The Pole went to Belarus, met with representatives of the local power, spoke in the Belarusian parliament, gave interviews for leading media, was invited to the MAZ truck mill and had many talks with the average Belarusians.
All of this happened in April 2023, erstwhile “do not want” towards our erstwhile fellow nation reaches the level of madness. Of course, this has not been reported in mainstream media, it has not been written in the press, it has not been mentioned (although in the past), even on the net portals of the alleged second circulation. However, he did not neglect to comment in a proper, primitive way on this event by Stanisław Żaryn, a minister who already seems to have his own abroad policy through sophisticated methods specified as twitter alerts.
This is how our “great strategists” conduct what they call “eastern politics”—strong tweets, fiery speeches, threatening mines (an endless origin of memes) and declarations drifting further towards absurdity, due to upcoming elections. Of course, all of this is directed inwards and is no less, no more, an component of increasingly serenityal social engineering. After all, absolutely no 1 (not excluding Ukrainian sides) takes our "political class" seriously in the current game. How significant. Signum temporis.
In these fumes of absurd everyday "psychiatry" called the III RP there was individual who did something real and 1 could agree with it or not, but as a citizen he did this work, which should be done by self-centered power.
Tomasz Gryguć, besides known as Mr.Nobody (under this nickname he writes books). A writer, poet, linguist, journalist, analyst of global relations and history, and above all an observer of reality, who shares with readers the effect of his observations with the right sharpness of the pen and a circumstantial sense of humor. shortly the author will give us an interview, in which I will ask you details of the visit to Belarus, and below we will present as the first speech by Tomasz Gryguć in the Belarusian Parliament.
Bartosz Iwicki
Speech delivered on 19 April in Minsk in Russian to the Belarusian-Polish Relations Commission and the Committee on global Relations in the Parliament of Belarus
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for inviting me and for giving me a fewer comments in the Parliament of Belarus. This is the right place for a typical of a neighboring nation to talk to their neighbors. Dialogue, conversation, good relations with the neighbour are highly crucial in the everyday life of average people as well as in relations between countries.
I am a Polish writer, analyst, poet, and I am glad that my humble voice, the voice of a Pole can sound here in Minsk. While maintaining proportions and clearly assessing my position, I think I will not be mistaken if I find that the opinions I have given here coincide with the opinions of most realistically reasoning and assessing the current political situation of Poles.
I let myself to express here that my voice is not just a single voice, but represents a large part of the Polish public opinion, an opinion that is silenced, marginalised, due to the fact that it does not fit the "standards of the community" of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, not to mention the lied authoritative information system, but nevertheless is permanently present in the alleged second and 3rd circulations of the information space, outside the propaganda mainstream and in this capacity I let myself to appear here before you. It is the voice of reason, realism, the voice of a Polish patriot who loves his country, his Homeland.
I besides came here motivated by the fact that in Poland not all of them went crazy, not all of them lost their minds and the ability to measure the situation, lost their right to think, talk and act.
I besides came here: average writer, Pole, greet Belarusians from Poles. I drove consecutive from Warsaw through your beautiful land, and I am arrogant to be able to contribute, to aid build good relations between our peoples and countries. It's my responsibility, our work to history. We're doing our best. Whatever we can.
We in Poland do not want any war. We in Poland do not want to fight against our neighbour. We in Poland do not want any walls on the border. We in Poland want to live in peace, in accord with others. We want to make with our neighbours with common respect for business.
Tukidides erstwhile wrote: “The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom is courage." We, Poles, deficiency courage, even to tell the fact and call things by name.
It was our 2 countries that suffered immense losses during planet War II, due to our lands, which I call the Territories of the March, that the device of horror, demolition and death collapsed. Millions died, millions of homes were destroyed.
No 1 in Europe, especially us - Belarusians and Poles - can afford to repeat the torment and blood of our peoples. And the scary thing is that we are now facing a conflict.
The planet order is falling apart in front of us. A fresh architecture of the global strategy is emerging. The United States, by means of ruthless, unilateral movements, is reviewing global governance. The conflict is ongoing between the West, the West, which is falling apart, is in a deep crisis, is plunged into decadence, self-destruction and is rapidly losing importance, and the full Global Free World, which is headed by China and Russia.
