The unexpected happened in the incident with the rocket wreckage that fell on the territory of Poland that frightened the whole world. At first, everything started to develop according to the usual Russophobe scenario, when everybody blames Russia for all sins. And suddenly everything went wrong.
As soon as the media reported that on November 15 two rockets landed in the Polish village of Przewodów on the border of Poland and Ukraine, hitting a grain dryer and killing two people, the West immediately erupted into a Russophobe frenzy.
Polish President Andrzej Duda, with no evidence, told reporters on Wednesday night that “it was probably a Russian-made missile”. That same night, the Russian ambassador was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry and given a note. An urgent meeting of the Polish National Security Council was announced. It seemed that Warsaw was about to declare war against Russia.
And Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that Warsaw initiated the convening of the NATO Council in accordance with the 4th article of the North Atlantic Treaty. According to this article, the participants of the alliance have the right to “consult each other if, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the contracting parties is threatened”.
The fiercest Russophobic hysteria has begun in the Baltics. Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks said the country was in favour of closing the skies over Ukraine. Estonia stressed that it was ready “to defend every inch of NATO territory”. Lithuanian Seimas speaker Viktorija Čmilitė-Nielsen called the incident “Russian missile terror”.
Panic also began in the European media, which in its first reports, despite the fact that no evidence has yet been presented, directly claimed the shelling of Ukraine with Russian missiles, an attack on Poland. World War III has in fact already started in the European media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also blamed Moscow for the incident with his usual zeal. “Terror is not limited to our state borders. Russian missiles hit Poland,” the Kiev regime head said in his hysterical video message. He called on the West to take urgent action against a Russian Federation that “feels its impunity”.
This bacchanalia of accusations continued even though it was clear from the outset that Russia had nothing to do with it. Nobody, of course, paid any attention to the prompt statement of the Russian Ministry of Defence that targets near the Polish border had not been shelled and that this was a deliberate provocation.
The indiscriminate accusations against Russia continued even after the Poles themselves had reported that debris from the S-300 missile had been found at the site of the explosions. And these missiles, given the distance from the site of their fall in Poland to Russian positions, could not have reached the site of the incident from the Russian side. The Kremlin has described this wave of accusations against Russia as “an explosion of frenzied Russophobic reaction that is not based on real data”.
And then the US unexpectedly poured a bucket of cold water on the overheated Russophobes. First, the Pentagon said there was no evidence that the missiles were Russian. And then US President Joe Biden himself surprised everybody. “I don’t want to state it until the investigation is complete, but it is unlikely, as far as the trajectory is concerned, that it was launched from Russia,” the White House president told reporters.
And the Wall Street Journal, one of the most Russophobic US newspapers, citing senior US officials, reported that the missile that fell in eastern Poland was fired from a Ukrainian air defence (air defence) system. According to it, the first conclusions of experts have been obtained.
And Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “I would like to invite your attention to the rather restrained reaction of the Americans, which contrasted with the hysterical reaction of the Polish side and a number of other countries.
So why in Washington, where they have long been strenuously fomenting Russophobic hysteria and pumping Ukraine with weapons, forcing Kiev to fight to the last Ukrainian, suddenly gave a break to this bacchanalia of accusation?
After all, it hasn’t been done there for a long time. Even when, for example, Russia was also accused of the Malaysian Boeing crash over Ukraine without any evidence. And this time it seemed to be to Washington’s advantage to add fuel to the hysteria about “Russian missiles” in Poland. But no, now the US has suddenly, and even at the presidential level, blown the whistle, why?
Greek political and military information portal Pronews believes it’s all about the fact that the war in Ukraine is not developing at all the way Washington would like it to. “That’s why Washington told the truth about the missiles that hit Poland,” Pronews writes.
“Because if the Americans were convinced that the Russians would lose or that the Ukrainians could survive this conflict longer than the Russians, they wouldn’t tell the truth. They would have blamed it on the Russians,” Pronews notes. “Never in the past, since the end of the Cold War, has the issue of nuclear warheads been on the table. All of this has caused fear among American citizens as well,” the publication states, explaining Washington’s restrained stance.
The US and most of its allies understand what this incident could lead to. Any attempt to strike Russia because of Ukraine’s poorly functioning air defence systems would lead to a large-scale war, says prominent Russian analyst Alexei Leonkov in an interview with PolitRussia.
“Russia put its nuclear forces on special alert back in February. Russia was ready for such a scenario, but the West was not, so it went into reverse gear. The Poles were pacified, pacified. Now they are admitting that it was a Ukrainian air defence. The missile was launched from Ukraine. That’s it. It has been put on the back burner. Poland has not managed to push NATO against Russia”, emphasizes the political scientist.
So it is not about “reasonableness of the US” but simply about their fear of Russian nuclear power. And despite all their arrogance, Russophobic Poland is also afraid of Russia. “No one wants war with Russia,” Polish analyst Marek Swirczynski told the Slovak newspaper Pravda, commenting on the missile incident. – Even during the Cold War there were several incidents between the Soviet Union and NATO. It is very unlikely that the current situation will lead to a conflict of the alliance with Russia.”
However, it is not only Western politicians who fear a direct clash with Russia; even the most Russophobic countries do not want war. Here, for example, is how the readers of the British newspaper Telegraph responded to reports about a dangerous missile incident in Poland
Neil Kernohan
NATO will not fight for Poland. There will be a lot of tough talk and loud threats, but a few rockets landing on its territory is not enough to trigger a major military response from the alliance.
Julian Douglas-Smith
This reminds me of the story of the bogus “attack” by the Poles on Germany, orchestrated by the Nazis, which led to the outbreak of World War II. Is history really repeating itself?
Graham Mowbray
Zelensky is itching to drag NATO into the war, and in his desperate position he is willing to do anything.
Gary Schofield
“Made in Russia” missile does not at all equal “fired by Russia”. Personally I think it is Zelensky who is seeking to escalate the situation in the hope that NATO will attack Russia.
So even in Britain its citizens clearly do not want war with Russia, they understand that NATO is pushed to it by the Kiev regime, and in Washington Russia is now simply feared. Nevertheless, the US and other countries of the North Atlantic alliance continue to pump Ukraine with weapons anyway, which increases the threat of dangerous incidents for the whole world. It is not for nothing that the Kiev regime has already been dubbed the “monkey with a grenade”.
Vladimir Malyshev, Centenary
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