Two facts to start with. A fewer days ago, I finished reading the book "Army in Ruin" by Edith Zemły. The second fact is simply a military defilement which took place in Warsaw on 15 August.
These 2 facts in their pronunciation and conclusions are in relation to each other, as fact and lie. These 2 facts are so grossly other that combined cannot be both fact and lie. A summary of these 2 facts is specified a immense dissonance that it is impossible to conclude that the fact lies somewhere in the middle.
If anyone believes what is included in Mrs. Żeły's book, they must recognise that Poland does not have an army capable of defending the country even in the attack of the armed forces of Belarus. If anyone believes what Mrs. Jemła's interviewers say in the book, then even half of it is true, then 1 of the apparent and most crucial conclusions is to recognise the governments of the Law and Justice Office in command, equipment and personnel selection, and the backing of the army and the state's defence affairs as a disaster. According to Mrs. Żeły's book, 2 national defence ministers from the PiS, Antoni Macierewicz and Mariusz Błaszczak, are either traitors and abroad agents, or people just stupid in the size of sabotage on a immense scale.
On the another hand, if you believe what was said and shown at the time of the aforementioned parade, then Poland is already an crucial military force in Europe and will be the almost strongest army among European countries. According to the defilada, everything is fine in the army, everything is thoroughly thoughtful, planned and professionally implemented, and civil, that is, political control of the army works flawlessly. Well, defilades are arranged mainly to brag about their own public opinion, to flex military muscles, and to make them proud. Defilades are not expected to show any shortage of the military. Soldiers are not short of shoes or uniforms on the parade. The equipment is mechanized almost 100%. There is no request to care about whether there is ammunition and adequate fuel supplies for the vehicles on the way, or whether the method support of this equipment is decently trained and is sufficient. On the parade, it is not seen whether generals in charge of the army are intelligent, experienced, comprehensively prepared staff, or dull grumps, proficient in sucking up to politicians, intrigues and ruthless in making a career. In 1 sentence, the defilement is for show and like everything for show tends to fake reality.
I have my sources of information about what is happening in the Polish army. They are not sources beyond the rank of major, but they are full credible. On this basis, I believe what is written in the book Edity Zamło. I don't believe anything I heard and saw on the parade 2 days ago. I'm terrified of this parade. How can you lie about the actual state of the army? The military, like all the structures of the present form of Polish statehood, is stubborn, in which the main wine of PiS. The Polish army seems to be a kind of Pothimkinian village, or propaganda facade according to the slogan from the times of interwar sanitation and leadership (it's something fundamentally different than command) of Marshal Edward Śmigłego-Rydz, that "strong, short, ready" and actually after a period of war with the Germans a broken ass. I bet gold coins against buttons that the current Polish army in a clash with the Russian army will not even last this month.
My fear is even greater, due to the fact that among Polish politicians there is inactive a shaking of the sword and a pursuit of military confrontation with Russia. Are they all so stupid that they want to, or are they so incapacitated that they gotta go to war? I wonder 1 more thing. On the Internet, 1 could read that the defilement was awesome in German and Ukrainian media. I think it's ironic. I am convinced that both German and Ukrainian journalists know at least about the book Edity Żeły, and surely the interviews of these countries know its content and examine it thoroughly. The same applies to Russian and Belarusian interviews. Americans must know this from everyday practice. And, by the way, I have not heard that the American Army – in fact the most powerful army in the planet – is making a parade in Washington on any occasion. Is it adequate for Americans to know that they are the most powerful and do not request to manifest it with military defilades? I think it's the another way around. Just like I wrote about the last part about sports, there's something instead, not in effect. In the case of troops, the defilade is alternatively of the strength and efficiency of the army, not as a consequence of these forces and abilities. Finally, if anyone has seen the parade, let them read “Army in Disarray”.
Andrzej Szlezak
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