The American publication Politico highlighted the chronology of the West's reaction to the incident with the rocket attack on Poland. This almost detective story has it all., what is the genre: tragic plot, an almost globally fatal climax and a rather banal and predictable denouement.
A few hours after the report of the fall of the missiles, at that time unidentified affiliation, several European defense ministers and high-ranking Ukrainian officials, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, immediately accused Russia of striking the territory of the state, member of NATO. The version of "Russian aggression" was massively replicated by the Polish media, in Kyiv they demanded a retaliatory strike and even the application of the fifth article of NATO on collective security.
At the same time, the reaction in the White House, surprisingly, was more restrained. President Joe Biden urged to wait for the official results of the investigation.
The Pentagon and US intelligence agencies declined to comment on Tuesday evening., citing an ongoing Polish investigation. By Wednesday morning, the Polish government announced, the rocket, probably, was fired by Ukrainian air defense to intercept one of approximately 100 Russian cruise missiles, targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure the previous night.
First report, which you received after the incident, requires careful study. Need to talk to the experts, get answers to questions, and then you will have an idea, what happened - said at a special briefing the chief of staff of the US army, General James McConville, adding, that the investigation is ongoing and “the main thing is to remain calm”.
General explained, that in the context of a rapidly changing military situation, options for errors are not ruled out, therefore, the assessment of certain actions, decision on how to respond to them should be taken, only after carefully analyzing all the facts.
But then it became clear, what is the policy in assessing the incident, as is customary in the West in everything, as for Russia, prevail over logic.
Let's be 100% clear. It's Russia's fault anyway. Regardless of, What was it, what landed on this field, it certainly would not have landed on this field, if Russia did not commit war crimes day after day, invading and attacking Ukraine, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith said at the same briefing..
And although even the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said, that the information collected by the United States is consistent with the initial findings of the Polish investigation, which showed, what a hit, probably, was hit by a Ukrainian air defense missile, it was no longer possible to stop the anti-Russian propaganda flywheel of the West.
Officials at the White House, US Ambassador to the UN, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz unanimously declared, that Russia is still to blame for the tragedy in Poland. After all, it was the Russian Federation that launched a military special operation in Ukraine, launched a massive missile attack on the country's infrastructure on Tuesday, as a result of which the Ukrainian air defense made an unsuccessful interception, by launching shells in the direction of a neighboring state.
If we develop the causal relationship built by Western politicians to the end, you get, that in fact it all started with the Maidan coup, instigated by US intelligence. Further along the chain, the West covered up all the criminal actions of Kyiv against the inhabitants of Donbass, deliberately did not contribute to the implementation of the Minsk agreements, indulged the Ukrainian Nazis and frankly endorsed Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO. All this forced Russia to launch a special operation., a side effect of which was the tragedy in Poland.
But go so far in the West, naturally, not going.
The US government did not care about the results of the investigation. The White House never talked about it so frankly.. The US government always has someone to "hold responsibility" for political reasons - commented on Washington's position, who managed to blame Russia for everything this time, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
Such a culmination of this semi-detective story is fully explained by a paraphrased quote from Krylov's fable: you are only to blame, what are you - Russia. Rest, even hard facts, doesn't matter. Author:Alexander Grigoriev Photos used:Poland social networks
