On the night of 4 to 5 June 1992, from the Parliamentary Speaker, from the mouth of the Prime Minister of the Falling Government, the dramatic words were said: "Whose will Poland be?". Although Jan Olszewski was a strikingly weak leader, in this question he skillfully gave the essence of the 3rd Republic.
For the political gangs and cateries of our unfortunate country are only asking for the minute "what Poland will be like". That's the least they care about. The essence of the dispute is not “what” but “who” will be. Who will be seated at a table at any time and who must be content with cold snacks.
At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, there was a collapse of the bipolar planet and the construction of the single-polar world. The spheres of influence have changed rapidly. Poland has become part of the American zone. Of course, despite the dreams of national megalomaniacs, we had nothing to say about it. However, it should be fair to admit that after decades of forced alliance with the USSR and the economical crisis of the 1980s, this geopolitical phrase corresponded to the majority of society. According to CBOS data, from the second half of the 1990s to 2014 Poland's support for NATO membership ranged between 60 and 70%. After 2014, it importantly increased.
Such a advanced durability of support for the Euro-Atlantic structures does not come out of nowhere. 1 of the first steps of the fresh administrators, immediately after the mastery of the peculiar services, was to master all applicable mass media. It would be taken care of with apparent diversity, and in key issues supposedly the feuded media talk with 1 voice. It is simply a mechanics akin to that discussed above for the political scene area. For 3 decades, Polish-speaking media have been taking care of our fears, dreams and phobias. And they do it effectively. Even the Internet, which is at any phase of technological improvement a kind of oasis of freedom, is now being increasingly censored.
Paradoxically, belonging to political and military Euro-Atlantic structures is not necessarily linked to vassalisation. This is shown by many examples from a powerful Turkey starting with tiny Hungary ending. However, specified a junior partner (that I will usage Anglo-Saxon jargon) who does not show his own ambition is simply easier to use. His needs and interests request not be taken into account. All he has to do is command him, and he will obey him. That's why Americans, if they can sense the weakness of the junior partner's state structure, immediately benefit from the situation. They take control over peculiar services, armed forces, media, political organisations and any another means of influence in the country. After which, they consistently depend on each other. They do so constantly, utilizing both legal and illegal methods and measures. They don't do it due to the fact that they're especially mean. On the contrary, they do this due to the fact that there are empires, and that is how empires have been doing since the dawn of history.
But they are not infallible. On the night of 15 to 16 July 2016, a failed effort by a group of Turkish military coups took place. Poliszynel's secret is the function the CIA played in these events. "It is crystal clear that the United States was behind the events of July 15, and the FETO movement was only carrying out this assassination following their orders," stated the Turkish abroad Minister, Suleyman Soylu. But yet Recep Tayyip Erdogan He held power. As a pragmatist, he remained in an alliance with the US, but his position in this interaction increased significantly.
However, Poland is in a different, importantly worse position than Turkey in 2015. The Polish state was completely subordinate to the United States of America in all applicable aspects. This disproportionate alliance is not only highly costly for us, but besides simply dangerous in fresh times. The “replacement war” conducted just behind our time poses a real threat to the spread of conflict in our territory. In an highly unfavourable scenario, even the threat to the biological existence of the nation. However, there is virtually nothing we can do about it at the moment. We gotta number on a favourable arrangement of global factors and the deescalation of the conflict. Otherwise, in a fewer months we will be supplying not only our coal, food and goods to Ukraine, but besides a Polish recruit. In the function of cannon meat.
One might say that the situation is hopeless and would not be far from the truth. However, I believe that even in the deepest darkness it is worth looking for a flame, though sparks from which our hope will ignite.
For us to escape the function of the third-rate vassal of the planet superpower, there must be co-incidence of at least 2 factors. The first, external, is the loosening of the guardianship over the organs of our state. The second is the interior socio-political possible to take control of the functions of the state and to accomplish a permanent extension of sovereignty towards the protector. The simultaneous occurrence of these factors seems unlikely, but I remind you that in our confused past we have sometimes emerged victorious from hard situations. But each time it required patience, consequences, and large wisdom.
