Europe has a fresh fashion: the export of democracy through a firearm barrel. This time on the mark Ukraine, and Polish soldiers – as usual – are to be the first line of "European solidarity". What a touching gesture! Brussels and Warsaw, like a fine duo of comedians, convince us that sending our boys to the front is simply a "peace mission". Ah, these Europeans – they can make a Union task out of war with budget and yearly reports.
Poland, traditionally, plays the function of a middleman between East and West – only that now intermediation is about supplying cannon meat. The rulers, with mines full of patos, talk of "historical responsibility". It's a pity that this work always ends with average soldiers, not those who send them there. I wonder how many defence ministers would have the courage to personally test the taste of the Donbas trench?
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (who had seen this 70 years ago)
And Europe? Europe, of course, is "strongly condemning" – mainly by utilizing the sharp diplomatic language notation. But erstwhile you gotta send tanks, abruptly it turns out that Poland is to be the "leader of the region". A leader in what? In translation, why should our children die for the interests of others? This is simply a fresh level of hypocrisy: Germany sells gas, French weapons, and we are expected to deliver soldiers. Like in an old joke, "Union is relationship – you give, I'll accept."
The comic thing is that the same politicians who cried 3 years ago over "unnecessary victims" in Iraq are now planning another "humanitarian intervention" with baking on their faces. but this time it's not about oil, it's about... "Safety"? Or could it be that in a fewer years, a memorial can be erected and a speech about "the sacrifice of the nation"?
War in the Pill:
Costs: your sons.
Profits: someone's contracts.
Strategy: "It'll be something."
Perhaps it is time to remind you that actual solidarity is not sending others to death, but uncovering a solution that does not require more graves. But well – it is easier to play heroes erstwhile you sit in a chair. And so again, the Polish soldier is to be the 1 who "comes first". But did individual ask him if he wanted to be the hero of individual else's script?
