Ladies, Gentleman, That Techicolor Rainbow in between. May I have your attention please!?
It has come to my attention that recently Poland seeks to expel 45 known Russian Intelligence agents in their country, who have posed as diplomats and are using diplomatic immunity to prevent their expulsion. Naturally the solution would be to call their home country and have them revoked, but since Putin himself is the one that sent them, it's easier said than done.
When I saw this on CP24 something struck me.
Back in WWII, much of why the Cold War Started was because Russia under Stalin at the time refused to let go of the areas that were freed of the Nazis. Which in turn became the extension of The Soviet Union.
Here are the list of countries that were part of it:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Luckily Poland wasn't one of them, but it was called by both sides a Sattelite, being that close to the union, but not part of it. Looking at it from Google Maps I saw this:
Poland is literally a 15 hour drive to the Ukraine. Not only that but it's surrounded by many countries formerly of the Soviet Union. If the Sattelite was able to find 45 Russian Intelligence agents in Poland. All of them with credentials that literally keep them from getting kicked out or going to jail, then who knows how many are in the surrounding countries. All of them surrounding the Ukraine. That's how they've been getting ahead in the war. They've been watching at it from all angles. All this time, they've been watching. The intelligence agents spying on one side and telling the army on the otherside where and when to strike. It doesn't even require the internet for it. Just a simple telescope and radio.
I urge each and every citizen of Poland, as well as the surrounding countries to contact your respective governments and contact the UN. The latter of which can be reached here: https://www.un.org/en/contact-us-0
This stops now.
Pingu
Diplomatic immunity doesn't prevent someone from being removed from the country. They would be declared Persona Non Grata, which revokes that immunity and looms arrest if they don't leave by a certain time. Most countries have known and declared personnel at their embassies who do overt collection, its not new or urgent needing people to go contact the UN. Also "Ukraine", not "the Ukraine" please stop de legitimizing a sovereign nation. "the Ukraine" implies its a region a part of something else (Russian ownership), like "the Donbas Region of Ukraine" (Donestsk Basin, Eastern Ukraine oblasts). And yes, many of the former USSR states are either part of NATO (like Poland), or in a pact with Russia (the CTSO, like Belarus).
CIEIRMusic
Considering that Russia has pretty much destroyed a lot of the country during it's take over "The Ukraine" sounds appropriate. I use it as a wake up call to alert people of what's coming. If he takes over they may as well change the name back to it. If it sounds inappropriate, I apologize, but if it gets people to get off their asses and fight back, so that no one can say it again, then all the better for it. Notice how all my tags say "Pro-Ukraine" and not "Pro-The-Ukraine"? If they want to stay legit, then they have to realize what's coming if they can't. Those lucky to still be alive should they take over fully will have to get used to calling it "The Ukraine" again.
That being said, the only way you can revoke diplomatic status is to either make the home country revoke it, which Putin will say no and make anyone else in charge of that shit do the same, go to The UN because it's a world issue and they can go literally go over the heads of whoever they want in an emergency situation (It was literally formed to prevent shit like WWII from happening ever again by any means necessary.) or kill the spies. You're not immune if you're dead. However that spells out bad news, because Putin could easily twist it and say, "These horrible Poles killed 45 of our peaceful diplomats and you call me a monster for Ukraine?"
While Poland and the other NATO Parts are loyal to NATO that doesn't mean the focus should entirely be on the Russian pact though. They already found 45 spies that we know of. There is a reason why they called it Russian Intelligence. There could be more that aren't as obvious as the "Diplomats". They are skilled infiltrators. In fact that's why it's so damn clever they picked Poland as a spy spot, because they could literally see Ukraine from there as well as picking a country people least suspect them to be doing anything war related. The Russian pact ones might have them too, but they're too obvious. The fact that they found them in a place they didn't take over, a place that's already had so much bad shit happen to them already that you'd have to be a real serious asshole in order to do anything war related to it. Putin is that serious of an asshole. Had Poland not spot them, they would have been next.