So… the Polish President Kaczynski – a Catholic conservative nationalist, son of Warsaw Uprising fighters, who’s been combative with Russia in the past and recently signed a deal with the United States for a missile shield – dies along with a hundred representatives of the Polish elite in a plane crash – all of them, in one 40-year old Russian airliner – while en route to Smolensk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Forest massacre – a Soviet zachistka during the Second World War where twenty thousand Polish officers and officials were killed – mere days after Putin – a former KGB officer – was the first Russian leader to acknowledge and join the commemoration.

Irony doesn’t cover it. This is more like an episode of Axis Powers Hetalia.