Posted on 10/09/2025 8:18:06 AM PDT by delta7
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk believes the man who allegedly destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline did his country a great service. Tusk is considering breaking international law by harboring the fugitive who is wanted by the German government. The man, of course, will be the scapegoat for the incident. More telling is Warsaw’s response, rooted in old geopolitical tensions and willful ignorance of how drastically the explosion hurt their own economy.
“The problem of Europe, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built,” Tusk said. “It is certainly not in the interest of Poland to hand over this citizen to a foreign country.” Poland will hold the man in its custody for an additional 40 days, during which it will consider Germany’s demand that he be extradited for prosecution.
“Russia, with money from some European states and German and (Anglo-) Dutch companies, built Nord Stream 2 against the vital interests not only of our states, but of all of Europe, and there can be no ambiguity about that,” Tusk concluded.
Poland has always been caught between Germany and Russia. From the Polish partitions in the 18th century to Soviet domination in the 20th, the Polish political class views any direct German-Russian cooperation as an existential threat. Poland initially protested the pipeline because it felt that Germany was attempting to remove Eastern Europe’s main bargaining chip with Moscow — energy transportation. They invested in LNG terminals, aligned with US energy interests, and positioned themselves as the eastern front against both Russian and EU central control.
The European Union and the euro could never erase generations of geopolitical hatred and scars. Warsaw simply sees Berlin as the lesser of two evils when it comes to Moscow. Tusk’s comments are a deliberate attempt to create friction with Germany and undermine the power they continue to hold over Poland as the economic center of the EU.
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One bad apple spoils the bunch, and in the case of Europe, one bad economy will do the trick. Europe was reliant on Russian energy for many years prior to the war. Poland was purchasing 95.5% of its oil from Russia in 2012; the figure declined to 63.1% by 2021 before the war. Yet, Tusk is condemning former German Chancellor Angela Merkel for agreeing to the Nord Stream pipeline. Energy prices spiked by 30% after the pipeline demolition, fueling valid fears of energy shortages across the continent.
The pipeline itself may have been a Russian majority asset, but the infrastructure projects and joint ventures sprouting from the pipeline benefited Europe. European firms, including Wintershall Dea (Germany), E.ON (PEG Infrastruktur, Germany), Gasunie (Netherlands), and ENGIE (France), collectively held 49% of the Nord Stream AG operating company, while Gazprom itself retained 51%.
By now, the world knows that Western intelligence agencies deliberately targeted the pipeline in an act of war. The man detained would be considered a terrorist if these charges were factual. Perhaps they do not want to conduct a fake investigation or trial that would raise suspicions. Tusk needs to look down and realize he’s been shot in the foot with the destruction of this pipeline that ALL of Europe, not merely Germany, benefited from.
Tusk is pure DAVOS man
German cops are pretty satisfied that a Ukrainian team committed the act. Whether this one guy will flip on the others or not...unknown. Convictable? Maybe, but this is the type of court-case that would take 18 months to conclude.
Because Russia is an enemy.
And no one committed suicide.
Russia and Hitler literally started World War II by invading Poland, which led to worldwide destruction, the death camps, the Warsaw Ghetto Horrors, on and on.
And Putin, vile POS that he is, gives speeches in which he blames Poland for this.
Just like he blames Ukraine, and he also talks about crazy schemes of Poland and Russia dividing Ukraine between them.
Poland could not be any more Justified for its enmity toward Russia and Putin.
Celebrating a criminal act during a war, by a NATO nation isn’t a good look. I don’t agree with the ‘blowing up’ of the Nordstream pipeline. All Europe had to do was stop accepting the products, which they still haven’t done, without destroying property or creating an environmental issue.
How did this guy and his team pull off this stunt? Hundreds of feet under near freezing water is no small obstacle.
So punish him where he is.
The US did this under Biden. Ukrainians did not have the support needed to commit this act. We had assets at the location when it happened. Joe Biden literally said we did it.
He didn’t, the US did it.
If only Tusk was as pro-Poland against encroachments of the EU as he is in portraying himself to be vis-a-vis Russia.
When Poland’s national government passed judicial reform legislation he sat at the EU as head of the European Council and there he supported EU sanctions against his own government. The reforms were designed to end circumstances carried over in the change in Poland to a real democracy. Former judges under the communists were allowed to keep their positions in the new democracy. The entire judiciary was infected with them, all the way to the top. They were continually blocking reforms the Conservatives in Poland were putting through legislatively. Tusk agreed with EU sanctions against Poland for those reforms.
Now he wants Poles to think of him as a nationalist. He wants to be reelected in 2027 while his party lost the Polish Presidency this year. In Poland some executive powers reside with the Presidency and some with the Prime Minister (position Tusk holds at present).
Wait, at the end of 2027, they will -- maybe.
"The EU will gradually and effectively stop the import of Russian gas and oil by the end of 2027, under a legislative proposal put forward by the European Commission today. "That's the proposal.....Commission proposes gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports into the EU European Commisson, 16 June 2025.
More sources....
EU Proposes Ban on Russian Oil, Gas Imports by End 2027 Wall Street Journal, 17 June 2025.
EU plans gradual end to Russian gas and oil imports by 2027 Financial World, 17 June 2025.
EU proposes complete ban on Russian gas and oil imports by end of 2027 World ECR from Dow Jones, 19 June 2025.
EU sets 2027 as deadline to phase out all Russian energy Euro News, 6 May 2025.
EU proposes keeping gas storage filling goals until 2027 Reuters, 5 May 2025.
EU plans to stop Russian gas and oil imports MB>by 2027 Yahoo Finance, 18 June 2025.
Here was another "proposal" by Tusk sometime back:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025
Trump should immediately sanction Tusk for supporting and offering to harbor a terrorist
Very true. Germany, particularly Angela Merkel, rewarded Putin by starting the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in 2015, after Putin had seized Crimea in 2014 and started a separatist war in Ukraine.
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