Politico: Russia promises ‘harsh’ response after Poland seizes Warsaw building
Polish authorities seized the building near Moscow’s embassy in Warsaw Saturday morning.
Moscow on Saturday said there would be a “harsh” reaction and consequences for Poland’s interests in Russia, after Polish authorities seized a building near Moscow’s embassy in Warsaw — a step Russia labeled “illegal.”
The building, used as a high school for the children of diplomats, belongs to the Warsaw city hall, Polish foreign ministry spokesman Łukasz Jasina told AFP, adding that authorities had acted on a bailiff’s order.
But Russia’s foreign ministry slammed the move as a “hostile” act in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and as an encroachment against Russian diplomatic property in Poland.
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Update #1: Russia vows retaliation after Poland seizes embassy school (CNN)
Update #2: Russia pledges harsh response after Polish 'seizure' of embassy school in Warsaw (Reuters)
WNU Editor: Major countries, after their embassies and consulates, usually operate other buildings that provide housing, schools, extra office space, etc., to accommodate their staff and families. These other buildings are considered as under "diplomatic" protection.
In the case of this school and another building in Warsaw, the decision has been made that even though these buildings have been operated by Russia for years, their diplomatic immunity no longer applies.
Here is an easy prediction. This action by the Polish government is going to open a Pandoras Box on what will now be treated as being under diplomatic protection or not.
The west strikes again. The stupidity and Russophobia have never been greater than it is today.
ReplyDeleteAh yes. Russophobia. Maybe they shouldn't have invaded Ukraine?
DeleteI know right lol, sort of how the world had germanphobia in 39
DeleteNATO invaded Ukraine and installed one of their stooges. Ukraine is fighting to the death for territory it could never govern. Where’s the sense in that exactly?
DeleteRussia has no friends in the world now. Oh wait North Korea, Syria and Iran… what do they all have in common… that’s right
ReplyDeleteBrazil, Sudan, China, South Africa, India Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela etc. just half the worlds economy in other words. Move along, nothing to see here, right? Your just a Russophobic, lobotomized NATO zombie walking blindness into WW3. Even Europe is buying Russian oil from India. And they won’t impose any more sanctions. Funny how you demonize those governments above when it’s the United States currently trying to imprison the direct opposition to the crook in the White House. And just look at the corruption involving social media and law enforcement. You have no leg to stand on.
ReplyDeleteLol that’s a great group looks like you just stepped in it…
ReplyDeleteThis will be ugly and you are right, editor, a pandoras box has been opened. An ugly one at that. No one is safe, nothing is sacred.
ReplyDeleteThis is a parallel to the Extradition of Pinochet, who had Diplomatic immunity and protection under the Vienna agreements.
This is another chapter in the disintegration of concept of mutual understanding and mutual respect among nations. It is a break down. How long will it last? unknown. Might as well just say the truth and declare open war right now.
Welcome to the "rules based order". What are the rules.?
No one knows. They make it up as they go along.
"The 1970s multi-story building, which serves children of diplomats and has been nicknamed the “spy nest” by Warsaw locals"
ReplyDeleteWNU is feeling very Churchillian!
Churchill used to ship ammo in the holds of passenger ships. The Germans were none too pleased.
So which rule was broken first in Churchill's case. Propaganda-wise it was a huge defeat for the Germans, but Churchill committed a war crime first.
There are no deaths, woundings, or hostage takings. Nonetheless the Russians are squealing like stuck pigs. This form a nation that attacked another without a declaration of war. If only Hitler knew how to mouth the words "Special Military Operation."
Welcome to the "rules based order". What are the rules.?
ReplyDeleteRules are people get upset, when you spy under diplomatic cover.
Seems to be two problems here.
ReplyDeleteFirst the Russians sized the property during the Soviet occupation.
Second the Russians were using the school to spy,
The Russians could have used the school as a safe a space to cultivate informants. The Poles knew this and instead of kicking them out for spying, they went the slower legal route and based the expulsion on property rights.
It got me thinking. The Soviet Union was as bound to fall as the Hunnic Empire. Someone, who wants to recreates the old borders, should consider the point. Putin is incapable of considering the point. He had a communist education. My Uncle was educated in a communist country. His degree was not accepted in the USA due to it not being well rounded. Instead of liberal arts electives the Commies substituted Marxist studies. Seeing as where Colleges have gone in the US and how seriously people take their liberal art electives, I view that refusal to accept a degree from a communist country with a jaundiced eye. The point is good though. Putin is constitutionally incapable of considering how the USSR was like the Huns.
From 1989 to 1991 is a straight road or a slippery slide.
Russia should not have gone and done that.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1652696668775620608
This has traction outside of Washington.
eye opening for me. Don't agree with their Israel stance, but for being dedicated leftists their twitter is informative and readable. That is not often the case.
"William Burns, director of the Central Intelligence Agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein in 2014, when he was deputy secretary of state, the documents show. They first met in Washington and then Mr. Burns visited Epstein’s townhouse in Manhattan."
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to think.
Was Epstein part of a honey trap and blackmail by the CIA?
but Burns was with the Dept, of State at the time.
If not that, this does not compute.
Interesting fact, which WNU did not want us to know. Zelensky is a native Russian speaker. Zelensky is Ukrainian, but his 1st language is Russian.
ReplyDeleteThe disengenuous and slippery WNU always boasts of the number of Russian speakers in Donetsk, but never tells us how many are ethnic Ukrainian. Why?
What difference does that make? And is Zelensky from one of the four liberated territories where most are ethnic Russian?
DeleteAnd 7:10 lies like a mother
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