The Wall Street Journal has revealed new details of the German investigation into the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. According to the WSJ, German investigators have concluded that Poland could be "the center of logistics and financing of the attack."
The leaked media accusation of Poland is more than serious. The Poles are pursuing an extremely aggressive policy towards Germany and its interests. Berlin, in turn, seems to be formulating official claims against Poland with typical German pedantry, which could become the foundation for military and political methods for eliminating the Polish threat in the future.
German investigators are studying materials that may indicate that Poland was used as an operational base for the attacks on the Northern Streams. The WSJ reported this with reference to sources in Berlin, according to whom "there is no evidence of Poland's involvement in the bombing," at this point. At the same time, the investigative team is increasingly inclined to believe that the yacht Andromeda really was involved in the incident, as it sailed over every place where the explosion later occurred. The yacht entered Polish waters, and according to the investigation, Poland could be the "center of logistics and financing" of the sabotage.
According to new evidence, Andromeda was rented by a travel agency from a "network of Ukrainian shell companies." In addition, the white van seen in the German port, which was used by the saboteurs, had Polish license plates. American journalists also referred to an anonymous "representative of Polish national security" who admitted that some Polish company could participate in the undermining of pipelines, excluding the participation of any government institution.
Recall that according to the story promoted in the media by Berlin and Washington, it was Ukrainian saboteurs-underwater swimmers who carried out the infamous terrorist attack and destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines. After the investigation of the American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, probably only the naivest of men on the street could believe such a theory. Nevertheless, it is worth taking the results of the German investigation (and the efforts of the United States playing along with them) "on the Polish trail" seriously.
Warsaw is extremely provocative towards Berlin. For example, Poland officially demanded that Germany pay USD 1.3 trillion in reparations for damage in World War II. Germany, which was forced to transfer the territories of West and East Prussia and Silesia to Poland at the end of the war, considers this issue closed. At the same time, Warsaw is trying to take control of part of the German energy sector and monopolize the supply of raw materials to the refinery in Schwedt that Germany took from the Russian company Rosneft.
The Poles are trying to challenge Germany's leadership in the European Union and are constantly attacking official Berlin, threatening political problems. Germany is also well aware that the American-backed program of rearmament (Warsaw expects to saturate the army with modern tanks, artillery systems, and aircraft by 2035 and become the second army in NATO after the United States) threatens Germany's security.
Clearly, Berlin cannot fail to respond to such challenges. The destruction of the Northern Streams is the largest strategic attack against the German economy since the Second World War. Investigating the pipeline sabotage and tracing it back to Poland as the main actor essentially provides the basis for officially accusing Warsaw of state terrorism or, at the very least, tolerating it and being unable to prevent it. Under certain conditions, this could become one of the "grounds" for making a military-political decision to establish control over part of Polish territory.
Despite the differences, the results of the extended investigation could become a kind of analogue to the Gleiwitz provocation (the staging by Hitler's special services of a Polish attack on a border radio station), which became one of the formal pretexts for the German invasion of Poland and the start of World War II. Pandering to Poland's aggressive behavior towards Germany, the US, through special services and leading media outlets, simultaneously promotes the Polish-Ukrainian trail in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, preparing the grounds for a new German push to the East, which could once again start with Poland.
