Poland is in the throes of its own Russiagate scandal, and just like its inspiration across the Atlantic in America, this one is also nothing but a politicized witch hunt.
I have seen US Democratic Party talking points parroted by many European politicians on a daily basis for several years now. They utter them here in the US first, then days or weeks or sometimes months later I hear US Empire vassals in Europe saying the exact same things as if they're new revelations.
In the US, the Russian interference line was thoroughly debunked by our now-dominant alternative and independent media YEARS ago, yet here it is alive and well in Europe, often enforced by censorship against dissent more effective than that tried in the US, but at least there's a good reason for that.
It's called the First Amendment. Russians should try it some time. You'd like it, and be an even better country for it. Your oligarchs won't, but who cares?
"one of the reasons why Ukraine didn’t give up during the first overwhelming phase of Russia’s special operation is because Poland swiftly intervened to support it."
With "friends" like Poland you don't need any enemies, obviously. Signing that peace agreement in April and NOT betting on prolonged armed resistance would have been the far superior choice for Ukraine and Ukrainians. The blood of hundreds of thousands (probably way over a million now) of dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers is on the hands of Zelensky and his Polish "ally".
Not happening. Not only would Ukraine be giving up the homeland of its most fervent nationalists, Poland would be getting millions of fractious, well-armed Ukrainains, who are not only not Polish by any stretch of the imagination, but who also have committed genocide against Poles well within living memory.
I don't know a Polish family that didn't suffer as a result of Ukrainian nationalists during and immediately following WWII.
If so, then Poland would not want to take over Galicia as part of the end-game for this war. And Russia cannot afford to have a rump state representing the current Ukraine while maintaining control over Galicia. I hope the next flare-up would take some significant delay.
Poland has been very consistent in sticking to their doctrine of not laying any claims to its eastern and northern territories lost after WW2 and I do not see that changing anytime soon. Regardless of the ruling party, for 30+ years, they have consistently emphasized that Lviv is Ukrainian, Vilnius is Lithuanian, Grodna is Belarusian and so on, to the point of basically abandoning Polish minorities to fight their own fight for survival in the aforementioned countries. The issue of Galicia is not in the media, it's not in the everyday discourse, your average Pole does not think of these lands as Polish anymore, despite some of them having been central to the Polish statehood and culture in the past. This is very different to, say, Hungary's approach to the pre-Trianon territories.
Besides, what would Poland do with several million Galicians? There's already a significant potential for inter-ethnic strife after Poland took in so many Ukrainian refugees and workers. I don't think it would want the most anti-Polish part of Ukraine to top it off.
The point is to goad the Polish leadership into further aid to Ukraine.
As to what form of aid would be acceptable to the russophobes, and whether or not Rzeczkowski is acting on orders, is left as an exercise to the reader.
I have seen US Democratic Party talking points parroted by many European politicians on a daily basis for several years now. They utter them here in the US first, then days or weeks or sometimes months later I hear US Empire vassals in Europe saying the exact same things as if they're new revelations.
In the US, the Russian interference line was thoroughly debunked by our now-dominant alternative and independent media YEARS ago, yet here it is alive and well in Europe, often enforced by censorship against dissent more effective than that tried in the US, but at least there's a good reason for that.
It's called the First Amendment. Russians should try it some time. You'd like it, and be an even better country for it. Your oligarchs won't, but who cares?
"one of the reasons why Ukraine didn’t give up during the first overwhelming phase of Russia’s special operation is because Poland swiftly intervened to support it."
With "friends" like Poland you don't need any enemies, obviously. Signing that peace agreement in April and NOT betting on prolonged armed resistance would have been the far superior choice for Ukraine and Ukrainians. The blood of hundreds of thousands (probably way over a million now) of dead and wounded Ukrainian soldiers is on the hands of Zelensky and his Polish "ally".
Maybe there was a deal that if Ukraine gets Donbas, Galicia would be returned to Poland.
Not happening. Not only would Ukraine be giving up the homeland of its most fervent nationalists, Poland would be getting millions of fractious, well-armed Ukrainains, who are not only not Polish by any stretch of the imagination, but who also have committed genocide against Poles well within living memory.
I don't know a Polish family that didn't suffer as a result of Ukrainian nationalists during and immediately following WWII.
If so, then Poland would not want to take over Galicia as part of the end-game for this war. And Russia cannot afford to have a rump state representing the current Ukraine while maintaining control over Galicia. I hope the next flare-up would take some significant delay.
Poland has been very consistent in sticking to their doctrine of not laying any claims to its eastern and northern territories lost after WW2 and I do not see that changing anytime soon. Regardless of the ruling party, for 30+ years, they have consistently emphasized that Lviv is Ukrainian, Vilnius is Lithuanian, Grodna is Belarusian and so on, to the point of basically abandoning Polish minorities to fight their own fight for survival in the aforementioned countries. The issue of Galicia is not in the media, it's not in the everyday discourse, your average Pole does not think of these lands as Polish anymore, despite some of them having been central to the Polish statehood and culture in the past. This is very different to, say, Hungary's approach to the pre-Trianon territories.
Besides, what would Poland do with several million Galicians? There's already a significant potential for inter-ethnic strife after Poland took in so many Ukrainian refugees and workers. I don't think it would want the most anti-Polish part of Ukraine to top it off.
Thank you. An excellent observation.
The point is to goad the Polish leadership into further aid to Ukraine.
As to what form of aid would be acceptable to the russophobes, and whether or not Rzeczkowski is acting on orders, is left as an exercise to the reader.