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Geopolitical Analysis & Commentary by Gustavo de Arístegui

Kaliningrad, or the temptation of the abyss

Polish soldiers install barbed wire along the Polish border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad near the village of Zerdziny on Wednesday. (TOMASZ WSZCZUK, EFE News Agency)

Russia has put in writing what it had only hinted at until now: it is prepared to use nuclear weapons if anyone isolates Kaliningrad. This is not just another boast. It is part of a strategy that Europe continues to refuse to understand.

GEOPOLITICS REPORT

A building on fire

Today’s three news stories share a common thread: the war is no longer fought only on the front lines. It is being fought at an airbase in the English countryside, in the cockpit of a commercial airliner flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv, and in the diesel fuel depots of Europe.

GEOPOLITICS REPORT

Soldiers walking

The last 24 hours have revealed a similar pattern across three different theaters: the Western withdrawal is creating vacuums, and revisionist regimes are rushing to fill them.