Poland might participate in these exercises in order to send a strong anti-Russian signal, but the extent to which it might pivot towards France and away from the US will depend in large part on the outcome of its upcoming presidential election.
The highlight of this exercise should be when Macron jumps out of a perfectly good airplane with a parachute over Moscow. He should be allowed to carry an AK-47 with one magazine loaded with cherry seeds, a peanut butter sandwich and a box of coca cola (original flavor).
Maybe the best response from Russia for such events is no response. If anything, get someone in the top national leadership circle to remind Russian people about foreign invasions in history during a press conference or something. No need to show that to Western news media.
Thanks for another interesting article, although I’m not entirely sure exactly how you conclude that France ‘hung Poland out to dry’ in WW2.
Czechoslovakia was perhaps hung out in that manner, but once Germany had dealt with the Czechs, with Poland taking a bite from the carcass, Poland was indefensible, and thus a lost cause.
The Poles, who have always considered their country to be the navel of Europe, if not of the entire world, would doubtless view things differently.
I forget the exact statistic, but France had x-amount more of troops on the border than the Germans had, and it was revealed after the war (again, forgot the exact detail) that they could have steamrolled into Germany if they threw everything they had at it.
The Germans weren't prepared for a major two-front war and couldn't have withstood a blitzkrieg inside their own western borders. France hung Poland out to dry, in my opinion at least, as part of a failed (British-orchestrated) ploy to push the Nazis and Soviets into war over Poland.
The Zaolzie issue also isn't as simple as you casually described it.
The territory was disputed immediately after WWI because of its largely Polish native population. The Czechs then forcefully took control over it as the Poles were fighting the Bolsheviks, which some Poles therefore consider a stab in the back.
They therefore took it back after Munich independently of what was agreed there without its input since Poland didn't participate in those talks nor secretly collude with the Nazis, it just opportunistically exploited the situation.
It made sense too from the state's perspective: then was a time of high nationalism all throughout Europe, and there was finally a chance to right this historical wrong and have those Poles live in Poland, not in what would otherwise be Nazis Germany.
The notion that Poland was indefensible after that is factually false since the Brits and French both offered it security guarantees that neither fulfilled, hence why many Poles also believe that those two also stabbed Poland in the back too.
Again, it later came out (I don't have the details in front of me but I've read it a lot before and confirmed the veracity of the info some time ago) that the Germans wouldn't have been able to withstand an all-out western war in September 1939.
As for your remark about Poles viewing their country as the "navel of Europe", well, it practically was for centuries during the Commonwealth period when that polity was at one time the largest on the continent and stretched from sea to sea.
In fact, it was precisely because of its geostrategic location that it was later partitioned by all three neighboring empires, which coordinated that three-phased move among themselves to avoid the security dilemma and resultant risk of war just like the Nazis and Soviets did for a similar reason ~150 yr. later:
Can we really trust the results of Poland’s elections? Should the “wrong” party win the EU would most likely come in and cancel the results. Poland isn’t Romania but Breton said it would be done in Germany and basically threw up his hands declaring it’s not his law but his offices law that makes this decision. Until the liberal globalists are expunged from the EU I’m not sure any election would be safe from having its results scrubbed if the wrong candidates happen to win. Which would create a further distancing of the US for sure. NATO is an outdated alliance that the US is trying to distance itself from. Europe needs to stop taxing US goods the way it does too if it has any prayer to keep NATO alive. Many story lines here that need watching.
The clinically insane leading the chronically stupid.
...but, which is which?
The highlight of this exercise should be when Macron jumps out of a perfectly good airplane with a parachute over Moscow. He should be allowed to carry an AK-47 with one magazine loaded with cherry seeds, a peanut butter sandwich and a box of coca cola (original flavor).
Maybe the best response from Russia for such events is no response. If anything, get someone in the top national leadership circle to remind Russian people about foreign invasions in history during a press conference or something. No need to show that to Western news media.
Thanks for another interesting article, although I’m not entirely sure exactly how you conclude that France ‘hung Poland out to dry’ in WW2.
Czechoslovakia was perhaps hung out in that manner, but once Germany had dealt with the Czechs, with Poland taking a bite from the carcass, Poland was indefensible, and thus a lost cause.
The Poles, who have always considered their country to be the navel of Europe, if not of the entire world, would doubtless view things differently.
I forget the exact statistic, but France had x-amount more of troops on the border than the Germans had, and it was revealed after the war (again, forgot the exact detail) that they could have steamrolled into Germany if they threw everything they had at it.
The Germans weren't prepared for a major two-front war and couldn't have withstood a blitzkrieg inside their own western borders. France hung Poland out to dry, in my opinion at least, as part of a failed (British-orchestrated) ploy to push the Nazis and Soviets into war over Poland.
The Zaolzie issue also isn't as simple as you casually described it.
The territory was disputed immediately after WWI because of its largely Polish native population. The Czechs then forcefully took control over it as the Poles were fighting the Bolsheviks, which some Poles therefore consider a stab in the back.
They therefore took it back after Munich independently of what was agreed there without its input since Poland didn't participate in those talks nor secretly collude with the Nazis, it just opportunistically exploited the situation.
It made sense too from the state's perspective: then was a time of high nationalism all throughout Europe, and there was finally a chance to right this historical wrong and have those Poles live in Poland, not in what would otherwise be Nazis Germany.
The notion that Poland was indefensible after that is factually false since the Brits and French both offered it security guarantees that neither fulfilled, hence why many Poles also believe that those two also stabbed Poland in the back too.
Again, it later came out (I don't have the details in front of me but I've read it a lot before and confirmed the veracity of the info some time ago) that the Germans wouldn't have been able to withstand an all-out western war in September 1939.
As for your remark about Poles viewing their country as the "navel of Europe", well, it practically was for centuries during the Commonwealth period when that polity was at one time the largest on the continent and stretched from sea to sea.
In fact, it was precisely because of its geostrategic location that it was later partitioned by all three neighboring empires, which coordinated that three-phased move among themselves to avoid the security dilemma and resultant risk of war just like the Nazis and Soviets did for a similar reason ~150 yr. later:
https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-molotov-ribbentrop-pact-was-a
I'd also like to mention that after the third partition, Russia ended up with:
* more elites/nobles of Polish culture than of Russian culture
* more people literate in Polish than in Russian
* Wilno University became the largest university in the Empire
* and the looted Zaluski library became the basis for the Imperial Public Library
These facts prove Poland's cultural centrality in the region at the time.
Can we really trust the results of Poland’s elections? Should the “wrong” party win the EU would most likely come in and cancel the results. Poland isn’t Romania but Breton said it would be done in Germany and basically threw up his hands declaring it’s not his law but his offices law that makes this decision. Until the liberal globalists are expunged from the EU I’m not sure any election would be safe from having its results scrubbed if the wrong candidates happen to win. Which would create a further distancing of the US for sure. NATO is an outdated alliance that the US is trying to distance itself from. Europe needs to stop taxing US goods the way it does too if it has any prayer to keep NATO alive. Many story lines here that need watching.
"Can we really trust the results of Poland’s elections?"
It doesn't matter what the electoral process was, as long as the winner is able to take power and have their orders obeyed.