Yes, I know: in politics, especially this global one, the category of loyalty and betrayal is very insignificant.
Sometimes it can be harmful to keep loyalty at any cost, but on the another hand, it is worth keeping it where it can be, or at least verbally, manifested, due to the fact that it is simply a certain image capital, which besides has a certain value. However, the worst thing is to show completely unselfishly the betrayal and the deficiency of loyalty in situations where nothing brings to our country. And this is how the Polish state behaves towards friends and neighbours, with whom we theoretically have no conflicts of interest.
In 1991 Poland was 1 of the co-founders of the Visegrad Triangle, which included 3 countries of our region – outside our country, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In 1993, as a consequence of the breakdown of the federations of our confederate neighbours, the triangle became a group with the Czech Republic and Slovakia as a composition. The thought was not new, but reached out to a community of interests on the 1 hand and to a certain common identity of the Habsburg times, and on the another hand to a number of inter-war integration ideas that had never been realized, but continued to circulate in different political lines of the region. In 1990. The concept of cooperation came down to the rule of a fair and rational presumption that only by working together as a Central Europe can we accomplish the favourable conditions for participation in the European Union. This did not work out entirely, due to the fact that in the group for political reasons Slovakia under Vladimir Mechiar was marginalized. In subsequent years, however, we have inactive heard from representatives of the Polish political class of importance and importance attached to regional cooperation in our Old Continent region.
In fresh years, however, words have ended. This is not due to serious geopolitical, economic, or crucial conflicts of interest. Central Europe inactive has rather clear and clear priorities, including the common pursuit of our interests in the European Union and the stabilisation of the situation behind our east borders. The second clearly involves avoiding escalation and conflict and maintaining pragmatic, correct relations with the east neighbourhood of the EU. However, Polish authorities – both PiS and PO – are consistently guided by the irrational presumption of our dominant ideological matrix imposing on everyone around the attitude of phobia before Russia. Whoever hates this phobia and tries to talk the language of political realism, is called the enemy or even a creamy agent. This has already happened with the 2 leaders of the Visegrad Group countries: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Slovakia's Head of Government Robert Fica. In line are the Czech Republic, in which the same pragmatic Andrej Babisz will most likely win in the autumn elections. As a result, in a group of 4 countries, we will stay alone with our complexes and phobias.
However, our own phobias can be masked for the sake of maintaining average relationships with the outside world. The lunatic frequently tries to hide his madness, creating appearances that he is simply a average man, bowing down to neighbors and good to friends. The level of madness of the Polish political scene is already so advanced that keeping appearances prevents. The last example of this is the outrage of Donald Tusk on the news that Budapest could become a place of peace negotiations involving the Presidents of the United States and Russia to end the war in Ukraine. A rational state would be pleased that our region has the chance to become a host to the safety of all our decisions. It could be an component of jealousy, regret that this is not the case with us. However, the Polish madness is to publically offend the country of the region with any success, due to the fact that this success is not compatible with the desired imagination of the war storm, which inactive lives the Nadwiślanska political class.
In fact, Popis has already released us geopolitically from the Visegrad Group. We have remained to break the tears of relationship with another patients of the political psychiatric infirmary – the demographic and economically lost Baltic republics.
Mateusz Piskorski
photo profile of Viktor Orban
Think Poland, No. 35-36 (31.08-7.09.2025)
