Yes, I am not old adequate to remember the cries of not dying for Gdańsk, but at the same time old adequate to remember all those laughing laughs about how the West paints chalk on the asphalt. And how the West is fearful. Not like brave Poland. Life rapidly did the test and Poles not only shake like an ass at a exile on the border with Belarus, which even this fearsome West begins to precede Poland in the desire to place peacekeeper troops in Ukraine.
Of course, I realize the concerns of these Poles, which do not support the thought of any peacekeeper troops in Ukraine at all. I understand, but I don't think I rather agree. However, it is at least coherent. Meanwhile, the remainder of the coherent argument is improbable to exist. Yes, yes, yes, peacekeepers in Ukraine, NATO strong, EU strong – almost all Polish politicians seem to talk – but someway these peacekeepers without a Polish soldier. The Polish soldier is to be in Poland, due to the fact that it is the front country – the general said both. At the same time, it is hard not to grin at the thought of what the Spanish general or French politician will think, explaining to his fellow countrymen that it is the French and not Poles who are to defender the truce at the Polish border.
For years, Poles have based their safety on the power of the United States. present we can gag about it, but in fact there was alternatively no alternate in this geopolitical arrangement. Now this resisting goes slow to history. Not even due to Trump or Musk himself, but wider: due to Trumpism. American democracy is no longer able to defy pro-Russian right-wing populism and even if Trump is missing, Trumpism will remain. Which means a strong uncle from the United States can bargain an umbrella.
Europe is left alone. Again Poles want to make the same mistake. alternatively of being in the forpost of change, they are looking for a stronger neighbour to take care of, fatten and send a soldier east. It is known that a Polish soldier is at most to push women with children into the forest, but no longer to a real war, even as a peacemaker.
For so many years Poles taught, for so many years they calculated how much GDP they give to the army, and erstwhile it comes to that, they are afraid to send a fistful of soldiers as peacekeepers. The worst part is Putin sees it. He knows he can have worse equipment than Europe, worse financial resources. But he has something that Europe is full of, which is usually done by others, he is not. This is not a soldier ready to fight. And die. Poland does not have specified a soldier. Poland only has chalk on (new) asphalt for EU money.
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