On the Internet, I found the polemics of Sławomir Mentzen and Robert Winnicki with Janusz Korwin Mikke. JKM stood in the position that the most Russia is attacking states promoting all moral decay against which Russia is to defend.
Both younger politicians, in turn, claim that Russia itself is simply a state engulfed in all moral rot in the form of unlimited abortion, alcoholism, corruption and the demolition of civilian and economical freedoms. Mentzen concludes from this that it is essential to supply weapons attacked by Russia Ukraine, due to the fact that otherwise Poland would be attacked by Russia. As the above results from the background of the polemics is the war in Ukraine, and its participants kind of place their sympathy on the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
For the time being, I am in the political circles of the Confederates, so I care very much about this polemic. Unfortunately, I consider it a fundamental misunderstanding, both sides. The perception of war in Ukraine from the position of "good" or "bad" Russia is the core of this misunderstanding. The war in Ukraine must be seen primarily from the point of Polish national interest. For the Polish national interest it is not a substance of prime importance or Russia as a state and society is steeped in moral decay. Let us besides add that Ukraine is not little permeated by these plagues than Russia, and this is the scourge of Nazism in the form of the CNS-UPA ideology, which is already peculiarly dangerous from the Polish point of view.
So the primary issue is the impact of the war on Poland in Ukraine. Both JKM polemics seem to have the same view as the PiS and PO, which boils down to the fact that supporting Ukraine protects Poland's independence. This view must be considered entirely wrong. Unfortunately, Poland is not an independent state. Moreover, almost all day events take place, which make the degree of Polish engagement in this war deepen this state of independence.
For the sake of clarity, I request to explain what I consider essential for Poland to regain independence. At this phase of the improvement of interstate policy, what happened in 1918, i.e. the failure and disintegration of all forces that find that Poland is not independent. If Russia had broken up in the next fewer years and the European Union had broken up at the same time, including Germany would no longer be the dominant state in this arrangement, and the US, as a consequence of interior problems, would cease to have a powerful influence on our part of Europe, conditions would arise for Poland to regain independence.
I don't think it's a utopian assumption. The various political, social, demographic and economical processes that have been going on for decades are moving in this direction. Wars, but with a certain scope and character, can accelerate these processes. It is essential for Poland to strengthen its possible in these wars. This applies especially to the current war in Ukraine. At this point I find no analogy in the past of Poland. An analogy is the policy pursued by Tomasz G. Masaryk in the years of planet War I, which comes primarily to winning the interstate situation and strengthening its own possible without bleeding out besides much in the war, unless the Czechoslovak interest requires it. Let us add that Masaryk's policy has yielded better results for Czechoslovakia than Dmowski and Piłsudski's policy taken together for Poland, of course being aware of the difference in all conditions. The policy presently pursued by the Polish government is simply a complete denial of Masaryk's policy and, I repeat, it deepens the state of independence.
Given what I have presented above, it would be best if neither Russia nor Ukraine won the war. Russia's triumph could indeed pose a real threat to Poland. For Poland, as a consequence of the current commitment, after this economically exploited war, marginalized and internally politically ruined. In turn, Ukraine's win makes Poland an addition to this Ukraine, any territorially Polish-Ukrainian condominium, politically managed by the USA and economically managed by Germany. 1 situation and the another makes the chances of independency go away. If Russia and Ukraine do not win the war, then we are dealing with weakening both countries to an degree that does not let them to conduct policies threatening Poland's position, or even giving Poland a chance to gain any chance to regain its subjectivity.
It's in the east. It stays west. presently Poland's deficiency of independency is mainly a dependency on the US and the European Union. It is simply a tragedy for me that most of the Polish society considers this condition to be most desirable. In any dimensions, nothing has changed since the partitions and the PRL period. We absorb everything – and it is uncritical – from the West, at the same time disdaining and treating everything from the East in advance. We have not created through culture, a strategy of social values, or even a political strategy of methods that allows us to absorb, on the 1 hand, what as a nation develops us and to a higher level increases our individuality and identity, and on the another hand, which gives us the ability to choice and reject everything that has made and makes us a European nation of the second category, badly ruled, pursuing better, but having small chance to catch up with them, more imitating values than authentically creating them.
I am not certain if this is an authorized statement, but the symbol of this possibly even civilizational failure is the ruin which present is the position of the Catholic Church with its moral message and in Polish tradition an equally crucial model of the family, form of culture, social relations and political order in the state. From this perspective, the question arises whether in specified a state of society will be what to build independency from, if in any time there is simply a political crisis?
Andrzej Szlezak
