The Latest Estonian-Russian “Border Scare” Is An Example Of “Reflexive Control” By Andrew Korybko Russia creatively employed “reflexive control” to troll Estonia by placing its officials in a zero-sum dilemma whereby whichever response they’d resort to would advance Russia’s soft power… Read More ›
Was Scandinavia’s Russian Drone Scare A False Flag To Crack Down On Russia’s Shadow Fleet? By Andrew Korybko It’s highly suspicious that Zelensky just claimed without any evidence that they were launched by Russian tankers and subsequently demanded that Europe close… Read More ›
NATO Might Try To Down Russian Jets On The False Pretext That They Violated Its Airspace By Andrew Korybko If it turns out that Trump’s flip-flop on Ukraine was just him paying lip service to NATO’s goal of inflicting a strategic… Read More ›
Estonia’s Airspace Violation Allegation Against Russia Is Politically Self-Serving By Andrew Korybko It’s difficult to believe that Russia would so brazenly provoke NATO at the risk of ruining talks with the US and consequently escalating tensions, but that’s what some want… Read More ›
The UK Aims To Entrench Its Influence In Estonia In Order To Lead The Arctic-Baltic Front By Andrew Korybko The possible deployment of nuclear-capable F-35As there, which could be equipped with US air-to-ground nukes since the UK no longer has its… Read More ›
Estonia’s Russophobic Policies: A Maidan-style Crisis In the Making? By Uriel Araujo Estonia’s 2025 voting ban, affecting 80,000 Russians, plus Estonian-only education and Orthodox Church restrictions, sparks Russophobia concerns. Soviet monument demolitions and Waffen-SS glorification risk Baltic instability, echoing Ukraine’s Maidan…. Read More ›
Estonia Might Become Europe’s Next Trouble Spot By Andrew Korybko The latest socio-political and security developments suggest that it relishes being a frontline state. Estonia catapulted back into international news after it recently seized an alleged vessel from Russia’s so-called “shadow… Read More ›
Explaining Russia’s Restrained Response To Estonia Seizing One Of Its “Shadow Fleet” Vessels By Andrew Korybko Russia wants to avoid falling into the UK’s trap for sabotaging its rapprochement with the US by credibly threatening military force against Estonia in response… Read More ›
Gulf Of Finland Might Become The Site Of New Conflict Between NATO And Russia By Uriel Araujo Finland and Estonia, two NATO countries, have recently signed an agreement about Baltic Sea security. Moreover, and more importantly, they have announced their intention to… Read More ›
Don’t Forget About How NATO’s North-eastern Flank Can Stir Up A Lot Of Trouble For Russia By Andrew Korybko Estonia wouldn’t talk about blockading the Gulf of Finland without prior encouragement from the US. Most of the discourse surrounding the NATO-Russian proxy… Read More ›
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