Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk tweeted the following on Saturday: “To all the initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet.” This followed the Wall Street Journal’s latest report about how Germany suspects that Ukraine and Poland were to blame for September 2022’s bombing. Former German spymaster August Henning also shared his opinion that Zelensky and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda reached an “arrangement” on this.
It was explained in spring 2023 when this narrative first emerged that “The US’ Latest Disinfo Campaign About The Nord Stream Terrorist Attacks Was Preplanned” as a red herring to deflect from credible accusations of American complicity in case they ever arose. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh had just cited unnamed administration sources back then to put forward his case that the US was responsible so the timing suggests an attempt to completely reshape the narrative about this attack.
To explain, it’s possible that some of this story is true such as the details about former Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny overseeing a Zelensky-approved plot to bomb these pipelines with Poland’s tacit approval, but that doesn’t mean that they were successful. The US might have let some of this intrigue play out in order for there to be a trail that could later be expediently exposed for the abovementioned reason. Putin accused US intelligence of being behind this attack and hasn’t changed his view on this.
It’s within this context that Tusk’s scandalous tweet should be interpreted. Coming right after the Wall Street Journal’s latest report and Henning’s allegation, it seemed to many that he was being overly defensive, thus inadvertently hinting that there might be some truth to their claims. At the same time, Poland has always opposed the Nord Stream pipelines since it considered them part of a modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, so it’s not surprising that Tusk wants their initiators and patrons to apologize.
His demand that they keep quiet is obviously suspicious since it lends credence to speculation that Poland played a role in their destruction, but it could also be that Tusk doesn’t want his country’s name being dragged in the mud either. He’s been accused by opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski of literally being a “German agent”, the perception of which was reinforced by his hardcore pro-Germany policy that was elaborated on here, so sticking up for Poland could be an attempt to push back against that.
The unprecedented post-election partisanship that’s plagued Poland since last fall predisposes Tusk to lay the blame for the Nord Stream attacks on his conservative-nationalist predecessors’ lap, yet he eschewed that politically convenient tactic despite it being in his interests to do so. This observation coupled with his open Germanophilia suggests that no evidence veritably exists tying them to what happened otherwise he wouldn’t have missed the opportunity to discredit them and please his masters.
Some might speculate that he’s being pressured by members of his country’s permanent military, intelligence, and/or diplomatic bureaucracies (“deep state”) to cover everything up for the “greater good” of Poland’s national interests, yet that doesn’t make sense if one actually thinks about it. Whatever they could possibly do to him afterwards as punishment for “spilling the beans” would only further prove his predecessors’ guilt from the perspective of the Western liberal–globalist elite.
They despise those who came before him and passionately supported his return to the premiership on the false pretext that he was a “democrat opposing dictatorship” so they’d love nothing more than if their “golden child” shared proof of his political opponents’ involvement in this attack. Their reputation would be ruined if it was proven that they helped attack a fellow NATO member, thus reducing the chances that they’d ever come back to power and reverse everything that German-backed Tusk is doing.
His liberal-globalist coalition could theoretically rule indefinitely if they waged lawfare against their opponents on this basis, which is why it’s difficult to believe that he wouldn’t share such evidence or at least obliquely hint at its existence after the latest developments if there was any truth to this. Accordingly, Tusk inadvertently circumstantiated Putin’s accusation that US intelligence was behind this attack, thus discrediting the Western media’s narrative that it was a joint Polish-Ukrainian operation.
