His rhetoric is very powerful and was completely unexpected from most observers, but that’s because Western and Russian ones alike don’t understand contemporary Poland all that well.
Poles' aversion to military solutions determines political rhetoric. Let's pray that we will see Ukraine's reconstruction for cleansed (forced to emigrate) Ukrainians, not Israel2.0 colonists from all over the world.
Once the foreign funding dries up it’s unlikely that Ukraine will be an especially lucrative market for anyone, so I hope the Poles aren’t getting too excited about their prospects in that department.
This was a long march by USA/NATO toward the Russian borders that was ultimately stopped by the presence of Russian nukes, titanium framed subs and a developing military there. Ukraine wasted three long decades after 1991 and was unable to step up to industrial developments, laying low in corruption, a logical easy victim for intervention from all directions. Now everybody is searching for a way to walk away from the disaster they took two decades to manufacture with Frau Merkel, Sleepy Joe, Macron, UK, the US military industrial complex and Trudeau on the frontlines. It is already painful for them and the pain just keeps growing.
Do none of the European nations ever look at things from Russia's point of view? Were they to do so they would know that the idea of NATO "peacekeepers" in Ukraine is for Russia a complete non-starter and would stop wasting their time arguing about the details of same.
The most influential Polish strategic think-tank, Strategy&Future, with enormous readership and viewership in Poland, which has been rather Washington-leaning for many years, has publicly concluded a few months ago that Poland lost its once-a-century chance of restoring a powerful alliance of nations between Germany and Russia due to Washington being completely unwilling to commit to such a project when it still had a chance in the first part of this war. To the surprise of many, they basically stated that the only reasonable strategy for the foreseeable future is to do everything to avoid the war, and if war comes nonetheless, to conserve human lives and human capital so that Poland could meaningfully participate in the new reality that will emerge a few decades from now when a new international order is established.
I think the greatest influence on Polands decision being that they have realised that the US will not support a foray into the Ukraine, which has made them somewhat verbally brazen in the past.
As we have barely begun reconstruction talk, this is particularly significant. I have seen a few mentions of "companies" going in to do this, but almost complete silence on where the money will come from.
"The last point is especially relevant ahead of May’s presidential election that the ruling liberal-globalist coalition wants to win in order to replace the outgoing (and very imperfect) conservative president with one of their own so as to remove this major legal obstacle to their plans for transforming Polish society."
Money quote here. WWIII over the literal direct biological and ideological descendants of the very people who so gleefully murdered your grandparents is not likely to win friends and influence voters.
Of course, the "peacekeepers" being the trip wire for WWIII is entirely intentional.
Poles' aversion to military solutions determines political rhetoric. Let's pray that we will see Ukraine's reconstruction for cleansed (forced to emigrate) Ukrainians, not Israel2.0 colonists from all over the world.
Once the foreign funding dries up it’s unlikely that Ukraine will be an especially lucrative market for anyone, so I hope the Poles aren’t getting too excited about their prospects in that department.
This was a long march by USA/NATO toward the Russian borders that was ultimately stopped by the presence of Russian nukes, titanium framed subs and a developing military there. Ukraine wasted three long decades after 1991 and was unable to step up to industrial developments, laying low in corruption, a logical easy victim for intervention from all directions. Now everybody is searching for a way to walk away from the disaster they took two decades to manufacture with Frau Merkel, Sleepy Joe, Macron, UK, the US military industrial complex and Trudeau on the frontlines. It is already painful for them and the pain just keeps growing.
Do none of the European nations ever look at things from Russia's point of view? Were they to do so they would know that the idea of NATO "peacekeepers" in Ukraine is for Russia a complete non-starter and would stop wasting their time arguing about the details of same.
"Do none of the European nations ever look at things from Russia's point of view?"
No.
Or mabey the don't want to upset trump
The most influential Polish strategic think-tank, Strategy&Future, with enormous readership and viewership in Poland, which has been rather Washington-leaning for many years, has publicly concluded a few months ago that Poland lost its once-a-century chance of restoring a powerful alliance of nations between Germany and Russia due to Washington being completely unwilling to commit to such a project when it still had a chance in the first part of this war. To the surprise of many, they basically stated that the only reasonable strategy for the foreseeable future is to do everything to avoid the war, and if war comes nonetheless, to conserve human lives and human capital so that Poland could meaningfully participate in the new reality that will emerge a few decades from now when a new international order is established.
Poland is the most sensible of all the NATO countries on this issue.
I think the greatest influence on Polands decision being that they have realised that the US will not support a foray into the Ukraine, which has made them somewhat verbally brazen in the past.
Keep in mind that a Pole has no authority other than what is given to him from Washington above.
As we have barely begun reconstruction talk, this is particularly significant. I have seen a few mentions of "companies" going in to do this, but almost complete silence on where the money will come from.
I wonder how many Polish "volunteers" perished in Ukraine?
Sonst bekommen wir ein zweites Palästina
"The last point is especially relevant ahead of May’s presidential election that the ruling liberal-globalist coalition wants to win in order to replace the outgoing (and very imperfect) conservative president with one of their own so as to remove this major legal obstacle to their plans for transforming Polish society."
Money quote here. WWIII over the literal direct biological and ideological descendants of the very people who so gleefully murdered your grandparents is not likely to win friends and influence voters.
Of course, the "peacekeepers" being the trip wire for WWIII is entirely intentional.
When will the west begin to accuse Poland (sic) of spouting RU talking points?