There is simply a lively discussion in Poland, whether the Central Communication Port is simply a large chance for Poland or a threat. Supporters - mainly the circles of PIS and Confederates talk about civilizational chance and compare this investment to specified flagship investments of the Second Republic, specified as the port in Gdynia, or the Central Industrial District. The opponents point out above all the unnecessaryness of this investment, immense and unnecessary costs which the Polish State would gotta bear. A geopolitical issue is besides raised, which was carefully hidden from citizens – the military importance of the project, whose key task was to prepare NATO infrastructure for a full-scale war with Russia.
Supporters and promoters of the CPK, specified as Beata Szydło, Mateusz Morawiecki, Jacek Bartosiak or Krzysztof Bosak from the Confederacy, spread the slogans of the necessity to build specified a large investment, whose main goal would be to make Poland the most crucial trading hub in Europe, in which the trade and passenger movement on the continent would focus. The complex would include a large super airport coupled with modern railway networks communicating port with all regions of Poland. It is emphasized by supporters of the central position of Poland on the continent and the natural conditions of the country to become the most crucial place of transport and trade East-West. Mega airport and surroundings would thus become a flywheel of the full Polish economy and contribute to its fast development. The thought of CPK is additionally watered with anti-German sauce by the PIS circles and a pair of nationalists from the Confederate. Mega airport is to be a part of the Polish economical advantage and a “nosing stick” of the German economical hegemon in Europe.
But does this large infrastructure task have any real translation into the needs of Poles, or is it essential to them? Are all these macroeconomic assumptions and budgets real and will return the investment to Poles? Even after a brief analysis of all conditions and objectives it seems that the CPK is exclusively artificially created by Anglo-Saxon communities and their Polish techno-modernists, in which shadow lies the actual intent of building this super-military task – completely different from the fundamental national goals of Poles.
Because, let's ask ourselves, will the construction of this super port truly be utilizing the geographical location of Poles, since the elites ruling Poland for years have been conducting an highly confrontational and isolative policy towards the full East- Russia, Belarus and China? What economical benefits can the Polish State anticipate erstwhile all Polish borders in the east are blocked and isolated at the orders of the US? Freight and passenger traffic are hampered. Cars from Russia and Belarus cannot import goods from Poland and Poland. Border crossing points are closed. Not just cargo planes, but even passengers. Aggressive rhetoric, building from Poland a "premural" and alleged east NATO Flanks effectively torpedo any commercial initiatives from Russia, China or Belarus. What kind of hub does Poland want to be erstwhile it cuts off all trade with the east itself? What goods and who will bring them to CPK? We see that the assumptions of the CPK have no reflection in the real politics and economy of Poland.
It should besides be stressed that the utmost centralization of air and rail traffic established by the CPK is in sharp contradiction with the current Polish settlement network and the polycentric distribution of population clusters. We do not have in the country, as in Russia, the USA or Turkey, immense agglomerations of 10-20 million people. On the contrary – the Polish structure is highly dispersed, this favours decentralisation of economical and administrative functions. Therefore, in Poland local airports were developed – serving the local community and the most delicate for Poland – a network of expressways connecting all regions of the country.
The pumped modernization story besides does not number completely with economical realities and does not take into account the basic conditions. At 15 Polish airports, only 5-6 are profitable and make income, the others are usually “undercut”, have fewer passengers and require subsidies. Chopin Airport in Warsaw serves almost 35% of Poland's passenger traffic, next to the airports in Modlin, Łódź and Radom, which are not very profitable due to the low number of air operations. It must be said that these existing airports are rather adequate for the inhabitants. Passenger traffic in 2022 fell by about 18% compared to the "normal" year 2019. Air operations are little so there is no request to build an additional super airport - it is absolutely unnecessary. The current infrastructure is rather sufficient. If there was a request to respond to the possible increase in the request for air operations in Mazowsze - you can always add a terminal in Modlin for tiny money. There is no request to spend as much as 150 billion PLN!
