Polish Defense Minister: Russia's aggression against Ukraine is a 'clash of civilizations'
Poland’s Minister of National Defense, Antoni Macierewicz, believes that Russia's aggression towards Ukraine, terrorism and the migration crisis are all elements of a clash of civilizations.
According to Interia news agency, he said this addressing the participants of an international conference in Washington.
The news agency reported that Macierewicz has not ruled out the possibility that Moscow supports the Islamic terrorists’ plans to destabilize the West.
He stressed that the “collision of Ukraine’s pro-Western aspirations with Russia’s gross intervention is a clash of civilizations”.
Macierewicz also added that the West should ask itself a question: “whether Russia is supporting, and is in fact the creator of, the radical Islamic terrorism?” “The answer to this question may be crucial to the survival of our civilization”, he said.
In his report, Macierewicz also stated that the growing body of evidence points to the fact that “the Russian version of the causes of the crash near Smolensk is not true”.
He has suggested that “the disaster in Smolensk was part of a long process, from the war in Georgia until Ukraine’s invasion”.