POLAND: Wary Of The New Nord Stream Gas Pipeline.

GLOBAL POST/ By Tom Hundley...GP's New Poland correspondent?/

Polish paranoia rears its head...again. Is it justified?

The construction of a new $11 billion underwater natural gas pipeline called the Nord Stream from Russia’s Siberian gas fields to Germany’s Baltic coast has been labelled “the Molotov-Ribbentrop pipeline,” by Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, referring to the infamous Nazi/Soviet pact to divy-up Poland on the eve of World War II. Says expert Dominik Smyrgala, "If Gazprom were a normal Western company, interested in profits and building customer relations, the situation would not be so drastic, but as we have seen, Gazprom is not this kind of company; it is better understood as a tool of foreign policy for the Russian Federation."