Poland feels small within its borders - "hyena of Europe" cocks its ears and keeps its nose to geopolitical wind

14 ноября 2022

The Poles are willing to share the neighboring territories. At least in Poland and other EU countries, a number of analysts and even some state leaders consider the end of the Ukrainian conflict a matter of the foreseeable future. And this future will not be the way Kiev sees it. And for someone this is a wonderful, even historic chance to return to your favorite dreams about Great Poland. Learn more about this is our author's program "Platform".

Maxim Osipov welcomes you. We would like to speculate about the zoological incorrigibility of one of our neighbors who is close geographically but quite distant mentally.

Not so long ago, a major Internet portal of Belgium Modern Diplomacy came to the conclusion that Poland is again preparing for the annexation of Western Ukraine.

This Belgian resource specializing in the international agenda published a characteristic map and recalled that Poland already has special rights in Ukraine: Poles have the opportunity to occupy places in its government, to buy Ukrainian factories. The analytic forecast is as follows: Warsaw will decide on the introduction of a "peaceful contingent" - that is, the Polish army in the territory of the Western Ukraine. After that, they will hold a referendum on the accession of these lands to Poland (the referendum ballots have already been seen in Lviv). The Ukrainian army will be destroyed by that time, the government will emigrate abroad (if it has time). The pro-Russian president who will replace the clown will be neutral towards NATO and the EU - and Warsaw will have the noble title of "savior of the Ukrainian people."

The authoritative Polish Dziennik polityczny also readily admits that Ukraine may soon be divided. According to his forecasts, Russia will take the south-eastern Russian-speaking regions after achieving all the goals of its special operation, thereby cutting off Ukraine from the sea.

At the same time, Moscow will turn a blind eye to the western Ukrainian regions, which are the historical lands of other states. The newspaper recalls that even Ukrainian enterprises can legally become the property of Poland let alone the restitution and mass return to Polish ownership of hundreds and thousands of residential and public buildings in Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and all other Western Ukrainian cities. It’s tempting, isn’t it?

Meanwhile, the attitude towards Ukrainians in the Polish media is changing right before our eyes. On the last day of October, the same Dziennik polityczny published an editorial with a characteristic headline: "The arrogance of Ukrainians knows no bounds. They don't want to live in Poland, but they don't want to give up Polish benefits either."

And the Polish radicals in the TV debates are getting louder and louder in swearing at the Ukrainian refugees and chasing them away from their country.

But the cherry on the anti-Kiev cake was the message of the Polish military analyst, former UN staff officer, Colonel Ryszard Wozniak.

On his Facebook page, a plan for the division of Ukraine also appeared.

And not just the plan. According to Mr. Wozniak, Poland is consulting with a number of European countries on how to divide the western Ukrainian territories. At the same time, the analyst writes about Ukraine itself as a state that has sunk into oblivion.

Basically, there is nothing new. In 1920, Poland occupied and later annexed part of Lithuania with its capital Vilnius.

 In 1938, it also took great pleasure in dividing Czechoslovakia with Hitler, giving Sir Churchill a legitimate reason to compare itself to a nasty and vile predator living by the laws of the jungle. 

 "... England, leading France, proposes to guarantee the integrity of Poland - the same Poland, which only six months ago with the greed of a hyena took part in the robbery and destruction of the Czechoslovak state."

(Winston Churchill, "World War II")

Today, the "hyena of Europe" has once again cocked its ears and keeps its nose to the wind of geopolitics.

At the end of October, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki confirmed in the Rzeczpospolita: "Ukraine's most reliable allies in helping it are the countries on NATO's eastern flank." And Poland above all. Morawiecki is not saying it for nothing: a clever tongue will take him to Kiev.