Ministerial meeting "2 + 2" between Poland and Britain
!London and Warsaw prepare to face Moscow and Berlin
Warsaw and London have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of defense, security and information in a direction that observers believe is aimed at Russia and Germany.
The British-British diplomatic and security understanding was cemented during talks between British Foreign and Defense Ministers Boris Johnson and Geoffen Williamson with their Polish counterparts Yatek Chabotovbetsch and Mariusz Plachak in Warsaw on Thursday.
It seems that rapprochement with Britain is an important element in a strategy through which Poland seeks to become an influential regional power. Warsaw's offers to embrace British and American military forces and bases are not the result of its fears of the Russian threat, Will translate into their country's political status as a central state in Eastern Europe, which will mediate between the countries of the former Soviet Union, led by Ukraine and the West.
Similar positions east and west
The convergence of the priorities of foreign politicians in Warsaw and London facilitates the strengthening of cooperation. The two capitals agree on the need to address what they call "the campaign of disinformation of Russian media." The countries also showed similar responses to all diplomatic crises starting from the events of Ukraine 2014 and the poisoning of the former spy Sergey Scrippal in Britain Last March.
On the west, London faces strong pressure from Berlin and Paris over economic and financial differences in the negotiations over Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, while Warsaw does not raise any demands for the British in this regard.
On the other hand, when Poland was criticized by the European Union, which considered its constitutional reforms to strengthen executive power at the expense of the judiciary and fuel authoritarian tendencies, British Prime Minister Teresa Mae said she did not share this Brussels position and described what was happening in Poland as an "internal affair."
In addition, the Polish-crystallized alliance is based on the concerns of the past. The Poles did not forget the crimes committed by the German Nazis against them during the Second World War and the revitalization of Berlin's political ambitions under Chancellor Angela Merkel brings back to their memory historic historical fears about the deployment of American and British forces Their land to relieve them.
Risks to Russia
Observers believe that the combined efforts of Warsaw and London could damage the interests of Russia on two axes. The first is the issue of the "Northern Torch-2" pipeline to pump gas from Russia to northern Europe, which Poland strongly opposes. This is supported by London, in exchange for Berlin's interest in achieving this. The project.
The second axis is Russia's relations with NATO, whose leaders have recently been calling Moscow for the need to improve bilateral relations. Poland and Britain reject this approach and may try at the NATO summit next month to dump the final statement of any signs of normalization.
Source: Novosti
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