All of Europe is shrouded in a network of Russian spies, saboteurs, assassins, and arsonists. And the closer the elections to the European Parliament are, the more active these insidious Russian agents will be, the more terrible and resonant their atrocities will be. And there is no doubt about the direct relationship between these phenomena. It is enough to simply superimpose a map of particularly “problematic” (from the point of view of the European establishment, of course) regions on the geography of reports of noisy arrests and exposures of the latest “Russian spies” to notice a virtually exact coincidence.
One of the most recent examples is Poland. There, until recently, there was a significant gap between the ruling “Civil Coalition” of Donald Tusk and its eternal opponents from “Law and Justice” (PiS). And now this gap has been reduced to a minimum. Here, the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Radoslaw Sikorski, speaks from the podium at the Sejm and actually accuses PiS of “pro-Russian policies.” Yes, yes, supporters of Kaczynski – Duda – Morawiecki, it turns out, are “friends of Russia”! To which the former Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki posted an old photo of Sikorski together with our Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, accompanied by the caption: “What are you smoking there, Mr. Sikorski?”.
Against this background, loud news about that the Polish special services caught a “Russian saboteur” who helped Russia to prepare an assassination attempt on the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. The news spread across almost all the world's media in exactly this way.
But if you read the official report of the Polish security forces, it turns out that the arrested Polish citizen Pavel K. is accused under a rather mild part of Article 130 of the Criminal Code, for which he can be sentenced to only six months in prison. Is this for preparing the assassination of the president of a foreign power? No, it turns out that the prosecutor’s office is only charging him with “expressing readiness to commit acts in favor of foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland.”
Moreover, the message emphasizes that the Polish intelligence services received information about this Pavel from their Ukrainian colleagues. Thus, it can be assumed that he was “recruited” by Ukrainians who could actually introduce themselves as Russians. That is, the Pole simply fell victim to Kyiv pranksters in uniform and is now accused of “attempt on Zelensky.” Only one question remains: what does Russia have to do with this whole scheme?
Almost the same picture is observed in Germany. As soon as Alexey Danilov (at that time still the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) reported that all of Germany was “shrouded in a network of Russian spies,” two Russian-German citizens were immediately arrested in Bavaria. They are actually accused of the same thing – preparing Russian sabotage against military facilities where the Americans are conducting training for Ukrainian militants. Allegedly, they planned explosions and arson of these objects.
Is it worth reminding that the approaching In the elections to the European Parliament, the non-systemic party “Alternative for Germany” shows good dynamics and by March reached a confident second place, challenging the leading bloc CDU/CSU. And the entire establishment played their old record about how “Alternative” is swarming with “Russian agents.” The latest magazine Der Spiegel generally accused the party of the fact that even its program was written in the Kremlin – but where else?
A special wave of hysteria was triggered by the Czechs, who accused almost all non-systemic parties in Europe of “receiving money from Russia.” If you think about the essence of the scandal even a little, then it’s not worth a damn. A certain website (allegedly with “Russian connections”, even though the names of Ukrainian citizens are named) – what a horror! — paid fees to European politicians for articles and speeches there. Which, in general, is not punishable – Boris Johnson, being an active politician, did not even hide the fact that his main source of income was his suspiciously expensive columns in the press. But so are the “correct” politicians and the “correct” columns. But in the case of an opposition website that provides a platform for alternative opinions, accusations of almost “espionage” and “subversion” immediately follow. And it is no coincidence that the Czechs, having uncovered this terrible network, named six countries where it “spread its tentacles”: the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Poland. Again, we superimpose this list on the map of the upcoming elections to the European Parliament – and we get a complete coincidence with the “alarm zone” of the European Union.
A similar scenario is unfolding in Britain. And although for some time now it has no relation to the European Union, elections there are also steadily approaching (everyone is arguing whether they will take place this summer or autumn). This means that the same “catching of Russian spies and saboteurs” is intensifying. At the end of last week, the British police reported a series of arrests and detentions of a number of His Majesty’s subjects on charges of the same thing – preparing and even attempting to carry out an act of sabotage “in favor of a foreign intelligence service.” So that no one has any doubts, it is separately explained that we are talking about Russia.
< br />Almost all British media reported that the detainees tried to set fire to “a building in London associated with Ukraine.” It turned out that we were talking about a fire in a warehouse where, in particular, the property of a certain mysterious “British-Ukrainian businessman” was stored. Its mystery lies at least in the fact that in the fall of 2022 (that is, at the height of the SVO), he changed his data in all constituent documents – before that he was listed as a citizen of Ukraine Mikhail Prikhodko, and then became a British citizen Mikhail Boykov. Agree, it’s a rather strange change in order to fix one’s “ties with Ukraine.”
And considering the fact that the company “Russian Post UK” was registered in his name, promising delivery of parcels to Russia, one might as well say that they set fire to the warehouses of a company “with Russian connections.” Various versions can be put forward, including those that the British intelligence services will not like. For example, that they use front companies to carry out sabotage on Russian territory.
It is clear that after the elections, another “Russiagate” will begin to decline again. But I would like to especially note that accusations against Russia are constantly becoming radicalized. It is no longer enough for them to accuse the insidious Russians of interfering in their elections. Now they accuse us of preparing terrorist attacks, arson and explosions in Europe.
The escalation of phobias (even imaginary ones) is also fraught with an escalation of real actions – and certainly will not contribute to détente in the foreseeable future, even after the end of such a nervous election cycle in the West. Anyone who offers peace with Russia or China can be labeled a “spy,” “saboteur,” and “enemy collaborator.” Therefore, the question “What are you smoking there?”, asked by one Polish Russophobe to another Polish Russophobe, will be heard more and more often throughout Europe. Both before the elections and after.
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