I've been promising myself for a long time that in my publications, I'm going to break distant from the subject of war, which would let me to see the beauty of the rebirth of nature.
Even if I try, there is always an excuse for my thoughts towards the vast fields of east Ukraine, where fighting is taking place. This time I was provoked by a peaceful Facebook entry Prof. Magdalena Wednesday May 14. I was electrified by the first sentence: "I will ask the unpopular question: can Ukraine not start talks with Russia and give any of its territories in exchange for the lives of those who stay in that country." Mother! – I thought – Wednesday can think humanly – which so far seemed impossible to me.
I have written many times about Zelenski's commitment to war to the last Ukrainian, which, under the conditions of persistent efforts, may exhaust the signs of genocide. I am touched by the destiny of the dead in the hopeless war of both Ukrainians and Russians. So the question quoted to me was Wednesday, the more Ukraine hesitates to make peace talks, the more it loses people and territories occupied successively by Russian troops. However, in order not to be idyllically, I became acquainted with the further part of prof. Wednesday's entry, which for all misfortunes burdened the national states with the "simplified ideological veil" (patriotism!, homeland!, nationalism!, honor!) and to the negative connotation of the ideological fabric mentioned in the negative connotation joined the vague "gigantic interests of corporations specialising in creating and escalating conflicts" to conclude with the question: "Who will yet put the dam?"
My God, I thought, so I, as a Polish national patriot, should feel guilty for the Ukrainians dying in a substitute war between the United States and Russia fought in Ukraine. Oh no, prof. Wednesday, you will not be able to make me feel guilty for loving Poland, due to the fact that the interest of the Polish people is akin to that of my loved ones. It is from the position of national patriot that I act in favour of opposition to attempts to bring Poland into war conflict in Ukraine. It is the nationalists, not the left-wing progressives and totalitarian liberals, who most powerfully express their opposition to the militant impulses of the pre-existing Law and nevertheless the militant representatives of the ruling coalition. It is the people who have the courage, contrary to the full establishment supported by, influential beyond a legitimate measure, mainstream media, to organize anti-war manifestations under the slogans: “This is not our war”.
I know that nationalists are an obstacle to the EU's federalisation. Patriotism is besides classified as a manifestation of retrograde, in a march to educate the only national European identity. And to us, stubborn nationalists, the slogan “God, Honor, Homeland” inactive speaks more than tempting the illusion of prosperity for the price of rejecting Christian religion from the 3 pillars of Mediterranean civilization creating an inexhaustible universe: Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christian ethics. Prof. Magdalena Wednesday, we will not be rushed to a federalised EU where the sign of the Cross will be banned, where national and patriotic feelings will be under the supervision of stateless Europeans, in which reality is already beyond the Orwellian dystopia. We won't!
Another message from the Ukrainian war field. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO chief, called on the Alliance members to let Ukraine to attack Russia's military targets with the weapons it had received from them. "The refusal of Ukraine to usage this weapon against legal (sic!) military targets in Russia makes it very hard for them to defend themselves," said Stoltenberg, who in the first phase of the proxy war in Ukraine seemed to be a prudent policy. Well, the war is destroying!
The happiness of God to readers of “Polish Thought”!
Jacek Frankowski
photo. ria.novosti
Think Poland, No. 23-24 (2-9.06.2024)
