Fast forward to April 29, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict lasted for 65 days.
According to British media reports, British Defence Secretary Wallace has issued an order that nearly 8,000 British soldiers will be sent to Northern and Eastern Europe to participate in joint military exercises to demonstrate "the unity and strength of European countries".
For the first time since the Cold War, Britain has made such a large-scale military deployment.
In response, the British Army Commander Woodys "proudly" said that the professionalism, training and agility of the British Army "will reach an unprecedented scale in Europe in this century".
Whether this is "bragging" or not, at least one thing is certain: in order to exaggerate the Russian threat and continue to "add firewood" to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, this time it can be said that it is "bloody".
In fact, the joint exercise itself is quite large, with tens of thousands of soldiers coming not only from NATO members, but also from Finland and Sweden – who are now considered "fragrant" by NATO.
Just the day before, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had gone out of his way to say that if Finland and Sweden decided to apply to join NATO, they would be "warmly welcomed" and that any approval process would be "expeditious."
It seems that NATO's co-optation is becoming more and more undisguised, and Finland and Sweden's participation in military exercises seems to be "eyebrow-raising".
At the same time, the German Bundestag passed the motion of "full support for Ukraine" on the 28th, with an "overwhelming majority" of 586 votes in favor, 100 votes against and 7 abstentions, including the requirement that the government "deliver heavy weapons and complex systems to Kiev".
The German Bundestag has formed a "joint force", will the scholz government's turning away?
For Zelenskiy's government, of course, this is good news, and the Ukrainian president's office said for the first time that the vote will be a sign of the "return of German leadership" and thus go down in history.
At the same time, Ukrainian Defense Minister Leznikov also excitedly announced that there has been a "structural change" in Ukraine's relations with NATO and its allies, which will provide "weapons that meet NATO standards" and train ukraine.
All kinds of indications show that the United States and the West are still "adding fuel to the fire" of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine has essentially become an "agent" of the United States, and this war may completely go in an unknown direction.
However, against this background, two major events have taken place within the "anti-Russian" forces, exposing the fact that they are not monolithic.
First, Russia revealed the secret plan of the United States and Poland, which Poland denied for the first time, but quietly launched military exercises.
On the 28th, The head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency, Nareshkin, claimed that he received an intelligence that Poland and the United States were making secret plans to re-establish military and political control in its "historical territory" in Ukraine.
He also said that the initial plan of the United States and Poland is that Poland will deploy a Polish "peacekeeping force" in western Ukraine without bypassing NATO authorization, and gradually seize control of local strategic facilities by Ukrainian forces.
In response to such a statement, the Polish Special Affairs Coordination Department responded that the Russian side's statement is not a new "rumor" and is aimed at undermining Polish-Ukrainian cooperation.
What is true or false? At present, it is not easy to say, after all, the Russian side has not provided relevant evidence, but "the wind is empty, not for no reason", the following 3 facts can not be ignored.
First, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said: "Modern Ukraine was completely created by Russia." The West Warren and Eastern Galicia regions of western Ukraine, which had been the territory of Poland until World War II, were incorporated into the former Soviet Union in 1939 before being handed over to Ukraine.
And as recently as March, officials at the Special Committee on Polish Restitution publicly declared that Ukraine should return the three western oblasts to Poland.
Second, the Polish military issued a notice on the 28th that the military will frequently mobilize equipment across the country from May 1 to prepare for subsequent military exercises. At the same time, the military also asked the public not to take photos and videos at will, so as not to leak national defense secrets such as the movement of troops, the location of facilities, and the level of weapons.
The problem is that this is not the first time that Poland has held military exercises, but it is quite rare for a month like this year to not allow even military convoys on the road to be photographed.
Third, as of now, only the Polish side has responded to this matter, and the other two countries involved, the United States and Ukraine, have invariably not spoken out, which is also not in line with the level of rapid "debunking" by the United States and Ukraine.
Then again, the western part of Ukraine, represented by the city of Lviv, is also a fairly rich and developed region, as the former homeland of Poland, is Warsaw really unmoved?
Just as the so-called "it is better to believe in what it has than not to believe in it", the Zelensky government may have become vigilant.
In the second case, senior british overseas territory officials were arrested, and the perpetrator turned out to be a U.S. government agent.
On the 28th local time, in the Miami airport in Florida, the prime minister of the British Virgin Islands, Andrew Fashi, was arrested by the US police on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Also arrested was Maynard, the general manager of the British Virgin Islands port, who was on a private jet inside the airport to view $700,000 in cash, which was the reward for their "drug shipments."
Regarding this news, there are actually 3 details worth considering.
1, the identity of the arrested person is not ordinary. The British Virgin Islands, as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, is not a sovereign state, but its status as a "tax haven" has been highly valued by the London side, and the Governor-General appointed by the Queen of England acts as a local administrative power.
As the head of the local government, the prime minister is second only to the governor in status, and in the British Virgin Islands, it can be said that "one person is below, above ten thousand people", and the arrest of such a senior regional official in the United States is enough to cause shock.
2, looking at the past, British Virgin Islands Prime Minister Fashi in the entire transaction, the IDENTITy of the US Drug Enforcement Bureau informants and agents who concealed their identity repeatedly "lured" Fahi, such as telling Fahi: "You will not touch anything during the drug transport", so you can rest assured.
Such a means is actually a good trick for the official United States.
Last year, U.S. law enforcement used "fishing enforcement" to accuse an engineer couple suspected of selling classified information on nuclear submarines, who had repeatedly sold secrets to FBI agents posing as foreign government representatives.
3, it was not until after Fahi's arrest that the U.S. government informed the British side of the news, and the Governor of the British Virgin Islands, after learning the news, claimed that it was "shocking news", and apparently the British side did not hear a word of wind beforehand.
But in fact, the US side found "clues" as early as last autumn, but for such a long time it did not seek assistance from the British side and has been investigating alone, is it out of distrust of its allies?
But all in all, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has obscured the contradictions that already exist in the West, and once the seeds of doubt are planted, they are likely to take root and sprout until they break through the ground and cause rifts.