Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just couldn’t resist an opportunity to bait the Germans and rub it in just how humiliated they are now. And not once but twice: First, when one of the Ukrainians suspected of executing the September 2022 terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines – the “world’s largest offshore pipeline system” and vital piece of German infrastructure – was recently arrested in Poland, Tusk could have simply kept quiet.

But what would have been the fun in that? Instead, the Polish prime minister made a point of holding an aggressive press conference and also using X to tell Berlin to, in essence, go and jump in the Baltic.

Tusk declared that extraditing the Ukrainian state terrorist suspect is not in Poland’s national interest, and that, anyhow, the real scandal about Nord Stream is not that it was blown up but that it was built. In other words: Dear Germans, we do not give a damn about your property, rights, or judicial procedures; on the contrary we expect you to feel ashamed for ever having dared construct a perfectly legal and useful pipeline that we in Warsaw didn’t like. And dare not notice, by the way, that we had a direct commercial interest in the Baltic Pipe competition that – oh, coincidence! – went online just when Nord Stream exploded.

Then, a few days later, the Polish leader felt the need to add insult to insult: After a Polish court obediently – and illegally (so much for that famed rule of law in EU-NATO-land) – denied the German extradition request, Tusk just had to gloat, letting his X followers know that “the case is closed.”

Obviously, Tusk is a raving nationalist – under that cheap, career-facilitating EU varnish – and he also has an interest in impressing the Polish public with his tough talk. Yet the real issue is that he perceives no cost to this behavior: Berlin will take it.

And that despite the fact that what wasn’t said but implied, at least for anyone not yet fully zombified by the West’s mainstream cognitive warfare, was even worse: Poland won’t extradite a suspected Ukrainian terrorist because that terrorist did what Warsaw considered the right and profitable thing to do, and thus, helped his group of seven do.

Then, a few days later, the head of Poland’s spooks, Slawomir Cenckiewicz, felt the itch to make things even clearer: He told the Financial Times that from the Polish point of view, going after the Nord Stream bombers “

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