Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

The timing of SVR’s warning about the West’s, and especially Poland’s and the US’, “NGO”-led Color Revolution plans in Belarus during its 2030 presidential elections might signal Russia’s concern that President Alexander Lukashenko is moving too fast in his détente with them due to naiveté. · Andrew Korybko · ussia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in earlier this week that a collection of Western countries, Poland and the US…

Brussels is devising a list of conditions on ending the Ukraine conflict, the foreign policy chief has said · EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Brussels, Belgium, January 22, 2026. ©  Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images · [RT] The EU intends to demand restrictions on the size of the Russian armed forces as part of any settlement of the Ukraine conflict, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, indicated on…

It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance. · Andrew Korybko · The US’ dispute with Europe over Trump’s planned acquisition of Greenland, in pursuit of which he even threatened punitive…

The prime minister has blasted the EU’s reported plan to make Ukraine a member in spite of Budapest’s objections · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Budapest, January 5, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · Brussels and Kiev have declared war on Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. His comments come amid reports that the EU is seeking to offer Ukraine a form of 'membership lite,’ despite the…

Beyond their appalling morals is an astonishing lack of style, imagination, and creativity. · John Leake · When I was in college in Boston I knew an old history professor who told me that, in his youth, he had been pals with an extremely handsome and charming young man who worked as Huntington Hartford’s procurer. · For readers who don’t remember Huntington Hartford: he was born in 1911 in New York. In 1922, when he was eleven…

The chance for peace between Moscow and Kiev was lost in 2022 due to the meddling of the then-British prime minister, Andrej Babis has said · FILE PHOTO. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Lviv, Ukraine. ©  Getty Images / Anadolu / Pavlo Palamarchuk · [RT] Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has accused former British leader Boris Johnson of derailing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine early on in the…

We’re excited to share the latest episode of Promethean Overviews. In this installment, Mike Steger examines the rise of a modern confederacy—a system built through globalization that hollowed out American cities, dismantled manufacturing, and replaced production with dependency and control. · [Mike Steger] · Promethean Action Overviews is dedicated to exposing the economic and historical forces shaping the future of the American…

It’s possible that the US – whether under Trump 2.0 or whichever administration, including a possible Democrat one, comes afterwards – might agree to transfer its tactical nukes to Estonia in parallel with a possible British F-35A deployment to the latter’s base there. · Andrew Korybko · The Daily Mail cited Pentagon funding proposals to report in late December that the US plans to once again store tactical nukes in the UK upon renovating…

Clandestine · Observe the timeline: · June 2025, Trump and Elon have a very public social media spat that leads to a falling out, in which Elon claims Trump is in the Epstein files. · The result of this feud was a MASSIVE rise in public interest in Epstein, particularly on the Left. · Jump to the present, Trump and Elon have slowly and quietly gotten back on good terms. Elon has attended multiple events with Trump, including private…

The issue was reportedly discussed on the sidelines of the Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi · FILE PHOTO. ©  Global Look Press / Sergey Elagin · [RT] Moscow and Washington are working on a deal to continue the New START nuclear reduction treaty, Axios reported on Thursday, citing three sources familiar with the issue. The strategic arms control agreement officially expired on February 5. · Signed in 2010, the treaty put…