Patryk Wasilewski, in today's Wall Street Journal, outlines another tale of "diplomats" being kicked out of a country for aiding and abetting spying. Yesterday, it was the Germans and today we have a new account in Poland. This time, the cause and effect was the arrest of a Polish "defense ministry official and a civilian detained for spying for Russian military intelligence". You can bet there will be more. Russia seems to have brought this on themselves by continuing to put more troops and support into the Ukraine.
We have to know that this spying has been going on for a lot of years, but Europe has been taking care of those cases without making a fuss. The Germans were quietly removing them, as were others, so it looked like spying was down. Once this starts, it will catch on. It is always better to keep these kinds of things quiet, but once they start becoming public, they take on a life of their own. At least in the Cold War we knew who our enemies were.
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