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Are you alright there, Vladimir? Ukrainian leader hysterically accuses the notoriously Russophobic Polish of helping Moscow
Ukraine and Poland’s relationship has apparently reached the throwing toys out of the pram phase. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Vladimir Zelensky said it was “alarming to see how some in Europe… are helping set the stage for a Moscow actor.” Who could he have been talking about?
“I hope these words are not addressed to Poland,” replied a Polish government spokesman. If you have to ask yourself the question, you probably already know the answer. Yep, Zelensky is accusing Poland of cheating – with Russia. This is about as realistic as accusing Johnny Depp of a dalliance with Amber Heard – post-divorce and defamation trial.
Toxic Divorce?
It seems like just yesterday that Poland was bullying its fellow European Union member states to cough up gifts of weapons for Zelensky. Back in May, it managed to get Denmark and Finland on board with sending their German Leopard tanks to Kiev and browbeat Berlin for dragging its feet on giving permission to re-export the vehicles.
“Even if, eventually, we do not get this permission, we – within this small coalition – even if Germany is not in this coalition, we will hand over our tanks, together with the others, to Ukraine,”declared Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the time.
Fast forward to this week.
“We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,“ Morawiecki said.
In other words, Warsaw has decided that it needs to focus on itself. Isn’t that what every exasperated partner says after spending time on a therapist’s couch and coming to their senses?
Last week, Poland withdrew – along with Hungary and Slovakia – from the EU’s platform to coordinate Ukrainian grain imports. Sources claimed that the countries feared that details from any such involvement could be used against them in a lawsuit that Kiev filed earlier this week.
This was at the World Trade Organization in response to them maintaining their bans on Ukrainian grain imports despite Brussels’ decision to lift them on September 15.
Thus, Poland has gone from loudly proclaiming its love for Kiev to suddenly acting like a party to a potentially messy divorce, now taking self-preservation measures against a toxic partner.
One who keeps making demands even when you say “no.” And that’s exactly what these countries did by insisting that Ukraine’s grain be banned lest it compete with their own farmers’ produce, driving its value down – and not even a month before the next Polish parliamentary election on October 15.
Instead of trying to see the situation from these countries’ perspectives, Kiev blew a gasket. “The systemic approach of Budapest and Warsaw of ignoring the position of the EU institutions in trade policy, I think that will be a problem for the EU in general because there is no unity there,”said Taras Kachka, a trade representative. Kiev is acting like it can’t understand why Brussels is backing the three while it keeps stringing Ukraine along with promises of commitment.
It’s because they’re in a binding relationship with the EU. By contrast, you’re a side piece hoping for a ring and using toxic tactics to try to manipulate everyone into getting whatever you want all the time.
The gloves have really come off now, though, with Ukraine daring to suggest that the EU isn’t united. That threatens to ruin the main theme of unelected European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s virtue signaling.
Kiev is now doubling down on the psycho-ex vibe by threatening that unless the unilateral bans on grain are lifted, it will go after Polish apples and onions and Hungarian cars with retaliatory restrictions.
(Why do bad breakups always have to target innocent cars – whether it’s keying/scratching, smashing, or blocking?) Poland has since pushed back in a tit-for-tat.
“I warn the Ukrainian authorities because if they escalate this conflict in this way, we will add more products to the ban on import into the territory of the Republic of Poland,” Prime Minister Morawiecki said on Wednesday.
Where’s the EU in all of this, you might ask? Brussels is currently busy ducking criticism from its own member states for lifting the ban on Ukrainian grain, with Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy underscoring, in the wake of a meeting of the bloc’s agriculture ministers, that von der Leyen consulted on this topic not with the leaders of member states, but with the Ukrainian president.
He has also suggested that the EU was selling out its farmers in favor of Saudi, American, and Dutch investments in Ukrainian grain production. Not that this would be the first time that the EU screwed over itself and its people to benefit American interests, using Ukraine as a pretext.
Just ask the millions of European citizens currently struggling to pay for the bloc’s decision to replace cheap Russian energy with much pricier liquified natural gas from the US.
Poland has led the way in defying Queen Ursula, with the payoff being that it isn’t having to contend with the kind of protests that Bulgarian officials are now facing, having complied with Brussels’ lifting of the grain ban.
Bulgarian farmers blocked highways and border crossings earlier this week. At least so far, it seems that Brussels really doesn’t want to get too deeply involved in the crossfire as Poland and Ukraine throw their tantrums.
Kiev did suddenly acknowledge “close and constructive ties” with Warsaw on Thursday, after a phone call between their agriculture ministers and “agreed to work out an option to cooperate on export issues in near future.” Sounds like someone’s suddenly concerned what the neighbors might think and making an effort to keep up appearances.
