Kashtelan Mirmil, managing the celebrated castle of his own name, with all his qualities, was, as is well known, a wicked alternatively than a growth. So he dreamed to be large and strong, to inspire fear and respect in his appearance.
As all readers of the unforgettable comic saga o Kayku and Cocos, this thought succeeded the foreman only half.
Witch Festival
Worse still, Mirmiel became completely unbearable, and the inhabitants of Mirmilov expressed their reservations with a painful sting. The Kashtelan had his customized of lamenting and self-pity, but realizing that he was not dead, began to boast and plant even more and more burdensomely. ‘Big chestnut – it's large trouble“ They sentimentally summarized the mirmial and, as usual, the folk wisdom demonstrated its superiority over the propaganda of leadership. What happened next – not a place to remind, just read Witch Festival, rather adequate to mention, however, that having no greater than ambitious foundations of power Mirmila brought to the castle a deadly danger, the chestnut itself was reduced to the sizes inactive below the first and only the kindness of the previously despised dwarf-people allowed one more time to save Mirmilovo and complete the full conventional communicative in fairy tales happy endem.
Why, though, do you want to refresh your childhood image story? The reason should be the fact that we are all inhabitants of specified Mirmilov today, whose collective chestnut besides acts as if he has discovered the magic elixir of growth, but – he has already applied to it, so he can stand on bulkhead shafts, flaunt himself and taunt his neighbors. Our situation is even worse, that even from our position it is perfectly visible that either those present Jarosław and Matthew Mirmilov They went crazy due to the fact that the greats seem only to themselves, and from the back you can see that they unnecessarily dropped their clothes not their own size sewn – either they are dressed as assassins (including especially Loser...), preparing our provocation and defeat, this 1 surely and objectively great.
Between panic and a dream of power
Without metaphors and literary comparisons the situation looks like this: in February and March 2022, in the first days of Russian operation in Ukraine, among Poles panic broke out. Let's not lie about that now. Yes, it's true, quite a few people threw themselves at the border and continued to the East to bring and aid Ukrainians. But also, even more massively, Russian tanks were immediately behind them. Poles were preparing to flee to the West, checking connections, packing cars, asking relatives and acquaintances on saks to receive even children and old people. This is where the Russian legend came from. Blitzkrieg, as has never been realized, not from the words of the imaginary Putin supporters and Russian trolls. So erstwhile the first shock passed, it naturally came to respond to the original, Panic fear, somewhat resembling the hysteria of the first lockdown. The Mirmiles did not die, so they began to exemplify their greatness, power, power, and courage. Therefore, the primitive propaganda of the imminent Kiev triumph and triumph parades in Red Square, preferably Ukrainian-Polish, proved so effective.
‘This is the second army of the world?! Look at her getting hit by grandmas with jars! Bring them here, specified sons, only we would show them! Where are those who frightened us so much?!” – the same ones call out present in the forums, who wanted to escape from the very image of a Russian tank over Bug yesterday with 1 quilt. And the literary echo brings association again, this time not pictorial... :
‘The dense crowds immediately surrounded the full ward. any looked at the prisoners, others asked, ‘How was it?’ — others won the Swedes.
- Whoa! You're doing good, dog! Do you want to fight Poles? You have Poles now!
— Bring them alone! On their swords! Bigoose!
- Ha, scum! Ha, slobs! Have you tried Polish swords?!’
And only the 1 who was truly in combat would myth:
‘— Gentlemen, don't scream like an appendix, or the prisoners will think you're in war first!“ Mr Skoraszewski said. “ The usual thing is that prisoners are taken during warIt’s okay. ” Yeah, and then there was a surrender under the estuary and so mildly by HenrySienkiewicza described as well as the full betrayal or escape of the armies and authorities of the then Republic. This is what Poles' childhood described Stanisław Cat-Mackiewicz, recalling, among another things, the wobblyness of the Polish policy towards the Cossack uprising, is the constant shift from utmost despair and conviction of the eventual fall of the homeland – to complete self-confidence and blindness, subverted with conviction of its own power of omnipotence.
It's nothing!
No different has been happening for more than 14 months erstwhile panic subsided the tromtadration site. The demanding King, demanding the partitions of the Russian Federation go further than Mr. Zagloba, complaining:
‘— They were on the run! Let Inflanty step down and millions let me to spare their health.
— He caught the Cossack of Tatar and held the Tatar by the head! — More Carolus in Poland, yet Krakow, Warsaw, Poznań and all the prominent cities in his hand, and the father already wants him to occupy himselfIt’s okay. ”
But who would perceive to Skrzetuski? Nothing that nearly 20% of Ukraine's erstwhile territory has been in Russian hands for months or longer. Nothing that does not bring much effort across the West against Russia. Nothing that it is in Russian hands is inactive a strategical initiative, that it is improbable that it will endanger it (too) with a widespread Ukrainian counter-offensive, how many villages would not be occupied as a result. Russia wins this war and inactive has the best prospects to yet win it, but nothing! Our chestnuts feel bigger than any power...
Kiev is worth more to the West than Warsaw
The fact that Russia did not get the pacification of Ukraine during the first months of the specialization is simply a large tragedy, especially for Ukrainians themselves (note to those who do not know Latin or Polish: pacification means peace, not burning a hut). The fact that Russia continues present and effectively resists all Western hegemony, with all tactical failures, leadership errors, and politics – proves how large it inactive has potential, in addition to being highly damaged, due to the fact that consistently implemented by president Vladimir Putin is to wage war in the least burdensome way possible for its own citizens, without shifting the economy to war capitalism and, of course, without universal mobilisation. So how do the Russians win these Mirmila parodys (good and sympathetic despite complexes, erstwhile those in our rudders are real gnomes without characters)?
Ukraine resisted Russia after years of preparation, strong British and American training, bountifully powered by equipment, on pre-built fortifications. Where is all this in the case of Poland? Where are the billions from London and Washington for weapons? Where are the modern, trained, equipped Armed Forces of Poland in their strengthened areas? After all, we do not even have what the Ukrainians have had for years, so why can anyone claim that “we would go even better”? In addition, since the West (and ourselves) sends specified immense support to Kiev – what would be left for us? What do we have for Russia, too the artificially induced sense of our own power? We dream of the power not to remember the fresh horror, and both emotions are just an expression of rooted infantility. But that doesn't mean that the mixes won't be double dangerous.
Let's get down. It's not a comic comic book that always ends well. This is not a fresh for heartwarming. Finally, it is not a poster calling us “Strong. Short. Readyand in addition always “First to Fight!’. Let's halt bragging and threatening. Let's not get hysterical again.
Let's just think. And let's act before it's truly besides late for our Mirmilov...
Konrad Hand
