In the fall of the Polish People's Republic there is simply a deficiency of strategical reasoning skills. This was the prerogative of Moscow received by People's Poland.
Polish elites were educated at the operational and tactical level but not in independent goal-setting. due to the fact that reality resists action, not all action leads to a goal. That is why a good choice of measures is simply a sign of political realism and realism in general.
Trans-Atlantic
Public discourse reveals that Polish political elites most frequently do not separate between objectives and means. "Analises of modern symptoms of political betrayal made Prof. Andrzej Nowak in May 2024 at the 2nd Krakow Good Book Kiermash. In his speech he presented in the form of a study a policy towards Russia in 2007-2015 and continued since the end of 2023 by Donald Tusk and Radosław Sikorski. He described it as a betrayal of the Republic – a state betrayal. He ruthlessly summarized their pro-Russian and at the same time anti-American – thus aimed at the very core of Poland's safety interests – actions [...] He described Putin's servient treatment and disregard, turning distant from Ukraine. He presented Tusk's reset in collaboration with Putin, including turning distant from the strategy of building the energy independency of Lech Kaczyński, or stopping talks with Americans about the rocket shield [...] In the further passage, Nowak says that betrayal is nothing new. Something fresh in Polish politics is the extremist denial of reality [...] Nowak's lecture concludes with the question: what will modern defence against treason be in 2024? It should be a defence of fact and a final trial with traitors. Many marketers experienced specified a trial during the Kościuszko insurrection. Today, the fact must be defended against lying at all costs, the reality from untrueness" (G. Łasinski, “Stupidity and impugnation in modern Polish society. Symptoms, causes, consequences” (2024, p. 163).
The message by Nowak, summarized by Łasiński, shocks the disconnect from the reality. What would it be to follow Putin or to turn distant from Ukraine? The reset described was not inspired by Putin by the thought of local traitors, but by the implementation of the policy of coordinated Europe by the President's administration Baraka Obama.The presumption that pro-Russianism must be anti-American is simply a negation of cooperation between Russia and the US dating back to the civilian War (1861–1865), continued during planet War I and during the Stalinist industrialisation period. besides conducted during planet War II and undertaken after the dissolution of the USSR during the alleged Yeltsinian sadness and broken down only due to the nationalization by Putin of natural resources of Russia. The abolition of the "cold war" period and its recognition with "reality" is at least unimportant in a professional historian. The "patriotic" diversification has now ended with a change in the direction of supplies and an increase in their prices. And that's barely a safety boost. In the perspective, it can be even worse for energy safety with "green governance".
Children of PRL
If the extremist denial of reality is to be the "pro-Russian and anti-American action – thus aimed at the very core of Poland's interests", then political ontology Nowaka is about harming Russia and serving America, which is expected to be the same. What does that gotta do with reality? The realisation of Poland's interest should be a strategical objective. Pro-Russian or pro-American politics can be means. What is the link between these measures and the strategical objective? Let me remind you: reality resists and verifies the proposed measures. We will not find any answers to this question in Nowak and his like intellectuals. For them, the tool, in this case revealed to them (by whom?) pro-Americanism, is the goal of Poland – simply.
What would happen if you turned a pro-American vector into a speech? Prof. Ryszard Legutki from talking to Jan Maciejewski The pro-Russian vector? "This sympathy for Europeans and strong aversion to sovereignty shows that the elite of the Polish opposition, as well as their supporters, want to satisfy themselves with the function of governors, Brussels subcontractors or German projects, and they derive a sense of pride [...]. So frequently it has been in our past – either we are hitting on the nation to emergence up, or we are acting as governors like Wielopolski or politicians from Galicia. any people want freedom, sovereignty until the failure of life, others do not want it, due to the fact that they fear it, or want to gain money from it" ("Polish soul suffers from micromania", "Networks", 2023, no. 49). Of course, there would be a "success of reality", specified as allegedly happened in the case of Wielopolski, or Krakow's bran. The function of American governors is highly patriotic, but Brussels or German governors are traitors.
