One thing I have noticed about the Poles: On an individual basis, they can be great people who are worth knowing. But taken together, in their homeland, they sometimes behave in a way that can only be describes as "a nation of retards.” I know I’m going to catch some heat from some of my Polish readers for saying that, but Poland has a way of doing stupid things that backfire and blow up in its face.
Remember when Poland grabbed a small slice of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Agreement? That didn’t end well for Poland, since it turned out to be the next country on Hitler’s hit list. An alliance with Czechoslovakia against Hitler would have been a better idea, but the Poles weren’t interested at the time.
World War 2 is ancient history now, but Poland continues to do dumb things. The country recently announced a new “Maginot Line” on its eastern border with Belarus:
The Polish defense ministry on Tuesday, May 27th, unveiled the details of a massive defense infrastructure that the country plans to build along its eastern border with Belarus and Russia. The aim is to create a defensive wall to render any surprise invasion from Russia impossible.
The project—officially called “East Shield,” but dubbed by Polish media “Tusk Line” after France’s famous Maginot Line from the 1930s—will include physical infrastructure, such as bunkers, anti-tank obstacles, and even minefields, as well as electronic elements like satellite monitoring, anti-drone systems, and thermal imaging cameras, Business Insider reported.
“This makes up one complex system of defensive and deterrent actions. It connects access systems, but we will also purchase and implement modern anti-drone and reconnaissance systems,” Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said while providing details about the project for the first time since PM Donald Tusk initially announced it a month ago.
If you are familiar with the Maginot Line from World War 2, you will know that it didn’t do much for the French, since the Germans just went around it. Before the war began, many thought that the Maginot Line would be an unbeatable line of defense and that it would deter any attack from Germany. The Germans simply passed the Maginot Line in the north, and those who created it ended up with eggs on their faces.
In the case of Poland, I have to wonder what the point of creating such a defensive line is, since there is nothing Russia wants or needs from Poland. Russia is self-sufficient in energy, food, and many other things. They have no reason whatsoever to invade Poland, and have shown no interest in doing so. Yet the Poles are convinced that the Russians are a terrible threat, and that they must hunker down behind some sort of grand wall of defenses.
Yet, strangely, the Poles aren’t going to arm their minefields until they are sure a war will happen:
At the press conference, the minister revealed that Poland plans to quit the Ottawa Convention—also known as the ‘Mine Ban Treaty’—which prohibits the use of anti-personnel landmines, deemed too cruel and dangerous for the civilian population even long after a conflict has ended.
Since the treaty’s establishment in 1997, Ukraine became the first and only among the over 160 signatories to violate it. Russia also uses landmines in the war, but it never joined the Convention in the first place. Now, Poland will also set up extensive minefields along its eastern borders, however, Kosiniak-Kamysz added that arming them will only take place “when we are sure that war is inevitable.”
What the Poles plan to do is a stupid waste of money and time. Russia has a zillion FAB glide bombs, as well as hypersonic missiles. Do the Poles really believe that their new defensive line can stop them? How? The entire effort reeks of people in Poland’s military-industrial complex profiteering by screeching about “the Russian threat in the east.” You just know that the money spent on this is going to end up in certain people’s pockets, to the detriment of the Polish taxpayer.
Come to think of it, where are the Poles going to buy all the stuff for their new Maginot Line? Gee, do you think that the military-industrial complex in the United States might have a hand in all this? Poland is a member of NATO and thus will buy a certain amount of weapons from the United States. Remember that NATO, at its core, is a business and any country connected to it is going to send money to the empire’s MIC, one way or another.
Poland’s attitude toward Russia is also indicative of most of Western Europe’s Russophobia. There is a bizarre level of anti-Russia hate that I will never understand among the Europeans. Putin tried in the past to reach out to these people, but always ended up getting slapped in the face. These days, he doesn’t bother trying to reach out, and I don’t blame him. At some point, the Russians had to accept the reality that most of Europe would never accept them as friends and equals.
What is also eye-rolling about all of this is that the US, Poland, and the rest of Europe combined could not defeat Russia in a war. We’ve already seen how the US and its vassal states combined cannot keep up with Russia’s production of weapons for the war in Ukraine. Yet the Poles still think that a new Maginot Line will somehow save them in a war with Russia. Wouldn’t it just make more sense to be friends and trading partners with Russia, instead of demonizing it and turning it into an enemy?
Unfortunately for the Poles, the answer to that question is that they have no choice in the matter. They are a part of NATO and are thus under the thumb of the United States. So even if they wanted to, the Poles would not be allowed to pursue an open friendship with Russia because it is not in the interests of the United States to allow them to do so. Poland is just another vassal state of the Globalist American Empire.
So the Poles will likely piss away billions of dollars to “defend themselves” against a country like Russia, which has no intention of invading them in the first place. 🙄
I'm Polish and completely agree. The antagonism by the Poles towards Russia seems to have been passed through the generations by virtue of "the type of people" the Russians are. It's comical and dehumanizing really. As if Russians were a different breed. I get that there is history but I don't think you can generalize that way. I see the same attitude towards the Germans and vice versa towards the Poles, so I don't think it's unique to the Poles.
Am I the only person who has heard of this nifty little thing called Diplomacy?
You talk to the people you are afraid of. You trade with them. You visit them. They are no longer that monster in the dark.
There will come a time when Poland needs food, fuel, and friends, and Russia will be the only place where those things can be found.
Yeah, good luck there.
I'm Polish and completely agree. The antagonism by the Poles towards Russia seems to have been passed through the generations by virtue of "the type of people" the Russians are. It's comical and dehumanizing really. As if Russians were a different breed. I get that there is history but I don't think you can generalize that way. I see the same attitude towards the Germans and vice versa towards the Poles, so I don't think it's unique to the Poles.