Disillusion In Warsaw, Infighting In DC?

Even the Polish government seems to be looking for an exit ramp from the war on Russia. A Polish general has said that Russian forces are fighting well. Polish President Duda, in a recent interview, while calling for huge new weapons shipments to Ukraine, suggested that Russia “could” win—if Ukraine doesn’t get a massive infusion of advanced weaponry. Oh, but Poland won’t be sending much if anything along those lines. Perhaps the Poles are getting the message that Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova delivered in response to Duda’s interview:

“The only way out for the West is to repent for what it has done,” Maria Zakharowa, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, wrote on her Telegram channel, angrily reacting to the interviews conducted by the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda. , gave. to foreign media. The Polish president appealed to Western leaders for further, stronger support for a struggling Ukraine, warning Vladimir Putin that “sooner or later everything will turn out badly for him”.

Or maybe it’s disillusionment that Warsaw is finally recognizing that they’re never going to be equal partners in the collective West?

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Poland did not get access to Russian money - Warsaw is disappointed with the draft of the tenth package of sanctions In an interview with radio station RMF FM, Poland's ambassador to the EU, Andrzej Sadosz, said that Warsaw expected the introduction of tougher containment… https://t.co/Wky8f7RtWF

My advice to Poland: Be careful what you wish for.

Today The Duran discusses this subtle change in Polish rhetoric, but more interestingly they get into an extended discussion—although the video is a relatively brief 32 minutes—of the fallout in DC from the Hersh revelations about America’s terror attack on the Nordstream 2 pipeline.

Alexander Mercouris stresses two major points—among others.

First, confirmation of what everyone knew is having a devastating effect on world opinion of the Zhou regime. As the Russians have said, is there anything this regime will not do? This follows, recall, the confiscation of Russian financial assets, which are now—at least in part—being dished out to favored recipients (not Poland). It’s all a very bad look.

Second, look at the timing. The Hersh revelations follow hard on the heels of the classified docs story, the CSIS report (we’re running out of “stuff”), and the Rand report (for God’s sake, negotiate already!). This all falls within the time frame that Hersh would have needed to put his article together, thus giving the appearance of coordination.

The State Department continues to push the Neocon line, but it seems ever more apparent that powerful voices in the DC power elite are pressing for an end to the madness. Overall, it’s a stimulating discussion: