Russia Seems to Want WWIII

Putin has never made any secret of what he intends to do. Poland shoots down Putin’s drones and warns it’s ‘closer to conflict than at any time since World War II’

Almost from the day the Berlin Wall fell, and certainly since he came to power Vladimir Putin has said that the Soviet Empire should never have been abandoned, and should be rebuilt. His invasions of Georgia, the Crimean peninsula, and lately the rest of Ukraine should have proven that. Now his forces are violating NATO airspace in Poland.

Poland has warned it is closer to conflict than at any point since the Second World War following an unprecedented incursion into Nato territory by Russian drones.

The country’s air defences were scrambled after 19 projectile UAVs entered its airspace during a major attack on western Ukraine, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said.

Poland shot down some of those drones, and it provided photos of at least one. Click thru.

Mr Tusk has invoked Article 4 of the Nato treaty, demanding consultation with its member states.

All the politicians are issuing soundbites, or statements; it is hard to tell them apart today.

Time to make sure the emergency supplies are up to snuff, and maybe order some iodine pills. Your gourmet pink salt is fine and all, but you should be consuming some iodized salt.

And that is the Polish flag above. I'm sure some people will wonder.

Poland Says Inclusivity Must Include Christianity

From Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, a Polish, Catholic legal organization. IKEA Loses in Poland’s Supreme Court: The Policy of Inclusivity Should Not Exclude Christians

Actually what the Polish Supreme Court did was to refuse to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling.

In 2019, IKEA published an article on its company intranet that imposed the ideological demands of the LGBT movement on its employees. In response, Janusz Komenda published a comment criticizing the announcement and included two Bible verses referring to homosexual practices. As a result, store management decided to dismiss him. The consequences extended to those who had “liked” Komenda’s comment.

The regional court ruled in favor of Komenda, requiring IKEA to reinstate him.

Employers must consider that a significant portion of Poles are Christians and have the right to uphold and defend their beliefs.

Hat tip to Vlad Tepes.

I guess it should come as no surprise that Ordo Iuris is described by the Wiki as "ultra-conservative." So the idea of "don't discriminate based on creed" is not a liberal virtue, or maybe I should say "no longer a liberal virtue," since it is baked into every non-discrimination law. Interesting. I guess the rule is be tolerant of the people you agree with, and intolerant of anyone who disagrees.

Poland Is Teaching Kids How to Shoot

Poland is right next to Ukraine. Poland has always been under threat of invasion. (Didn't you study history in school?)

Until three months ago, weapons training was voluntary. Not any more. Now it is mandatory for 13 and 14 year olds. How to assemble and use the weapons. And of course, safety.

This is Colion Noir's video Poland Now Has Mandatory Gun Classes To Teach Young Kids To Shoot AR-15s

Secretary of State Blinken Caught in a Lie

He wasn't prepared for Poland to call him on his lie. Poland Calls Blinken's Bluff, Exposes Fracture in NATO Alliance

The Biden Administration is a joke from top to bottom.

Today, Poland announced it would release “immediately and free of charge” its entire MiG-29 fleet of 28 aircraft to the United States for transfer to Ukraine. The transfers would take place at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

Blinken was trying to blame Poland for a lack of aircraft in Ukraine. Poland wasn't having any of it.

Blinken was basically throwing Poland under the bus. (Someone said "under the Russian tanks.") The Poles were not going to settle for that.

By transferring the planes to the US on a US air base, Poland can wash its hands of the deal. If the US, in turn, hands the planes over to Ukraine and offers Ramstein as a launching pad, Russia’s beef is entirely with the US.

Poland, since the days of Solidarity, has been trying to AVOID a shooting war with Russia; not piss them off.

European allies are surely taking notice and wondering if they should stay in a mutual-defense alliance with a country headed by a lifelong idiot who now has dementia. They’ve met his number two and laughed her off the stage. At what point does NATO tell the US it’s no longer welcome in the club? With the USD potentially losing reserve status, NATO might be better off without our money. Do Germany and Poland think they can wait until the next election while there’s a war raging in their hemisphere?

President Mumbles and Vice President Nervous-cackling are going to pull us into WWIII. And you thought Trump was hard on NATO.