A Lithuanian Drone Provocation Almost Derailed Witkoff’s And Kushner’s Trip To Moscow By Andrew Korybko Had it not been downed over the Belarusian border city of Grodno and instead passed into Poland on the way to the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training,… Read More ›
What’s Really Behind The Latest Border Tensions Between Belarus And Lithuania? By Andrew Korybko It’s possible that this is a “plausibly deniable” powerplay by Belarus as part of the “big deal” that it’s negotiating with the US. Lithuania closed its border… Read More ›
Ukraine Is At The Centre Of Three Interlocking Triangles For Containing Russia By Andrew Korybko These are the 2020 Lublin Triangle (Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania), the 2022 de facto alliance between Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, and early August’s Odessa Triangle… Read More ›
Duelling Military Drills Might Become The New Normal In Central And Eastern Europe By Andrew Korybko This dynamic is driven by the Western elite’s geopolitical interests in fearmongering about Russia and their economic ones in enriching themselves from this through investments… Read More ›
There Might Be More To The Von Der Leyen-GPS-Russia Hoax Than Scoring Cheap Infowar Points By Andrew Korybko NATO might exploit this hoax as the pretext for commencing large-scale but “plausibly deniable” electronic warfare provocations against Kaliningrad that could spike the… Read More ›
Some Lithuanians Are Turning Against The Pro-Western Belarusian Diaspora By Andrew Korybko Lithuanians don’t want to share the legacy of their eponymous Grand Duchy with Belarusians. Several dozen Lithuanians recently protested in Vilnius demanding that the government revoke the accreditation and funding that… Read More ›
The Lublin Triangle: From Neo-Commonwealth Dreams To Geopolitical Drift By Andrew Korybko It’ll never fulfil its initial aim of creating a Neo-Commonwealth though. The Foreign Ministers of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine met in the eastern Polish city of Lublin in late… Read More ›
Nawrocki’s Election Pushed Tusk To Play Hardball With Poland’s Neighbours On Illegal Immigration By Andrew Korybko What’s most important to him personally is retaining power by preventing the collapse of his government, but if that’s unavoidable, then he at the very… Read More ›
Germany’s Lithuanian Base Complicates A Grand Russian-US Deal Over European Security By Andrew Korybko No return to the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act is now possible without German agreement. Germany just opened its first permanent military base abroad since World War II amidst the competition for… Read More ›
Lithuania’s Provocative Remark About Kaliningrad Doesn’t Equate To A Territorial Claim By Andrew Korybko Referring to places by the names that a certain group once used doesn’t automatically imply territorial claims, though it can be interpreted as such depending on the… Read More ›
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