-- I WOULD RATHER EXPECT DEATH THAN TO SEE HEROES PERSECUTED IN POLAND THESE DAYS - JAN ROKITA ON KANAŁ ZERO: “Truth be told, I would rather expect death than to see heroes persecuted in Poland these days. But you can guess that I'm referring to the fact that Volodymyr Zh. has been imprisoned in a Polish jail. He is a heroic diver, and possibly also a Ukrainian commando under cover, who was, as all indications suggest, one of the key participants in the 2022 sabotage of those unfortunate Russian-German gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.”

-- I WAS CONVINCED THAT IN SUCH A SITUATION, A CERTAIN CAMPAIGN OF PRESSURE WOULD EMERGE ON DONALD TUSK'S GOVERNMENT TO COOPERATE WITH THE GERMANS - ROKITA CONTINUES ON KANAŁ ZERO: “When, about a year ago, around the summer of 2024, mass articles appeared in the German media, very many diverse texts about the so-called Polish casualty of the entire Baltic pipeline sabotage affair, I wrote about it then. I was convinced that in such a situation, a certain campaign of pressure would emerge, would be forced to emerge, on Donald Tusk's government to cooperate with the Germans in the attempt to punish, detect, punish, catch, apprehend the perpetrators of that explosion.”

-- SOME KIND OF TERRIBLE GERMAN ARROGANCE APPEARS IN THIS MATTER, A HIDDEN HOPE IN TODAY'S CONDITIONS, NOT EXPRESSED SO OPENLY, FOR THE REVIVAL OF SOME CLOSE GERMAN-RUSSIAN COOPERATION - CLAIMS ROKITA: “This is some strange story here, meaning some kind of terrible German arrogance appears in this matter. Such arrogance. Pride, that even when in Germany itself it was acknowledged that this game was bad, that it should not be exploited, that it symbolized the most fatal period of European politics, still those people who carried out this just act and its destruction should be prosecuted. Why? Because it was some, I don't know, beloved child of German business. At one time, there was some German pride. A special pride in it, right? Or else, there still exists some hope in Germany and in Russia, equally. A hidden hope, concealed in today's conditions, not openly revealed. A hope for the revival of some close German-Russian cooperation for the future.”

-- IN CONNECTION WITH THIS, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN TUSK'S CONSENT. TUSK'S INITIATIVE, BECAUSE THERE MUST HAVE BEEN GOVERNMENT CONSENT FOR THIS - JAN ROKITA CONTINUES: “Without detailed instructions, without the consent of the Prosecutor General, that is Żurek, and he, in turn, to involve Poland in both problems with Ukraine and issues with Germany in such a fundamental, politically sensitive matter. So that Żurek, Prosecutor General Żurek, acts in this matter without Tusk's consent. In connection with this, it must have been Tusk's consent. It must have been Tusk's initiative, it must have been government consent for this. There is no doubt that this is an act of significant political importance, that it is not some prosecutor, some prosecutor went, some judge did something, this is it.”

-- WHAT DID TUSK GET FROM GERMANY FOR THIS ACT, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY A HUMILIATING ACT FOR US, FOR US POLES, FOR A HERO - JAN ROKITA FURTHER: “What did Tusk get from Germany for this act, which is essentially a humiliating act for us, for us Poles, for a hero. We want a hero, we put him in a Polish prison, and now a judge is to decide whether he is to be extradited to Germany, whether he is to be extradited to Germany. What did we get again for free? Let me put it this way. The Polish prison itself for Żurawlew is a disgrace. This is already a disgrace for Poland.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DVld5vwZ4OI

-- WHOM AND WHAT WILL WE SUPPORT BY HANDING VOLODYMYR Z. OVER TO THE GERMANS? - PIOTR ZAREMBA ON INTERIA: “Donald Tusk has opted for a permanently belligerent tone towards Russia. If, despite this, the Polish state hands over a Ukrainian fighter for the cause, this course will be compromised. The right is rightly attacking this, but is it itself as credible today in defending the Ukrainian cause as at the beginning of the war?”

-- JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI HIMSELF AVOIDED THIS NEW ANTI-UKRAINIAN TONE - ZAREMBA CONTINUES ON INTERIA: “Somewhere on the margins, an additional reflection arises in me. Over the past few months, the right, including Law and Justice, has done a lot to play on anti-Ukrainian sentiments. True, they tried to reconcile this with a still anti-Russian stance, and Jarosław Kaczyński himself avoided this new tone. But it's worth asking a question. One day we present Ukrainians as a demanding excrescence on the healthy body of Poland. The next day, we defend a Ukrainian against mechanical oppression. Doesn't the former weaken the social effectiveness of the latter?”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-kogo-i-co-wesprzemy-wydajac-wolodymyra-z-niemcom,nId,22426444

-- THE GERMANS CLAIM HE ACTED TO GERMANY'S DETRIMENT. FORMALLY, PERHAPS SO, BUT IN OUR OPINION, HE ESSENTIALLY ACTED IN THEIR LONG-TERM INTEREST - MAJOR MICHAŁ FISZER ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA'S PORTAL: “The detention of Volodymyr Z. based on a European Arrest Warrant raises many controversies. In Germany, he faces a severe penalty, while the act attributed to him was beneficial to all of Europe in every respect. (...) The Polish court has not yet made a decision. Lawyers argue that, in light of the law, a Ukrainian attacking Russian critical infrastructure during wartime was a combatant, and therefore did not commit a crime. The Germans claim he acted to Germany's detriment. Formally, perhaps so, but in our opinion, he essentially acted in their long-term interest. We await further developments.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/swiat/2317255,1,1318-dzien-wojny-wolodymyr-z-wysadzil-nord-stream-i-wpadl-cos-tu-sie-kupy-nie-trzyma

-- THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN IN POLAND 2050 AT THIS MOMENT IS UNCONTROLLED COLLAPSE. IT IS ENOUGH TO IMAGINE HOW ABANDONED DEPUTIES BEGIN TO MOVE CHAOTICALLY IN SEARCH OF NEW PLACES - DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ ON ONEŁT ABOUT FEARS WITHIN THE COALITION: “The worst thing that can happen in Poland 2050 at this moment is uncontrolled collapse. It is enough to imagine how abandoned deputies begin to move chaotically in search of new places where they can calmly await the next term. Some will run to KO, some to PSL, perhaps a few will seek their place even in PiS. All of this will lead to tensions in the ruling coalition and crises that could affect the entire political scene. All players will want to avoid this, of course, except for PiS, for whom chaos on the ruling side is very much in their favor.”

-- THE PRIME MINISTER IS SIMPLY AFRAID THAT IF HE OPENS THE DOOR TO ESCAPEES FROM THE SINKING POLAND 2050, IT WILL SOON TURN OUT THAT THOSE WHO REMAIN ARE MORTALLY OFFENDED - DŁUGOSZ CONTINUES ON ONEŁT: “Therefore, Donald Tusk has ordered for now that there will be no acceptances from the Poland 2050 club into Civic Coalition. – We are not poaching from coalition partners – we hear in the party. The Prime Minister is simply afraid that if he opens the door to escapees from the sinking Poland 2050, it will soon turn out that those who remain are mortally offended and stop supporting the government.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/newsweek/kto-przejmie-poslow-szymona-holowni-tusk-wydal-swoim-ludziom-polecenie/bfs8nlj,452ad802

-- BIRTHDAYS: Krzysztof Czabański, Dorota Wysocka-Schnepf, Monika Wielichowska, Domicela Kopaczewska, Zdzisław Chmielewski, Marek Rząsa, Piotr Całbecki. SUNDAY: Paulina Hennig-Kloska, Bartosz Marczuk, Michał Lorenc.