Yesterday, despite his illness, Prime Minister Tusk made a statement to the media in the gardens of his Chancellery, which was mainly dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of our membership of the European Union. But this Christmas declaration, as usual in Tusk’s speeches, also included attacks on Law and Justice, including a bizarre accusation of being pro-Russian. Tusk warned in the upcoming European Parliament elections against, as he put it, “staring at Putin”, and thus in fact against himself and many leading Platform politicians, which was shown in detail by the authors of the multi-episode existing version. film “Reset” by Prof. Cenckiewicz and editor Rachoń, as well as editor Tulicki, author of the film “Our Man in Warsaw”.
Reset policy – Tusk’s own move
The hard facts presented in both films show that Tusk’s reset policy with Russia was not a policy imposed by the West (USA, Germany), as is commonly believed, but that it was Tusk and his team was. It started when George was still ruling the United States. Bush (who was not in favor of a reset with this country) was also so profound in every area that even Russia was surprised by some of the proposals from Poland. As early as February 2008, just three months after taking office as prime minister, Tusk visited Moscow and made far-reaching proposals for cooperation, which he boasted about in the media.
However, the main evidence that this was the case was the 2009 gas crisis and the processing of the gas deal with Russia until the intervention of the European Commission in February 2010, which decided that binding a contract with Russia was prohibited for up to 27 years . impossible from the point of view of European law. Tusk said in the Sejm: “we want dialogue with Russia as it is”, and his ministers were ready to make far-reaching concessions to Russia, which even surprised the Russian side. This was the case with the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Russian FSB and the Military Counterintelligence Service, or with the Polish side’s agreement not to use the term genocide against Polish officers in connection with the Russian crime in Katyn, but only the term ‘ war crime’ (the PO-PSL majority in the Sejm even adopted a resolution containing such much ‘lighter’ wording in September 2009).
Report of the Supreme Court of Audit
A document that shows the extent to which politicians and officials of Tusk’s government were willing to make concessions to Russia is the audit report of the Supreme Court of Audit on energy relations with Russia. The NIK report for the period 2006-2011, drawn up during the presidency of Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, from the Platform, was secret material for the coming years. Let us remind you that this report was released only in 2018, and then it became clear how harmful the decisions of the Tusk government on widely understood energy issues in Poland-Russia relations were for our country.
The then Polish government, during the negotiations in 2008-2010, made, among other things, a kind of “gift” to Russia’s Gazprom in the amount of PLN 1 billion, waiving the outstanding fees for the transit of Russian gas through the Yamal pipeline . to Western European countries. Moreover, he agreed to the loss of profits from the transit of Russian gas through Poland (specifically limiting it to only PLN 21 million per year), netting Gazprom an additional PLN 1.5 billion. He also gave up power in Europol Gaza – the company in charge of the Yamal gas pipeline – without a fight, and consolidated dependence on Russia with a long-term gas contract, ultimately until 2022 (i.e. for 12 years, not 27 as previously proposed). It also suspended activities to diversify gas supplies to Poland (the construction of the gas port in Świnoujście was postponed; it only started in March 2011 and was therefore partially commissioned at the end of 2015, instead of in 2013). also once again removed from the construction of the Baltic Pipe. Moreover, according to the report of the Supreme Court of Audit, the gas negotiations with Russia at that time were conducted without any instructions approved by the Council of Ministers, from a completely “capitulated” position, and consequently during the negotiations the question of changing the price formula was raised included in the contract was therefore not even increased, leading to Poland paying one of the highest prices in Europe for Russian gas (after a trial initiated and won by the PiS government, Gazprom spent about 6 years ago billion PLN returned to PGNIG). later due to inflated gas prices).
Tusk shamelessly warns against ‘staring at Putin’
The scale of the gas concessions that Tusk’s government made to Russia was downright terrifying, but the improvement in relations also brought about things that the Russians had not expected. The proposal to sign a cooperation agreement between the SKW and the FSB in a situation where Poland had been a member of NATO since 1999 and Russia was treated as its opponent even then, or the fact that Poland withdrew because of what happened in Katyn had happened to call a genocide, and only a war crime, were precisely such movements. And now Tusk, without any shame, warns against “those who stare at Putin”, that is, in fact against himself and other leading politicians of the Platform, who intensively implemented the reset policy with Russia in all areas in 2008-2015, and Together with Putin, they made sure that, as the then Prime Minister put it, “nobody threw sand in the gears.”
Source: wPolityce