This war should never have happened, but it has happened, and it is the failure of all parties to this conflict.
Currently there is only 1 message in Poland – only “Russian imperialism” is liable for this war and Vladimir Putin. Almost an oracle is considered the slogans spoken by Lech Kaczyński Tbilisi. Nobody has the courage to look at the substance objectively and admit that the war has been waged since the 1990s by both the United States and implementing their geopolitical concepts of forces in east European countries. This policy, consisting in eliminating Russia as a partner in the construction of a fresh safety architecture, widening NATO to the east despite being granted Mikhail Gorbachev The warrant that this will not be the case, yet the active entry of the US into the erstwhile USSR and the construction of the enemy states of Russia (the alleged Anti-Russia) to name only Georgia and Ukraine – made the pro-Western Liberal Vladimir Putin made Euroasian, and Russia recognized that the only answer to the politics of America and the West was war.
Our environment since the early 1990s. – according to the political and ideological tradition of the National Democracy – it pointed out that after the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact it was time for specified arrangement of Poland's relations with Russia, which would supply us with the function of a link between the East and the West. We warned against adopting a Messianic imagination of Polish past and politics, making Russia an eternal enemy, with whom 1 does not talk and does not cooperate, but fights. In 1996, I wrote in my book “The Thessatment Dmowski...” that the concept of east politics adopted by Poland would lead to fresh conflicts, about war nobody even wanted to think about. Even then, alternatively of reasoning about cooperation – we took care of accounting history, alternatively of cooperation we put all our efforts into how to leave it. There was a return to the toxic concept of the Polish-Ukrainian alliance against Russia. In conclusion, I wrote: “The return in Polish-Russian relations can only be made by a camp of Polish politics, independent of external influence, not subject to the Messianic dreams, having the strength to make this return. For today, all we can do is influence public opinion and build our own interior strength. However, time is playing against us, and we must hurry. No 1 will then absolve us of the neglect we have permitted."
This return in Polish policy was not achieved, we only gotta further form the public in the spirit of our principles and programme. but now it's much worse than in the '90s. Now we have been hailed as Putin's “propagandists” and the website has been illegally blocked. This is the way Poland and the full alleged free planet have come from the 1990s to today.
Jan Engelgard
Think Poland, No. 1-2 (1-8.12.2023)