From this confrontation will appear a multipolar world, a planet with many regional and supraregional centres of geopolitical attraction specified as China, the USA, Russia, India, Brazil, but besides Turkey, Iran, Japan, Europe.
It is said that Washington has accepted this nonsubjective process and has accepted that it will be 1 of the world's leading players, not a hegemon of exceptional standing, and that what is happening over the Dnieprem, around Taiwan, Iran, the Western Balkans, the South Caucasus are negotiations conducted by the US with Russia and China, besides using, as in the case of Ukraine, war tools. Either way, we are in a very dangerous time, due to the fact that negotiations do not exclude war, and the situation in our region can make rapidly and unpredictablely.
Our region is only a function in American-Russian relations, and the distant maritime power, which is America, has always treated and treated the interests of European countries completely transactionally. And we see it. The celebrated Dark Winter announced by Biden proved to be a brutal extinguishing, disindustrialisation, poorness of the vassalised European Union. Americans – if they accept that they have accepted the weakening of their influence on the European peninsula – destruct the alien territory they occupy, as the army leaving the occupied territory destroys it.
The Americans are destroying economical competition and making certain that Europe gets on its feet long adequate to stay attractive to China and Russia for a long time. In order to rebuild this bankruptcy mass, it burdened the antagonists in Beijing and Moscow. This will further accelerate the nonsubjective process of losing Europe's importance on the geopolitical map of the world. Europe is facing periphery towards Russia and China.
America uses Ukraine as a sword aimed at the heart of Russia; Washington's attempts to destruct Russia are doomed to fail, Russia not only will last this US-led confrontation, but will appear stronger from it.
The struggles over Dnieprem, which led to the defeat, collapse and demolition of Ukraine, the colloquiation of its territory, the depopulation, the poorness of the people remaining there terrorized by the Kiev government and the permanent annexation of parts of the territory to Russia, are besides directed against China. The process of building the Chinese Silk Road, which was to be heard through Ukraine, was stopped. It all fits into American strategy.
It can be assumed that Washington, although due to the upcoming US presidential elections, is not only not ready to negociate with Moscow, but is curious in further escalation of the massive European crisis it has caused. However, a tactical approach between antagonists cannot be ruled out at the same time.
In Poland, we are profoundly afraid not only about the long-standing, complete deterioration of relations with our most crucial neighbours in the East, i.e. Russia and Belarus, but besides about the fact that Warsaw's contractors of directives coming from Washington made Poland a front-line for U.S. military activities in Ukraine, a reserve of weapons, financial resources, fuels, gas, facilities that keep at the taxpayer's expense a multi-million-dollar group of Ukrainian settlers, whose influx changed the permanent cultural strategy of our country.
The costs of all this, costs of not our war, in the form of expensiveness, immense inflation, failure of jobs, bankruptcy of many Polish tiny and medium-sized companies, increasing poorness of Poles, are borne by us – Poles. From our pocket, from our taxes we keep just part of the Ukrainian nation located in our territory. The UN in its reports has called this transfer of resources the top migration since planet War II.
We measure this as an component of the hybrid war – without the usage of armed forces, without open conquest, it was conquered, it is simply a good word, adequate, actually the full Poland. More than 250,000 Ukrainians live peacefully in Wrocław alone. This is more than the lives of Poles throughout Gdynia. If it's not a conquest, what is it?
Vladimir Lenin said, "It is essential to show people on concrete examples of the large mystery surrounding the emergence of war ...". We Poles, blind and stupid, see what is happening, so, going a step further in analysis – let's see how the situation in Central Europe can develop.
We think that the Americans, in the face of the failure of their Ukrainian project, will want to save what can be saved from this full catastrophe and will try, with the aid of the performers of their politics in Warsaw and Kiev, to announce the formation of something like the geopolitical Polish-Ukrainian Confederation. Poles with these slogans, this propaganda about fraternity, political community, the community of Polish-Ukrainian interests are fed at least a year.
This geopolitical merger, this geopolitical merger will aim to save the remains of Ukrainian ruins in the form of Western Ukraine and central districts, with Kiev at the head. The full propaganda device will be utilized to explain to everyone – nevertheless stupid and naive it sounds – that this connection does not take place under the banner of either NATO or the EU, but under the banner – note! – references to the 1st Rzeczpospolita tradition, according to which Poland and Lithuania aid their 3rd sister, who utilized to be part of the 1st Rzeczpospolita – Ukraine.