The core of the intellectual disgrace of Nowak and Legutka is the inability to specify the goal independently, as something different from the proposed measures, namely the inability to political realism. Politics in their concept is simply a confession of faith, not a strategy. Being a purely intellectual phenomenon, it is simply a patriotic increase in feelings in pro-American patriots and the deficiency of specified an increase in "Brixselians" and "Russian onuc". These 2 reactions to the pedagogy of shame served to Poles are fundamentally intellectual alternatively than political problems. "The children of the Polish People's Republic are building a future for us bounded by their complexes, 1 that does not match the aspirations of a developed European country. (...) The key to knowing these behaviours – although they besides have longer historical roots – is the inferiority complex towards the outside world. People of the Polish Peoples were ashamed of the country in which they lived... Most of these weaknesses were to be – as was told by Poles – a direct consequence of Polish identity – besides Catholic, patriotic and nationalistic. Poland must so change as a model of the most prosperous countries of the West and without murmuring by copying the solutions there. (...) The attitudes of inferiority and submission have become the foundation of the public life of the 3rd Polish Republic. The form of Poland after 1989 was determined by people deep down mentally in PRL" (K. Kołodziejski, “Children of Peerel”, Network, 2024, nr 15). This is not treated by a confession of religion in the United States proposed by a patriot camp only in a psychiatrist or in a confessional.
A naive policy
Konrad Kołodziejski (born 1970) as if he had forgotten that he was besides born in People's Poland and seemingly disengaged from its influence. It's as if only the organization nomenclatura was yielding to them, but not the opposition enlightened by the West. It is simply a complete fiction. I myself was born in 1974 and remember how much Western goods were wanted in PRL: from clothes and cars to music and movies. I remember that it was PRL who sold this West to Poles showing American westerns on TV, or organizing yearly Jazz Jamboree. In the end, the CIA not only enabled the colorful revolution of "Solidarity", but yet won the information war with the Warsaw Pact, convincing the USSR elite to dissolve the state and the full block (see P. Schweizer, "Victory, or victory", 1994). Therefore, the unprecedented accomplishment of Poles' conviction that they have a common goal with Americans was not a major problem. utilizing movies from Clint Eastwood and these akin tools were done so effectively that any inactive confuse Polish patriotism with American patriotism, or – worse inactive – patriotism with another people's economical interests.
A summary by the Council on abroad Relations (CFR) is simply a real bucket of cold water. "The CFR study stresses that the main origin of the collapse of the russian Union was the application of economical blockade to it. Since the US has cut the main economical relation between the USSR and the world, this has led the USSR to the inability to get goods, capital, technology, information and talent from the planet market. As a result, the USSR and all east Europe were squeezed into a limited economical niche. Gradually, the U.S. strangled russian economical activity to bring the country down in the final phase." (S. Hongbing, “The War for Money”, Vol. 5: “Deciding Start”, 2020, p. 30). Do the intellectuals specified as Nowak and Legutki consider the American "putting into economical niche" and the "suffocation of economical activity" to be the nucleus of the Polish interest, or simply ignore that what Americans compose for their own usage is different from the American message for Poles. The degree of orientation in these messages among the organization elites of power, information services and democratic opposition of the Polish People's Republic was seemingly different. The subject awaits its author. 1 can discuss which committee was better found in the 3rd Republic of Poland. However, no of these groups were able to specify the national interest and the Polish state's right. This yet burdens People's Poland: the way it selects the elite and the way it teaches them by the Berlin reforms. But there is no dispensation for the opposition, who with all naivety bought her sold narrative. It has the political roots of ontology, which prof. Andrzej Nowak and others professed.
A political nation?
In Polish political thought, it was not accidental to dominate and dominate the geopolitical concept that was built on the romerist alsos that Poland, due to its possible and central position, should become the stronghold of the military-economic alliance of Central European countries (Inter-mortal). specified a geopolitical block would supply comparative safety for its members and Poland would besides be prestigious and crucial in global relations. NATO, following its enlargement to the countries of Central Europe, is applying this concept. In Poland, usually (and wrongly – as he noted late in the pages “MP” Olaf Swolkień) bearing the description ‘Gedroycia – Mieroszewski Doctrine’. Indeed, it is closer to Adolf Bocheński (1909-1944). This pro-German politician advocated utilizing independent Ukraine to break up the russian Union (Russia). If we take into account the fact that Germany is present a politically dependent country and acting under the mandate of the USA, we will be given an accurate explanation of Poland's function in the war in Ukraine. Therefore, most likely Bocheński is just published and even editing of his collected works began. The difference is that Bocheń's alliance of Poland with the overseas state was considered absurd and did not even consider it. There are besides indications that the pro-German orientation was yet regarded as a mistake.
