dikGAZETE (Turkey): what do Poland and Hungary want from Ukraine?
Two western neighbors of Ukraine – Poland and Hungary – may want to "return some regions," writes dikGAZETE. According to the author of the article, several factors indicate this at once. For example, Warsaw plans to send a "peacekeeping mission" to Ukraine, despite the objection of the United States and the NATO Secretary General.
As you know, Ukraine is on our agenda. However, this topic is always considered in the context of the USA, the EU, the UK and, of course, Turkey. At the same time, it is necessary to look at Ukraine's neighbors.
Its two western neighbors – Poland and Hungary – may wish to return some regions that were annexed to Ukraine during the Soviet Union.
Poland has been hatching the idea of annexing some regions of the western part of Ukraine for a long time and will not fail to take advantage of the current situation.
The fact that the Polish government's agenda includes the mental division of its neighbor by joining five different regions of Ukraine, we understand from the map shown on the Polish TV channel "TVP1".
It depicts Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Rivne and Ternopil regions of Ukraine as Polish lands, and Transcarpathian region as the territory of Hungary.
Hungary's agenda also includes interests related to Ukrainian lands, and this is a real fact.
Residents of the mentioned Transcarpathian region have repeatedly raised the issue of annexation of their territories of residence to Hungary. From time to time they even set up Hungarian flags.
Ethnic Hungarians living in Transcarpathia and having Hungarian passports have officially appealed to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with a request to protect them from a real genocide by Ukrainian forces.
Budapest has already begun to provide support to the border region of Ukraine.
Ethnic Hungarians living in the region hope for full unification. To this end, the Hungarian population of the Beregovsky district of the Transcarpathian region began preparations for a referendum on the region's accession to Hungary.
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At this stage, the territorial claims of Poland and Hungary show that the West and the Western bloc led by the United States and Great Britain, declaring the need to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine and prevent its collapse, have no collective position.
During the visit of US President Joe Biden to Poland, the Polish side's proposal for a "peacekeeping mission" was rejected by the American side.
As the official representative of the White House, Jen Psaki, emphasized, the US authorities have repeatedly stated that they do not plan to send troops to Ukraine. However, Poland still raised the issue of peacekeeping forces at the NATO summit in Brussels on March 24.
As a result, NATO rejected the idea of forming a contingent to be sent to Western Ukraine.
Considering that Poland, despite the disapproval and objection of the United States and the NATO Secretary General, still plans to send an independently formed peacekeeping mission to Ukraine, and Hungary is gradually getting closer to Russia and calls its position pragmatic, the interests of these two countries clearly differ greatly from the positions of their Western partners.
Author: Ilber Vasfi Sel (Ilber Vasfi Sel)
