The Leipzig Incident Has All The Hallmarks Of A False Flag Andrew Korybk Germany blamed Russia for last month’s incident in Leipzig when one explosives-laden drone was found on the tarmac in proximity to Ukrainian cargo planes, another reportedly collided with a separate cargo plane as it tried to land Read more
Russia’s Security Guarantee Requests Would Have Restored Ukraine’s Full Independence Andrew Korybko Aug 29, 2026 History can’t be changed, but lessons can be learned from it, which could help Russia, China, and Iran in the future. The 35th anniversary of Ukrainian independence is a timely occasion to reflect on the Read more
Is Sikorski’s “European Legion” Proposal A Way For Poland To Deploy “Peacekeepers” To Ukraine? Andrew Korybko Aug 25, 2026 Conservative President Karol Nawrocki is Poland’s Commander-in-Chief, but if the ruling liberal coalition’s Defense Minister places some Polish troops under EU control through the “European Legion”, then it’s unclear whether he Read more
A Pragmatically Amended 1956 Compromise Could Speedily Resolve The Kuril Islands Issue Andrew Korybko Aug 17, 2026 The amended 1956 compromise put forth in this piece would advance their interests and arguably also America’s as well but requires Russia to make the first move by informally floating this proposal. Putin’s Read more
Would Russia Really Cease To Exist Without Maximum Victory In The Ukrainian Conflict? Andrew Korybko Aug 10, 2026 What’s altogether most important in this thought exercise, which resembles the scenario implied by top Russian expert Vasily Kashin in late May, is that Russia keeps pace in the arms race and Read more
What Are The Odds That Ukraine Is Allowed To Use Starlink Or Starshield Over All Of Russia? Andrew Korybko Aug 03, 2026 Musk might understandably balk due to not wanting to provoke Putin into escalating out of self-defense in ways that risk World War III, but it remains unclear whether Read more
What’s Driving Germany’s Planned €800 Billion Remilitarization? Andrew Korybko Jul 20, 2026 Ideological, economic, and personal interests are responsible for the ruling liberal elite’s fateful decision that’ll lead to Germany replacing the US as Russia’s top perceived adversary. The Financial Times reported in early July that “Germany to borrow €800bn Read more
Budanov Crushed Ukrainian Nationalists’ Fantasy Of An Ethnically Pure State Andrew Korybko Jul 13, 2026 The irony is that they actually ended up building a liberal dystopia instead of a “fascist utopia”. The “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and their militant “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (UPA) wing, which genocided Poles and Read more
Poland Finally Realizes The Geostrategic Challenge Posed By Ukraine Andrew Korybko Jul 06, 2026 Poland’s leading conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita belatedly wrote about this. Polish journalist Marek Kutarba published a piece about how “Volodymyr Zelensky would like to take Donald Tusk’s place in European salons”. He wrote that, “From Kiev’s perspective, Read more
Poland Could Quickly Denazify Ukraine Without Firing A Single Shot But Tusk Refuses To Do So Andrew Korybko Jul 01, 2026 All that he has to do is threaten to stop having Poland serve as the transit state for 90% of Ukraine’s military-technical imports from NATO, which would either be Read more