A few minutes later they were identified by the police Activists have sprayed red liquid on the stern of the luxury megayacht anchored in the Port of Barcelona
The superyacht of the Walmart family is once again the object of protest, this time in the port of Barcelona.
In the early hours of this Friday, two activists of Rebellion or Extinction and Scientific Rebellion have stained the stern of this luxurious boat with biodegradable red paint and have deployed a banner that could read “Billionaires should not exist ” (“Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist”).
As explained to El Salto, with this protest the activists want to make visible and denounce the responsibility that billionaires have for the climate crisis.
The non-violent protest has passed peacefully. The activists have bypassed the security of the port and have approached their target, where they have acted using two fire extinguishers loaded with this red liquid. It wasn’t until a few moments later that precinct security showed up, who held them until the police arrived on the scene and identified them.
🛳Según han explicado a El Salto, con esta protesta los activistas quieren visibilizar y denunciar la responsabilidad que los multimillonarios tienen sobre la crisis climática.
“This year we have experienced the highest temperatures in the history of mankind and instead of reducing emissions, we continue to emit trillions of tons of CO₂”, complains one of the activists during the protest, while noting that the people most responsible for this situation is the one that hoards the most wealth in the world.
The target ship of the protest, ironically named Kaos and equipped with all kinds of luxuries, is owned by Nancy Walton, daughter and heir to the billion-dollar fortune of the American supermarket chain Walmart
The target ship of the protest, ironically named Kaos, equipped with a helipad in the bow, a spa, a swimming pool and all kinds of luxuries, is owned by Nancy Walton, the daughter and heiress of the billionaire fortune of the American supermarket chain Walmart .
The company was founded by his father, Sam Walton, and today occupies one of the first places in the lists of companies with the highest revenues, as well as having a market capitalization of 429 billion dollars.
Nancy Walton bought this 110-meter-long yacht in 2019 from the Qatari royal family for the amount of 280 million euros. The yacht was already in the spotlight of another activist group last July, when members of Futur Vegetal sprayed it with paint in a similar way when it was docked in Ibiza.
Colored dye thrown on protests delaying the start of elite billionaire summit – The District – in Barcelona
Some activists threw the product at attendees of the investment fund summit, which started an hour late. The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested a journalist on charges of public disorder
An executive who has been smeared with colored powder when approaching the venue | Angel Garcia
The video shows use of a ‘paint filled fire extinguisher’ to decorate the 800 euro-per-night hotel
After the action against the Intercontinental hotel due to its link with The District, today around 200 people gathered at half past nine in the morning at the exit of the Europa Fira de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat railway station.
When they managed to overcome a police cordon, the mobilization made its way to the fences that surround the compound.
Brave activists have thrown colored powder at those attending The District |Àngel Garcia
It was nine in the morning and there were still 45 minutes to go before the start of the second edition of a real estate summit attended by 1,200 investors from the likes of Blackstone, Blackrock or Azora – the founders of which have been awarded.
Four vans from the ARRO Metropolitana Sud of the Mossos d’Esquadra shielded the Fair from the gates of the site and five vans from the Mobile Brigade did it from the street.
Despite trying to find a crack in the police armor, unlike last year, the activists have not been able to access the interior. As participants and visitors were arriving, the slides started. Dressed in frogs and masks, some activists threw colored powder at them and shouted: “speculators”.
Among the people dyed in blue, they paraded Jordi Moix, manager of Talus Real Estate and LinQventure, as well as economic vice-president on the Barça board of Josep Maria Bartomeu; o Anna Hernández Bonancia, director of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Economic Development Agency and wife of former president José Montilla (PSC).
While a real estate entrepreneur has begun to dialogue, there has been another who has thrown an activist into a pool of water and a third has kicked a girl. The police were escorting an assistant to the entrance, when an accredited journalist from La Mosca TV had a small encounter with an officer and another anti-riot officer jumped on top of her and pinned her to the ground, causing her a face injury.
While she was being taken inside the injured compound to be treated by an ambulance, there was a police charge. The South Metropolitan Police Region of the Mossos d’Esquadra has confirmed to Directa that there is a person arrested at the Hospitalet de Llobregat police station, accused of public disorder, but did not want to specify if it was the journalist.
However, those close to the victim have been able to speak with her, confirming that she is in police custody. She was finally released at quarter past ten in the evening.
La Mosca TV journalist after the tackle of a Mossos agent |Àngel Garcia
Momento de la intervención policial en las puertas de The District en Barcelona, cargando y reteniendo a una fotógrafa. Vídeo de @pericopin_ para El Salto.
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