Why is Poland losing, despite military and economical support for Ukraine, despite many gestures of solidarity and assistance to the Ukrainian “refugees”, despite giving it the title “humanitarian power”?
The biggest defeat that occurred after February 24 of the memorable year is that Poland is increasingly little and little between Germany and Russia, and increasingly between Germany and Ukraine. Despite the disasters suffered in the clash with Russia, Ukraine built 1 of the strongest armies in Europe and guarantees immense post-war support for its economy. As a consequence of the war, Poland, a medium-sized country with comparatively small military potential, became a NATO front country from a real event, where military force decides on the course of events in its neighbourhood. This is the worst solution possible for Poland. Poland is besides losing its global position and political, military, economical and diplomatic potential. In addition, to the least extent, she did not engage in strengthening this potential, but on the contrary, to prove her commitment to Ukraine, she was curious in primarily creating an ad hoc coalition with specified power as Lithuania.
Despite giving Ukraine almost all weapons and ammunition supplies for free, and despite the taking on of 2 million Ukrainian citizens, the government "good change" not only did not get approval from the Ukrainian government to exhume victims of the Volyn massacre and commemorate in places where Polish villages were razed to the ground. Not only did he get nothing, he didn't even dare ask. Can this approach even be called politics? Politics should have a purpose. Meanwhile, in the conduct of the government "good change" no political goal could be seen to be unlike it, due to the fact that it could not have been overdoing Ukraine, no substance what it did. The Polish authorities, who took on the function of Ukraine's advocate in Europe, did not usage the art of persuasion, propaganda, diplomacy and another means available to themselves to dissuade Ukrainians from idealizing fascist organizations, in the most literal sense of crime, who were guilty of killing hundreds of thousands of Poles, not to mention 30 1000 Ukrainians. Why? due to the fact that to everything they do in politics, they will add russophobia and due to this, their historical mutilation of forming Ukrainian fresh national identity based on the tradition of the CNS-UPA seemed most desirable to them.
"The horse as it is, everyone sees" – as Fr Benedict Chmielewski aptly recorded, editing a note to the first Polish encyclopedia. For he saw no sense of divorcing himself over the obvious. And this universal fact is worth reminding all those who take a look at all word of the "genial strategist" by Jarosław Kaczyński.
It was expected to be so beautiful. It seemed that the war in the East would lead to a breakthrough in relations with Ukraine in our favour, that the Ukrainian elite would arrive, that in Europe they had only 1 ally in stopping Russia's neo-imperial urges, that relationship with Poland would be worth pursuing, that there would be a new, based on the awareness of common interests of the era in relations with Kiev, that the close relation with Warsaw was in Ukraine's own interest, and this would consequence in economical and political cooperation, and open to settling historical events. The war with Russia was besides expected to effectively heal Ukrainians from illusions about their Western European allies, led by Germans, whom this war does not lie prominently due to the fact that they want to proceed their business with Moscow, and that if it had not been for Poland's pressures, Ukraine would have received nothing from Berlin. Ukraine was to search our friendship, due to the fact that thanks to Polish comprehensive assistance and lobbying it will become a associate of NATO and the EU, which will change the arrangement of forces on the continent and will make Poland under American protectorate and patronage become a regional power, something like Israel in east Europe, weakening German dominance.
Instead of staying distant from a conflict that Poland does not concern, they put their fingers between the doors and the fur, they got into geopolitical machination, in which they did not know what was going on. They got active in a game they didn't know the rules, in games they were pawns in. They knew there was a war, but they didn't know who was shooting. alternatively of diplomatic strategy, they chaotically pitched from wall to wall, with a babbling spell on their lips: “There is no sovereign Poland without sovereign Ukraine”. They did not see that unusual was the war, that no 1 had said to her that no 1 had broken diplomatic relations, that no 1 had blown up a Russian pipeline pumping Russian oil to the west and bringing Ukraine billions for its transit, that Putin did not bomb tv towers, allowing cabaret performances of Zelenski's film-television crew. The war seems pointless, artificial, incomprehensible, conducted as if from ignorance. Or is there another purpose, and it's not just Ukraine? In a well-prepared and coordinated action Poland settles millions of “refugees”. And isn't it the Polish war that's going on?
It has not come to light that the conflict is illogical, or even contrary to the U.S. policy initiated by Obama (whose Biden was vice president) which consisted of withdrawing from overseas warfare, focusing on economical confrontation with China and neutralizing Russia's approach to China. Nor did it come to pass that the US invasion was equally illogical and detrimental to the interests of the US and that in both cases we had the same machination – a war that was detrimental to the interests of the US, but beneficial to the interests of a lobby in Washington, and that in Washington there was not Biden, but the extremist wing of Democrats that were approaching communism, and in abroad policy the judaic neoconservatives from the erstwhile Polish borders have an increasingly crucial voice. Nor did it come to light that the U.S. frequently execute ad hoc and extremist volts at the expense of weaker partners, that there would be a frost of conflict, that Ukraine would be forced to accept the failure of Crimea and Donbas, that it would be together with Poland kept under steam and activated according to geopolitical needs, that there would be a reset with Russia and with Germany, always ready to accept the function of a "regional policeman". They thought that for the price of unconditional and uncritical support of Ukraine they would receive Intermortal and received Mitteleuropa and Ucrotoline. They besides didn't know who their partner in Ukraine was? It's not a tv clown, it's post-Soviet oligarchs.
Krzysztof Balinski
This is simply a fragment of the book “Poland or Ucrotoline, or Poland Palestine of Europe”, Capital, Warsaw 2024, p. 459.
Think Poland, No. 21-22 (19-26.05.2024)
