Germany is bound to be displeased with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s refusal to hand over a Nord Stream bombing suspect. The individual was recently detained near Warsaw under a European arrest warrant but Tusk just said that

“He was detained because this is the procedure, but the position of the Polish government has not changed. It is certainly not in the interest of Poland or in the interest of a simple sense of decency and justice to accuse or hand over this citizen to another state.”

The German government was convinced by US media reports about a team of Ukrainian divers’ alleged involvement in this terrorist attack into blaming them instead of the US government like Seymour Hersh first revealed in February 2023 was responsible and who Russia has always suspected to be guilty of this. According to him, the aforementioned narrative blaming Ukraine, and to a lesser extent Poland from whose coast their ship was allegedly launched, is part of a CIA plot to cover up what really happened.

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His suspicions were lent credence by incumbent Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, who was out of government at the time but had also served in this role under Tusk’s earlier government, after he posted “Thank you, USA” in a now-deleted tweet right after the terrorist attack. Poland opposed the Nord Stream pipelines due to its fear that they represented a new Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact for jointly ruling Central Europe so it’s natural that he’d celebrate their destruction. Here are some background briefings:

Circling back to the present, it’s now much easier to understand why Poland refuses to hand over that Nord Stream bombing suspect to Germany. Most Poles support the terrorist attack that damaged three of those four pipelines, so it would be very unpopular to do anything that could lead to anyone involved in this (even if only implausibly) getting punished. Doing so could also doom the ruling liberal-globalist coalition’s already dismal prospects of remaining in power after fall 2027’s next parliamentary elections.

Moreover, the conservative-nationalist opposition’s “grey cardinal” Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused Tusk of being a “German agent” almost two years ago during comments in parliament, which would appear more believable than ever to Poles if he defied public opinion to hand that suspect over to Germany. In that scenario, Germany could stage a show trial for partially implicating Poland per the CIA’s cover-up story, which would impugn its reputation right as it’s finally reviving its long-lost Great Power status.

Reports that Sikorski is considering granting asylum to the suspect and Tusk’s recent tweet that “The problem with North Stream 2 is not that it was blown up. The problem is that it was built” do make Poland look guilty in some’s eyes but they’re arguably meant to troll Germany. Poland and Russia rarely agree on anything nowadays, but they’ve interestingly found common ground in opposing Germany’s CIA-influenced belief that Ukrainian divers carried out this attack, each for their own reasons of course.

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Andrew Korybko is an American Moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the US strategy in Afro-Eurasia, China’s One Belt One Road global vision of New Silk Road connectivity, and Hybrid Warfare. Visit his blog here. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

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