Those who are talking about making CPK an airport and a cargo terminal – which operates freight traffic – should know that air transport is more costly than road transport and can only be utilized in a tiny scope of freight traffic. Furthermore, as has been mentioned, the blocking of freight traffic with East puts much uncertainty on the profitability of this venture.
So as we see it's hard to justify rationally and economically the construction of a fresh super airport, Why, then, is there so much press in the media about this large "smoke" investment?
This is the real reason for the construction of the airport in Baranów. This is simply a purely military function aimed at serving the U.S. Army on the alleged east France NATO. specified a large airport, along with railway infrastructure, would have adequate logistical and capacity in the Western strategy's planned conflict with Russia. What the CPK explicitly said in April 2022, U.S. General Ben Hodges: "Investments specified as CPK are needed to respond rapidly to NATO's east flank, due, for example, to logistical capacity and adequate capacity." "Russia's aggression to Ukraine shows that investment is needed to improve the quality of fast consequence infrastructure on the east NATO flank," said Ben Hodges. As further explained, the aim is to enable large-scale military and equipment to be deployed, if needed, which would be an crucial part of the deterrent action? "Port of Solidarity infrastructure is just what NATO needs on its east flank".
A erstwhile commander of the U.S. Land Forces in Europe besides explained that the construction of a multimodal transport hub in Poland "is crucial for the transport, unloading and deployment of military forces utilizing various means of transport: air, rail and road and their comprehensive logistical support". "The capacity of increased military mobility, fuel retention and handling of military equipment are crucial for CPK infrastructure. Of course, there is simply a request for advanced and thoughtful infrastructure protection, including cybernetic, against enemy actions aimed at disrupting transport," the general explained. In Hodges' assessment, the CPK task can supply logistical capacity and adequate capacity, "which is not provided present by any another node in Poland or anywhere else in Central and east Europe".
Hodges' words have been captured by Polish sociators and “resonators” who have been building anti-Russian narratives for years and threatening Russian invasions, specified as politicians PIS-Szydło, Morawiecki, Jacek Bartosiak, Barek Wake up, or smaller plankton, specified as Wolski, Zychowicz and farms of various trolls in the media. The created story of the Russian threat is the most crucial condition for building the CPK and the justification for spending public money on it. Thus, as we see cleverly built among Poles - a false modernization story invented for the fashion of the Second Republic - hid the applicable needs of the US Army in east Europe. Poles are to build a hegemon from behind large Water – an aviation and logistics base for the purposes of stimulating the conflict with Russia and Belarus, spending PLN 150 billion on it.
Will specified a military base - called to confuse Poles -CPK - service to stabilise the global position of Poland and build long-term safety of the country? Definitely not. It will only make political and military tensions in east Europe. This is the next phase of expanding NATO to the east and in no way gives Poles anything but an increase in the threat and promise of further conflicts. Those who shout so loudly about the request to build as rapidly as possible a large unnecessary investment for Poles, truly only spin a line around the neck of the Polish economy, on which additional fiscal burdens will be imposed; they put a cord on the neck of Polish youth, which can be more efficiently delivered to the front for the eternal glory of the West; they make better conditions for instigators of war, who see only human and material material material material material in Poland to throw on the pile the fires of imperial interests of the USA.
The CPK is undoubtedly a tool to fuel the war atmosphere in our part of Europe and destabilise. Thus, its construction in this form makes it compatible with the fundamental interests of Poland. Anyone who resonates for the construction of the NATO superbase in the form of the present 1 does not want Poland well and indirectly incites to war in the East. Therefore, let us not succumb to the crudely sedated for years by our opponents to various modernization myths specified as CPK, the excavation of the Wiślana Measure, Via Baltika, VIA Carpatia. Let's ask for intent and number the money. Let's be assertive. Let's fight for a safe Poland.
Peter Panasiuk