...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...publicly humiliated on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine) claimed that the Polish authorities are planning to take control of Ukraine. Russia has made these charges before but Naryshkin now claimed that the assessments were backed by trustworthy sources.
"There are reports that Washington and Warsaw are developing plans to establish strong military and political control of Poland over 'its historical possessions' in Ukraine" Naryshkin said.
According to the SVR, the plan will develop as follows: Poland will deploy troops in Western Ukraine claiming that these forces will be tasked with defense against Russian aggression. Poland would be acting outside NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
but would assemble a coalition of the "willing states" under the pretext of "defending against Russian aggression" Naryshkin divulged that Poland intends to act without a NATO mandate, but in concert with the "willing states." To further its designs for controlling the Ukraine, the SVR alleges that the Polish special services have been searching for representatives of the Ukrainian elite "capable of compromise", in order to form a "democratic" counterweight to the nationalists oriented towards Warsaw.
Russia cited the previous proposal of Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Jarosław Kaczyński, to Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky to deploy an armed NATO peacekeeping mission to Ukraine as a prelude to the takeover.
Naryshkin also claimed that if the scheme hatched in Washington and Warsaw reached fruition, the result would be the partition of Ukraine. The idea of a Greater Poland that would absorb parts of Ukraine had historical antecedents. At the end of the First World War, the victorious "Entente" powers sought to increase Poland's boundaries to weaken and contain Soviet Russia. Today, the collective West headed by the United States was using Poland in the same way.
