The Midas Touch: Is Germany Again After Gold Reserves — This Time Poland’s — Ahead of War with Russia?

Behind the struggle over Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal lies a far larger geopolitical game: Warsaw’s army, its gold reserves, and its sovereignty itself may be at stake.

There are already developments lending urgency, as earlier discussed, giving rise to grave concerns, including recent troop deployments ordered by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has become increasingly prominent in the European security debate. According to claims circulating among intelligence-linked sources, German and Polish forces are also expected to be moved closer to the Russian border, particularly around Kaliningrad Oblast, ostensibly in anticipation of a possible Russian provocation, and of course, based on trusted intelligence sources.

The headlines are most revealing, leaves little room for imagination, Poland launches special operation on the border with Kaliningrad, and describes what many of us have already been writing about. And as one Polish source shared with me, and link too, as this article was being sent off for final editing:

Not Good News, Why Soldiers in Warsaw?

On November 3, Polish Member of Parliament Dariusz Matecki encountered German Bundeswehr personnel on Wiejska Street in Warsaw, in the immediate vicinity of the Polish Sejm (Parliament).

When Matecki approached the German soldiers and asked where they were from and what they were doing in the area, he was reportedly told that they were members of the Bundeswehr who had come to Warsaw for an exhibition.

Nevertheless, the encounter raises questions about the visibility and activities of foreign military personnel in the vicinity of Poland’s principal government institutions, particularly at a time of heightened military activity and expanding German involvement in Poland’s defence infrastructure and multinational military cooperation.

According to the German press, Poland has launched a major security operation along its 232-kilometre border with Russia’s........

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