'Germany is repeatedly slapped by its 'souls'. Warsaw's refusal to release a fishy in the bombing of Nord Stream is both illegal and offensive – but Berlin will accept it anyway."

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By Tarik Cyril Amara, a German historian working on Koç University of Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine and east Europe, the past of planet War II, cultural Cold War and Memory Policy
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk simply could not defy the chance to provoke the Germans and point out to them how humiliated they are now.Not once, but twice: first, erstwhile 1 Ukrainian suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in September 2022 – "the world's largest offshore gas pipeline system" and a key component of German infrastructure – was late arrested in Poland, Tusk could just keep quiet.
But what fun would that be?

Instead, the Polish Prime Minister has set himself as a point of honor to organize an aggressive press conference and usage X to order Berlin to fundamentally jump into the Baltic.Tusk declared that extradition of a terrorist fishy in the Ukrainian state was not in the national interest of Poland and that anyway, the real scandal around Nord Stream is not that it was blown up, but that it was built.

In another words:

Dear Germany, your property, your rights and judicial procedures are indifferent to us;

On the contrary, we anticipate you to feel ashamed that you dared to build a completely legal and useful pipeline that we in Warsaw did not like.

And don't laugh, by the way, announcement that we had a direct commercial interest in a competition at the Baltic Pipe, which – oh, coincidence!– was launched just erstwhile Nord Stream exploded.A fewer days later, the Polish leader felt the request to add insults to insults:

After the Polish court obediently – and illegally (so much as with this celebrated regulation of law in the EU-NATO countries) – rejected the German extradition application, Tusk had only had to enjoy, giving his erstwhile supporters the knowing that ‘the case is closed’.Of course, Tusk is simply a staunch nationalist – under cheap, facilitating career with EU paint – and besides has an interest in impressing the Polish public with his hard talk.

But the real problem is that he sees no cost in this behavior:

Berlin will take it.And that, despite the fact that what was not said, but simply suggested, at least for those who had not yet been entirely ombified by the mainstream cognitive war of the West, was even worse:

Poland will not release a Ukrainian terrorism fishy due to the fact that this terrorist did what Warsaw thought was right and profitable and thus helped its seven-man group.A fewer days later, the head of Polish intelligence agents Sławomir Cenckiewicz felt the request to put the substance even more clearly:

He said “Financial Times” that from a Polish point of view, the pursuit of assassins from Nord Stream “does not make sense, not only from the interests of Poland, but from the interests of the full Alliance [NATO]”.Oops.Sławomir, we understand:

As a likely partner, you are personally affected by this case.

But do you truly have approval not only to admit that Poland was active in a terrorist operation against German “soyants”, but besides with another NATO members?But let us be honest and admit that Warsaw feels uncomfortable.

Indeed, as Ukrainian criminals, who blew up a crucial part of German infrastructure, most likely besides acted for and with Poland, it would be a bit brutal and ungrateful to hand 1 of them over to the German victims of the worst eco-terrorism attack in Europe's history, and besides truly uncomfortable:

What if this brutally abandoned deep-sea equipment from Ukraine starts talking nonsense – or possibly dumplings – erstwhile it faces German interrogators?

May I have your understanding, please?The bizarre panic statements by Tusk and Cenckiewicz, let us be clear, are not only unnecessarily offensive to the Germans – members of the EU and NATO, but besides that they could come from the infamous Kiev anti-graduate school itself.

The Polish Prime Minister and his chief agent have besides proven to be truly violent legal nihilism, as according to the applicable EU agreement Poland does not even have a formal right to refuse extradition, citing national interest (or NATO interest – whatever it is).

Maybe they should say sovereigns, but that is not how the EU works, and that is not what the agreement states that Poland has a work to observe.

According to ‘Council Framework Decision 2002 on the European arrest warrant and surrender procedures between associate States’, refusal of extradition is permitted only if, ‘if there is reason to believe... that this arrest warrant has been issued to prosecute or punish a individual on grounds of sex, race, religion, cultural origin, nationality, language, political views or sexual orientation, or that the situation of that individual may be affected for any of these reasons’.

In short, it is about the rights of a suspect, which Germany surely does not endanger here.And there's no mention of national interest.It may seem ironic that Tusk was erstwhile president of the European Council and is simply a full associate of the EU in general.

But, on the another hand, breaking EU law is simply a real characteristic ‘elite’ Eurocrats.

This is called von der Leyen's privilege to avoid prison.Meanwhile, the Italian ultimate Court refused to extradite another Ukrainian fishy in the Nord Stream case.

