Back in April I mentioned:
"Poland raises stakes on Putin as Draghi goes to Washington"
For the sake of the Polish people I sure hope their leaders understand what they are doing.
Being a stalking horse out in front of the U.S. and NATO and especially the EU, is a very dangerous position. And in addition, they've accepted something on the order of three million Ukrainians who crossed the border, an extraordinary humanitarian act on a national scale, but one that can't go on forever. So here's wishing the Poles the best....
Don't never, ever trust the Eurocrats. They are slime.
From ReMix, August 31:
Left-wing Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt posted on social media that Poland will not receive EU funds no matter how much it contributes to Ukraine war aid
No matter how much Poland contributes to Ukraine war aid, the country will not receive any European Union recovery funds, said Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian politician and leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Group) in the European Parliament.
Verhofstadt, who has long opposed Poland’s government, issued the threat on social media. While Poland has fulfilled EU milestones set by Brussels to unlock National Recovery Plan funds, the EU has issued new milestones in what appears to be an effort to continuously move the goalposts and interfere in Poland’s upcoming elections in favor of the left-wing opposition.
In 2017, we heard from Verhofstadt when shortly after Poland’s Independence March he named the participants of the patriotic demonstration “60,000 fascists, Nazis and white supremacists” in a forum of the European Parliament.
Verhofstadt is also very keen on voicing his opinion about Poland on social media. Let us note that despite the unprecedented support Poland provides to war refugees from Ukraine, it still has not received any new funds from the EU.....
....MUCH MORE
HT: ZH
25 days before Russia invaded we had this comment:
Rabobank:" Russia Is Prepared To Declare Economic War On The West, Inflicting 'Huge Economic Pain'"
I'm using an older version of a map that was making the rounds a decade ago. You can tell because there is no longer a NATO presence in Afghanistan.
NATO members were run out of the country by a bunch of 8th century jihadis.
It would be good if the frontline NATO members facing Ukraine remember this fact and understand they are at risk of being hung out to dry should it prove expedient for the larger NATO members.
Loyalty to the West means nothing, as Czechoslovakia found out in 1938, the Montagnard tribesmen and Hmong found out in 1975 and the Afghan interpreters and fixers found out in 2021. Self defense/self reliance is probably worth at least as much As NATO's Article 5.....
And all the while I keep flashing back to this from 2018, and many other occasions:
Poland has been trying to warn the rest of Europe of the risks in getting too dependent on Russian gas, in particular via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
New Russian Pipeline In Baltic Sea Could 'Collapse' Ukraine
I'm not sure what it is about the Poles but they seem wary of their neighbors
