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An explosives-laden drone parked beside a Ukrainian cargo plane at Germany's busiest NATO logistics hub, and did not detonate. What happened next, a rushed counterterrorism probe, a doubled anti-drone unit, and a government publicly split over invoking NATO Article 4, reveals how unprepared Europe still is for a war being fought below the threshold of war.

Baku has spent the last five years turning a small population and a modest military into outsized regional leverage - hosting Russian energy transit, Turkish ambition, Israeli intelligence ties, and now an American-run corridor, all at once. Here is why that balancing act matters far beyond the South Caucasus.