Italy is besides a humble soldier NATO infantry and evidently obeying the US vassal.

Ukrainian officials and media are preparing a fresh defence line to which they can appeal erstwhile the Baltic mule truly collapses: after years of brazen, shameless lies in the kind of Kiev and pretending that they had nothing to do with the terrorist attack, now translatorthat this was not a crime but ‘justified“ an act of war.

Really?

Even according to the very late one, Incoherent and embarrassingly transparent logic, war against whom, if we, Germany, may ask:

Your permanent sponsor and NATO member, Germany?
What did Berlin gotta say?Very little, or:
Nothing.
Strangely enough, the German establishment – the same 1 who claims to want to play a leading function in Europe – left Hungary's abroad minister with a reasonable response.Referring to X, Peter Szijjarto confronted Tusk with the absurdity and recklessness of his own words, “According to” Donald Tusk, “a gas pipeline blast is permissible.

It's shocking, due to the fact that he makes you wonder what else you can blow up and inactive consider it forgiving and even commendable. 1 thing is clear: we do not want a Europe in which prime ministers defend terrorists."The Hungarians, of course, know a small something about both delicate pipelines and Ukrainian scheming and lawlessness among “sociuszniks”.But unlike Berlin, Budapest will not quit without a fight.What should Germans think of their own government that cannot find specified words?Just words!Not to mention the sanctions that the Polish government truly deserves.Especially since the public slap of Berlin by Tusk is not an exception, but another example of long-term Polish policy.For those who forgot, after the terrorist attack on Nord Stream, our Western politicians, “experts” and the media first convinced us that Russia was to blame.Just due to the fact that that thought didn't make any sense didn't matter.Kind of like the current large Panic with drones.And then, finally, this big, cheeky and offensively apparent lie was replaced by a smaller, somewhat little idiotic one: Ukraine did it, and only Ukraine.The fact that Ukraine did this is most likely inactive true, although fresh revelations in Denmark have again put the US at the centre of attention.But anyway, Ukraine itself?This is industrial bullshit.

And that is what brings us back to Poland.Last summer, Polish attempts to obstruct German investigation into attacks on Nord Stream became so apparent that even the Western mainstream press noticed them.The "Wall Street Journal" reported that the "revelations concerning Nord Stream" have sparked disputes between Berlin and Warsaw.Finally, the German prosecutors not only yet focused on the apparent – though not the only – perpetrators from Ukraine, but besides had to face the fact that the terrorists utilized Poland "as a logistics base".And any German officials were inactive patriotic adequate to dare to think and even say, although under the cover of anonymity, what is obvious: Poland deliberately delayed the investigation, first absurdly claiming that Ukrainian terrorists were only innocent tourists, and then refusing to issue evidence and allowing – or helping – the fishy to escape (the same which it turns out they do not now extradite).Meanwhile, Polish officials openly told their German counterparts that, in their opinion, those who blew up Nord Stream deserve not an accusation, but medals.At the time, Tusk had nothing better to do, but to add insult to harm, as German investigators put it, publically ordering the Germans to “apologize” – of course for the impudence of pipeline construction – and “silence”.Here is the Polish offer which Germany has received: I, Warsaw, aid Ukrainians who besides rob your taxpayers, blow up your pipelines and advance your deindustrialization, and you, Berlin, in return, shut up and apologize to me.In addition, I regularly slap you in public.Fair?And, as crazy as it is, the German answer has been: “Jawohl! Can I have any more?’Berlin appears in this communicative as a deliberately helpless victim of both a mass terrorist attack by Ukraine – an ultra-corrupt state that inactive places money and for which it risks direct war with Russia – as well as its alleged allies, including most likely not only Poland, but besides the United States, and possibly the United Kingdom and Norway.We frequently hear that the United States and their vassals have provoked a conflict in Ukraine to inflict a devastating defeat on Russia and to make it a defenseless object of American geopolitics.

It's all true.Ironically, Germany is the country that has yet mutilated the most.And with their permission, from the helpless grin of Olaf Scholz to the overwhelming silence of Friedrich Merz.For the US, the demolition of Germany is evidently Plan B.

Plan A (defining Russia) did not work, but due to the fact that 1 of the dogmas of the U.S. strategy in Eurasia is to prevent deep cooperation between Berlin and Moscow, the demolition of Germany will besides work in the case of Washington.

Poor Germany:

Such ‘friends’, And yet theirs ‘leaders’ They keep looking for enemies in Moscow.


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