that are streaming into the EU. Mr. Sebastian Kurz told the German Bild am Sonntag newspaper that “It is not that important where exactly they [the centers] […]
Continue reading...10. March 2017
Hybrid Wars 8. South Sudan’s Total Collapse Could Destroy Central And Eastern Africa
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
The Failed State Belt The second-last African region under Hybrid War study is the Failed State Belt of South Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR), which together form a black hole of chaos in the North-Central part of the continent. These states weren’t always the disorderly and dysfunctional, but were made so because of […]
Continue reading...24. February 2017
Hybrid Wars 8. China, Cobalt, And The US’ Color Revolution Plans For The Congo
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
China secured one of the most important deals of this century so far, and it’s the $2.65 billion that it paid for the Tenke mine in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, or hereafter referred to simply as the Congo) at the end of May. The Financial Times has an […]
Continue reading...17. February 2017
Hybrid Wars 8. Is Southern Africa About To Be Shaken Up?
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Commonly thought of as a bastion of peace and stability in the continent ever since the turn of the century, the southern part of Africa is once more returning to the spotlight of global attention. Zimbabwean officials have alleged that the American and French embassies are behind the latest Color Revolution commotion in the country, […]
Continue reading...16. February 2017
Trump and the “Ruskies”
By Leftist Critic
Recent days in US politics almost seem like a plot out of a Hollywood movie, except that they are happening and have real consequences. After Gen. Mike Flynn was ousted from his post as National Security Advisor, for daring to speak to the Russians, possibly about sanctions, but also possibly not, tensions by Russophobic politicians […]
Continue reading...14. February 2017
Who is afraid of peace in Afghanistan?
By Amb. M. K. BHADRAKUMAR (India)
The six-nation conference on Afghanistan due to be held in Moscow on Wednesday – including Russia, China, India, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan – is already in the US’ crosshairs. A Voice of America commentary has accused that by taking this initiative, “Russia is more interested in undermining the United States than in solving the regional […]
Continue reading...10. February 2017
Hybrid Wars 8. South Atlantic Africa
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
As the third-largest economy in sub-Saharan Africa and the continent’s number one oil producer, Angola seems set for a promising future. The country finally pulled out of a 27-year long civil war in 2002 and has been rapidly building up its infrastructure ever since, even if its economy still retained its energy-exporting dependence. The economic […]
Continue reading...9. February 2017
How Trump’s Trying To Win Back Turkey
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
It should be evident to all objective observers by now that “America First” doesn’t equate to international isolationism or peace. Rather, just as the author predicted in his Sputnik analysis on Trump’s foreign policy right after his election, the 45th President is taking a firm stand against Iran and China, and even making overtures to […]
Continue reading...8. February 2017
What Nikki Haley should know about annexed Crimea
By Arina TSUKANOVA (Russia)
The speech by the new US permanent representative to the UN Security Council, Nikki Haley, at a Security Council meeting on 3 February backed up the idea that the new administration policy on Crimea will be followed up. Haley said exactly the same nonsense as Samantha Power before her: «Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in […]
Continue reading...3. February 2017
Hybrid Wars 8. Malawi and Zambia
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
The landlocked countries of Malawi and Zambia are little-known to the rest of the world, yet they occupy very strategic positions in the continental interconnectivity projects and Hybrid War projections. Zambia is situated smack dab in the center of north-south and east-west corridors, while Malawi – for all of its poverty and underdevelopment – is […]
Continue reading...30. January 2017
Iranian media: Trump is on course to break us
By Andrew KORYBKO (USA)
Last week Andrew Korybko gave an extensive interview to the leading Iranian news agency Mashregh (part I, part II). He talked about the Eurasian dimension of his Hybrid Warfare theory, Syria crisis, Obama’s latent agenda to overthrow Iranian regime and Trump’s ambitions to carry out “Green Revolution 2.0”. ORIENTAL REVIEW publishes its full original text […]
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- Hybrid War Can Wreak Havoc Across West Africa (IV)
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- The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency in military terms
- Hybrid Wars 1. The Law Of Hybrid Warfare (113)
- The Reverse Brzezinski: The Ultimate Eurasian Dilemma (I) (97)
- Washington’s Nightmare Comes True: The Russian-Chinese Strategic Partnership Goes Global (I) (77)
- Grandmaster Putin’s Trap (63)
- Bloodbath in Odessa guided by interim rulers of Ukraine (51)
- How China’s Balkan Silk Road Can Resurrect South Stream (47)
- KALIBRating the foe: strategic implications of the Russian cruise missiles’ launch (47)
- Hybrid Wars 7. How The US Could Manufacture A Mess In Myanmar (I) (47)
- Why’s The US Hanging Turkey Out To Dry? (41)
- Hybrid Wars 6. Trick To Containing China (I) (39)
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- War of the worlds: masks are ripped away in Syria
- The Olympics as a tool of the new Cold War
- 1945 Nazi crackdown: yes, we can re-show it!
- Ukraine is turning into Liberia: “The love of liberty brought us here”
- Seventy years of harassing political establishment and people of Europe
- Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists
- Putin’s Global Game Changer
- Reformatting Ukraine is on the agenda
- Arms to the sadists: US Congress urges Pres. Obama to provide Ukraine with more torture techniques
21. December 2016
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