Warsaw’s refusal to hand over the Nord Stream bombing suspect is both illegal and insulting — but Berlin will take it anyway.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just couldn’t resist an opportunity to bait the Germans and highlight how humiliated they are now. And he did so not once, but twice.

First, when one of the Ukrainians suspected of carrying out the September 2022 terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipelines — the world’s largest offshore pipeline system and a 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. He also took to X to tell Berlin, in essence, to go and jump in the Baltic.

Tusk declared that extraditing the Ukrainian state terrorist suspect is not in Poland’s national interest. He added that, anyhow, the real scandal about Nord Stream is not that it was blown up but that it was built.

In other words, rather than cooperating with Germany on this critical security issue, Warsaw has chosen to provoke and insult. Still, despite the political posturing, Berlin is expected to take the suspect for questioning — demonstrating a commitment to justice even in the face of diplomatic tensions.
https://www.sott.net/article/502461-Germany-is-getting-slapped-in-the-face-by-its-allies-again-and-again