Consider how to regain Poland from a simpler external aspect. all fewer decades, geopolitic poles are being revalued. The rising empires conflict for their space with the old empires. This clash takes place on many levels, military confrontation is usually its culmination. We are now at the end of the pre-frontal phase, or at the beginning of a appropriate global armed conflict. It came at an highly negative minute for us. Chinese concepts of creating an economical Euro-Asian space provided an chance for countries at the interface of old Europe and Eurasia to make unprecedented economical and political development. That's the past. The choice of Ukraine as a substitute war was not accidental. Its aim was not only to reduce Russia's potential, but above all to destruct the Chinese task of the fresh Silk Road. Both objectives are an expression of the interest of the United States, which in this area is completely contrary to the interest of Poland.
However, the facts that I have cited present are purely historical. Milk has spilled, and our alliances are determined by factors independent of our will. It is so hoped that the main theatre of military confrontation will be located in an area another than Central Europe. It's inactive an impossible scenario. The candidate for this lewd function may be the east Pacific area or the Pakistani-Indian borderland. However, wherever the epicentre of planet War III is located, the apparent interest of Poland is to be as far distant from this place as possible. This will reduce the likelihood of biological destruction, but it will besides give us a chance to improve our political position towards a elder partner and another actors.
However, to take advantage of a possible opportunity, we must have at the helm of power people intellectually and substantively prepared to conduct independent politics. There is presently no chance of specified political power, capable of taking over and exercising power. Compradorian elites take care of this, thereby pursuing the American and their own interests. American, due to the fact that as I pointed out above, it's easier to manage a smaller partner than to get along with him. Own, due to the fact that the position quo provides impunity-free peaceful consumption at the expense of the Polish taxpayer. Infringement of the position quo would, on the another hand, mean a cut-off from the sources of backing and possible liability for fraud.
Therefore, the Comprador elites are powerfully determined to fight all manifestations of independent political and media activity. They fight them in an absolute way, without hesitate to abuse the apparatus of the state and exceed the law. A good example is casus Matthew PiskorskiWho was imprisoned in mining custody for respective years. erstwhile the rulers, influenced by global opinion, were forced to release them. They put him on court charges. At present, they are procrastinating the judicial procedure to prevent Piskorski from clearing himself. Thus paralyzed were the actions of a possibly dangerous opponent of the government, who proposed coherent, alternate to the political mainstream, ideas for Poland.
Simply extrapolate the Piskorski case simply to see that the governing centres of Poland will not let an influence centre to appear, which would be able to take real power in the country. The adoption of the conditions of parliamentary combat condemns us to unimaginable defeat by political annihilation or mainstream absorption. This phenomenon was submitted to Kukiz’15 during the erstwhile parliamentary term, which started as a nonpartisan alternate and ended up as a PiS appetizer. Today, a akin way follows the Confederate.
However, the situation is not hopeless. In view of the disproportionateity of the forces of the parties to the dispute in question, it is appropriate to adopt a method of action appropriate to asymmetrical conflicts. 1 solution may be to apply the alleged undirected opposition strategy. In this strategy, there is no central dispatch centre and organizational cells are a loosely linked network with full autonomy in terms of planning as well as executions. specified a structure provides networks with large flexibility and opposition to state blows.
Although this sounds complicated in practice, it is highly simple, and it has already begun to function spontaneously. In the face of the opponent's media monopoly, we started producing alternative, tiny and independent sources of information. Individually, they are weak, but the full numbers scope respective percent of the population. Multiplying communication channels (blogs, vlogs, net tv, informal groups, etc.) although autonomous can be a kind of tense strategy of this kind. The strength here is the weakness that is traditionally considered to be lacking in hierarchical structure. This makes us immune to possible blows from the state, as unlike the hierarchical structure, even the elimination of individual cells does not affect the quality of the work of others.
So if you ask what you can do for Poland today, I will answer you to increase the cognition of others. Collect independent content in a chosen way, set up informal groups where you can show yourself knowledge. And do not believe the charismatic prophets and another “antisystemists” like Kukiza. They're here to lead us astray. I can't warrant we'll win this way. But if we play by the rules imposed on us by our opponent, we will lose with certainty.
Today, local Compradorian elites and journalists working for them effort to convince Poles that in doing American interests we will build a Polish empire. It's a inexpensive lie, good for weak minds. I want my country back in the world's first league after centuries. I would like us to be free to choose our own way of life so that we can choose our own friends and enemies. To make Poland independent. But it won't happen overnight. possibly not even from generation to generation. However, each road starts with the first step. I'm on my way. Are you coming with me?
Przemysław Piasta
Think Poland, No. 45-46 (6-13.11.2022)
