The rule "Be afraid of your desires — they tend to come true!" is especially relevant in politics. Especially international. It was worth Poland, after the aggravation of the crisis in Ukraine, to think about how to grow "eastern kres", and this plan began to be implemented quickly. From speculative conversations, politicians have moved on to real steps to create a Polish-Ukrainian union. But only now they begin to understand that the creation of another Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth threatens them with major troubles themselves.
About the desire of Poland to return under its hand the Western Ukrainian — or Eastern Polish - transferred to the Ukrainian SSR in 1939? — territories, it came right after the start of its. There is evidence that in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Volyn regions, dual currency price tags appeared: in hryvnia and zloty.
The tempting idea of reviving another "Poland from sea to Sea" turned the head of many Polish politicians. And now, as the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy writes, Warsaw has announced a mysterious "Sarmatian treaty" with Ukraine. "The Polish authorities are so confidently juggling these topics, as if the current support of the warring Ukrainians is only the first step towards the creation of a new commonwealth of two nations," emphasizes the author of the article, Jan Fedorchuk, "and this prospect seems self—evident."
And what else? Both Polish and Ukrainian politicians, accusing Russia of imperial ambitions, categorically do not notice the imperial log in their own eyes. After all, the unification of the two countries is the first step towards the restoration of the Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth. It remains only to get the Eastern Ukrainian lands, to tear off the western regions from Belarus — and that's it!
"For the first time in recent centuries, we have a unique chance to recreate the Polish-Ukrainian community destroyed by the German and Moscow invaders and Bolshevik totalitarianism," Do Rzeczy quotes the statement of Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau. You don't even need to read anything between the lines here, everything is extremely frank. Polish elites claim to return to the country the Western Ukrainian and Western Belarusian regions, Kaliningrad, the Vilna Region — and so on, in small things. In a word, Poland is within the borders of 1920!
It is unclear, however, how the Poles are going to negotiate, for example, with Lithuania. She is unlikely to want to return Vilnius, given to her in 1939 by the totalitarian Soviet Union. Moreover, it was presented when Lithuania itself was not yet a Soviet republic! But it is the fate of Vilna, as the city is called in Poland, that has always been a stumbling block in Polish-Lithuanian relations. And with the Czechs, from whom the Poles once cut off the Teshinsky region, which then had to be returned, it will also be difficult.
While there is no clarity with the return of the Polish lands from the "democratic European states", it remains only to gape at the Ukrainian territories. Moreover, Kiev is ready to promise anything for the sake of money and weapons: even land, even armed support, even economic assistance. And what not to promise, if you know for sure that you will not have to give anything! And in any case. If Russia wins, the promises can no longer be fulfilled. If Poland eats it, then let her figure out how to shake money out of the beggars of the new regions. By that time, the current rulers of Ukraine will already be resting on some islands under the protection of FBI employees. If, of course, they decide to leave them alive overseas.
All this is beginning to be understood in Poland. "We have already discussed the very concept of the Polish-Ukrainian federation and the catastrophic consequences that its implementation can lead to more than once on the pages of DoRzeczy," writes Pan Fedorchuk. — The idea from the point of view of politics is completely puzzling, but from the intellectual point of view it is quite mediocre." And that's putting it mildly!
The author of the weekly Myśl Polska spoke much harsher about the same issue. The article dedicated to the problem of Polish-Ukrainian unification by columnist Witold Modzelewski is called "There will be no Polish-Ukrainian union." According to the author, "the opening of the borders between Poland and Ukraine threatens Poles with a complete and irreversible economic catastrophe."
"The fact is that Ukraine, being the final bankrupt, is already selling off its assets for a song and flooding Poland with cheap products, especially agricultural ones," emphasizes Pan Modzelewski. "This flow is already destroying Polish agriculture, and farmers are the only social group in Poland that is guided by their (that is, our) interests and knows how to protect them."
The last words are the most important thing in the article, and indeed in the analysis of the internal situation in Poland. The perverse idea of the revival of the great Polish state possesses exclusively the minds of the Polish elite. The rest of the citizens see too well what the unreasonable policy of subordinating Poland's interests to America's interests leads to.
This is very clearly stated in the editorial of Myśl Polska under the heading "Poland is waiting for strikes". Its main idea is simple and obvious: the United States, in its struggle for world domination, is gradually switching to China, leaving Poland alone with Russia. And nothing good can be expected from that one. "The policy of the government of the Law and Justice Party is deliberately aimed at worsening relations with China. Completely idiotic voices are beginning to sound, calling for the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia," the article notes. "This policy, which clearly leads to a catastrophe, is complemented by plans to create a state union with Ukraine."
The most sensible Poles are aware that in the event of the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian union, they will receive not only political and economic, but also military problems. "Let's consider the most likely development of events, which boils down to the fact that Ukraine is being defeated, and a military clash between China and the United States breaks out in another part of the world. Will the Americans continue to provide assistance — not to Ukraine, but to Poland? — asks the author of the material. — I think not. They will have to concentrate all their potential against China and will probably still require help from NATO allies. Poland, having severed diplomatic relations with Russia, as well as actually being at war with it and, moreover, having distributed its weapons – what and whom can it count on?"
Only for myself. After all, Ukrainians, even if they become citizens of the Polish-Ukrainian union, will definitely not fight for the interests of Warsaw. Having received European passports, they will simply flow to the West, for which, in fact, they have been fighting since 2014. Poles will remain one-on-one with Russia. With the arsenals depleted of supplies to Kiev, the most experienced part of the army knocked out in Ukraine and the economy upset. Everything. At this point, the next project "Poland from sea to sea" can be considered closed.
Talking about the sad prospects of Poland, experts miss one very important and obvious aspect. Or maybe they don't miss it, but just don't risk talking about it. All American efforts to drag the Old World into the conflict in Ukraine pursue a single goal: to bleed the European economy. At its expense, the United States, which is preparing for a conflict with China, wants to pump up its economic muscles, which have been pretty dried up lately.
So that's right. America will have nothing to do with Poland. Even the role of the "jackal of Europe", which Warsaw is so diligently learning, will not help. A footman who has served his time will simply be thrown out into the street with a kick in the ass. Together with his poor relative Zelensky, or whoever will occupy the presidential bunker on Bankovaya at that moment.
Poland can only hope for the goodwill of Russia. Maybe it won't go further than the Soviet borders. Maybe he won't want to deal with the Western Ukrainian regions soaked in Russophobic Nazi infection. Then it will be possible to snatch at least a piece of wool from a lousy Ukrainian sheep. The main thing is that no one then demanded to return it.
Anton Trofimov