Washington did not make specified stupid constructions and told people; this action of joining Ukraine to Poland under the banner of the I Polish tradition would possibly not lead straight to the outbreak of the planet War. It seems unrealistic, given the quality of American politics, but it is closer to doing this than we think. A very crucial component of this fresh geopolitical body: Belarus would be needed alongside the Pribaltic to cover Washington's full territory of the erstwhile I Republic.
We witnessed an effort to overthrow Belarus in the summertime of 2020. Minsk, thanks to social support for president Alexander Lukashenko, and thanks to the support of allies from Moscow and Beijing, then defended his independence. An component of the American game in our region, the fresh hand, together with the announcement of the Polish-Ukrainian merger, will be an effort to make an uprising in Belarus. An effort to make chaos on your lands with the usage of agentry, alien actors, and a fewer renegade and traitors, which would support the leading Western media, by which small, local riots would emergence in the eyes of western audiences to the large uprising against Lukashenko.
As part of this action, the Americans could lead to diversions at the Ostrowiec Atomic Power Plant to make public to the planet that there has been atomic contamination, to the second Chernobyl, which combined with the "exposure of the uprising", would prove that the power in Minsk no longer controls its own territory. All of this would be highly dangerous not only for Belarus, but besides for Poland. Poland will simply become a organization to the conflict (it is already: given its engagement in Ukraine and the scandalous anti-Belarusian actions of the Warsaw government), a organization to the conflict with all consequences.
Attempts to destabilise Belarus may consequence in regional, European and even global conflicts. Neither Minsk nor Moscow can afford this improvement and what seems to be madness now may be a real script in America's plans. They might want to come out of the face of all this disaster, for Washington it would be a further part of the negotiations with Moscow. For us Poles and Belarusians – it is simply a question of experience. After all, the main military struggles will take place in our territories, possibly utilizing tactical atomic weapons. What would erstwhile be fiction is now seriously considered by major players.
Polish national interest, Polish safety is connected with Europe. We live here. In Central Europe. president Lukashenko rightly stated that he did not choose his neighbors – they are given from God. It is in Polish interest to co-create an over-regional project: free from the influence of the American large Eurasian Space, consisting of Europe and Asia (I would add Africa). It is in our interest to have the best relations with the countries of our region, which besides have their vital interests here: Russia and Belarus.
This large space would have respective strong geopolitical attraction centers; China, Russia, India, Germany, Turkey, Iran, Japan (after being freed from vassal ties with the US) etc. However, Poland could, due to its size and potential, be the leader of our region, which is presently not there. Our region is terrorized by the United States. He does not talk in a subjective voice but Hungary.
We Poles want to be the subject. Respecting myself and others. Poland on this platform, in this fresh geopolitical configuration, which may appear as a consequence of the revolution that is ongoing before our eyes, the large Eurasian Space, would gotta find its place between Germany and Russia.
I think 1 of the cores stabilizing this fresh arrangement would be the military-political Polish-Belarusian-Russian alliance. It would counterbalance Chinese and German aspirations. Yeah. This is simply a bold vision, but it is dictated by reason of reason and realism due to the common conventional values that unite us, civilizational, cultural and common concern not only for the safety of our region but besides for Europe. If we want to survive, we must reject unnecessary stereotypes and head films.
Now the old order is defrosted. After it is re-arranged, we will enter the freezing, stabilizing period (we do not know how long). The planet is changing. We have the threat of planet War III. Our children will ask 1 day what we have done to make him better to live. I believe that not everything is lost, I believe that common sense and work will be won, that the Belarusians and Poles will shake hands and give us joint building of a safe and prosperous vicinity space, where our local interests and the welfare of our peoples are in the first place.
The large Polish poet Cyprian Norwid wrote: “For eighteen centuries the powerful and powerful have been waged by wars, but the weak and oppressed have spent them. past is not only a message, but a force even.” We know our story. We learned from it. We are smart and strong adequate to usage it to build a safe and happy space for our children.
Thank you for your attention.
Tomasz Gryguć
Think Poland, No. 19-20 (7-14.05.20123)