It should be crucial for Polish policy to see why specified dominance of homerism has occurred, i.e. the "bridge" knowing of Poland's function over vacarism, i.e. the usage of a transit position between Europe and Asia. Poland has not become a transport hub, a key hub of the European trade network, and it is not rich on that due to the fact that it did not enter into Anglo-Saxon geopolitics. It is not about integrating the Continent, but about sharing it by controlling its coast (nota bene a belt of the oldest civilizations of mankind: Babylon, Persia, India, China, etc.). This is what Britain did, controlling Europe (a policy of supporting the weaker against the dominant on the Continent), the Mediterranean, the mediate East, India, Malaya and Singapore, and China. The attempts by Germany to conquer this dominance led to 2 planet wars. We're surely not stronger than Germany.
"We know that historically, states that control the seas have built power since the 16th century, and countries that had the advanced hand in controlling the land have weakened. This phenomenon occurred due to the fact that global trade routes gradually moved from land to sea and oceans, and only sea states could keep control of trade routes. He who controls global trade routes is capable of directing the flow of global wealth. For this reason, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands, then the United Kingdom, and present the United States were and are empires of the sea, during their hegemony land states were losing importance" (S. Honbing, Ibid., p. 206).
One of these countries was, unfortunately, the Republic of Both Nations. According to Jakub Woziński, the decline of continental routes from the Black Sea to Europe on which the cities specified as Lviv, Kraków or Sandomierz lay and prospered, and the acquisition of control of Baltic trade (Gdansk) by maritime states (see the cycle: “From the mouth of the Vistula to the Black Sea. Commercial and economical background of Polish history). The remainder was made by the current policy, which is the main focus of Polish historiography. The impact of global trade routes on the economy in Poland and Europe is seldom addressed. And the only policy that understands its meaning seems to be, considered highly controversial, Grzegorz Braun.
It's easy!
In Anglo-Saxon geopolitics, Poland will always be the front wall of the Coast, the east flank of NATO, as it is now, or the front wall of the Continent, as it was during the PRL. Depending on the current strategy of forces. But he will never be a link. "When we look at the map, we see that Eurasia is the largest area in the world.[...] This large continent has all the essential attributes to dominate the world, so in the case of its integration it will be hard to compete with it. The geopolitical situation of America in the fresh age will become its drawback and gradually this continent will become a peripheral enclave" (S. Hongbing, Ibid., p. 209).
This is the economical integration of China's fresh Silk Road project. "This fresh circular of globalisation will lead to an unprecedented Euro-Asian single market. The countries of Asia and Europe will thus become the largest beneficiaries, and China as the creator and organizer of high-speed railways will besides accomplish unprecedented geopolitical benefits in history" (ibid.). It is clear that the Anglo-Saxons will counter this with all their forces, including Polish forces. Europe will be torn distant from Asia at any cost and Poles can become its main contributor alongside Ukrainians. It is simple – as Roman Dmowski explained, the orientation to Russia alternatively than central states.
I'm not saying that proatlantic politics must be abandoned. I say that in Poland we request a pro-Russian, pro-Russian and pro-continental option. This is what Polish state, common sense and honest patriotism require. For 1 thing, to choose from and not to be condemned to confess the influences of narration that abroad people have. Especially erstwhile the confession of Catholicism leaves in Poland to be lame, making area for all religions. The past of Poland is most disincentive to inter-mortar, foreground, Baltic-Black Sea Bridge policies, or, God forbid, to Jack Bartosiak's "development of operating depth" policy. The transit concept seems much more encouraging in all respect.
If we number actual production alternatively than GDP, China is now the world's largest economy, as it has been until the end of the 18th century, we have not known how long. Shares in global control counted according to the method* of the Polish cyber school in February 2025 amounted to: People's Republic of China – 26.3%, United States of America – 13.4%, Japan – 8.9%, Russian Federation – 7.9%, Germany and Austria – 5.9%, India – 3.5%, UK – 2.9%, Republic of Korea – 2.9%, Ukraine – 2.7%, France – 2.4%. The remainder of the planet has 23.2% of the remaining controls. It can be said that the planet has returned to its “factory arrangements”. The geopolitical situation, in which the Polish State was created a 1000 years ago, may so be reborn.
Vladimir Kowalik
*J. Kossecki, “The technological Basics of Nationalism”, Warsaw 2015, p. 190
Think Poland, No. 29-30 (20-27.07.2024)
