We've been warning about this for years. From the "Poland Plans to Dominate Europe" series in 2017 to the Intermarium/Three Seas Initiative:
Poland’s plans to create global energy giant take another step forward
To the massive armaments build-up:
- "Poland Will Have a Large and Modern Tank Army"
- ...And Helicopters, Poland Will Have A LOT Of Attack Helicopters
And now this, from the old propagandists at Russia Today, now RT, September 9 (via the Internet Archive for folks who are not allowed to read Russian media):
Warsaw is reportedly eyeing changes to the border with the Czech Republic
Poland’s conservative government has intensified efforts to have the country's border with the Czech Republic redrawn in a way more favorable to Warsaw, the Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported on Thursday.
The demarcation of the border took place in the 1950s, when the outcome of World War II was being settled. Poland and what was then Czechoslovakia, who were both part of the Communist bloc at the time, disputed some lands, and Poland believes it didn’t receive its fair share. Warsaw wants to get 368.44 hectares in compensation, the newspaper said.
Polish MP Jaroslaw Krajewski from the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), told Rzeczpospolita that Poland was right to reject a 2005 Czech proposal to settle the issue by paying compensation.
Poles and Czechs have historic grudges over a portion of land in the Cieszyn Silesia region, which was divided in the 1920s, after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Warsaw also grabbed a chance to seize a disputed piece of Czech territory called Trans-Olza or Zaolzie, when Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 under the Munich Agreement with Britain and France. After the Nazis were defeated, Poland returned sovereignty over the land to Czechoslovakia, with a treaty signed in 1958 confirming the status quo....
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Sure, they'll say the 368.44 hectares is all they want but how long will it be before we hear Prime Minister Morawiecki saying "This is my last territorial demand in Europe!"
A bit to the east of Cieszyn Silesia are the High Tatras, currently shared with Slovakia but which rumor has the Poles desiring in whole so as to create an all-Polish winter wonderland, "Like the Alps, but less expensive":
Granted, we thought Poland would make its initial move on Lithuania to get the Commonwealth back together, before heading on to Belarus:
"Watch Out Lithuania: Poland Is Militarizing Faster Than Any Nation In Europe"
Here's a map we used a couple weeks before the Russian invasion:
The Polish Commonwealth in 1635 in red
note: trying to figure-out where Kiev and Smolensk are on this map to double-check this isn't post-the-1667 Treaty of Andrusovo. I think we're good.
