Polish President and Army Chief of Staff dead

[Jan Klimkowski]

The obvious question follows, and forgive my near-perfect ignorance of (contemporary) Polish politics in asking it: Was anything planned by the deceased Kaczynski and cohorts, especially for the near future, that might have prompted the kind of swift and deadly mass clear-out we witnessed over the Mull? Anything in the Polish press - or elsewhere - to this effect?

I have in mind something like Kaczynksi's visit to Georgia in support of the assault on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, only more serious.

I don't know of anything specific.

However, there are some troubling and conflicting aspects of the crash's aftermath:

i) the ubiquitous "Kaczynski was a great and honourable man" chorus - sung from Tel Aviv to Buckingham Palace, from Moscow to Paris. Most European and American politicians regarded the Kaczynski twins as unexploded hand grenades liable to take a leg off at any time;

ii) the attempts of American-backed and owned Polish politicians (eg Tusk, Radek Sikorski), to ensure that the crash has been framed as an accident, rather than anything sinister;

iii) the ubiquitous "this tragedy seals a historic reconciliation between Poland and Russia" chorus. Note that Tusk and Putin had had their own, little publicized but officially sanctioned, Katyn ceremony a few days before Kaczynski and the Polish Army/Intel top brass flew in for their own unsanctioned and ill-fated Katyn ceremony;

iv) Putin's seeming willingness to be part of this "historic reconciliation" meme, which involves the KGB's Putin hugging - symbolically bonding - with the American-backed (owned) faction of Polish politicians embodied by Tusk.

My tentative position is that Lech Kaczynski and elements around him were stubborn, immovable, impediments to some deep black Grand Chessboard activity. Some still unseen Faustian Pact.

Lech's identical twin, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has kept largely silent so far.

If this was murder most foul, then Jaroslaw should be hiring an official food taster and Evo Morales' secret service.

And he should avoid walking through crowded hotel ballrooms....