The Red Button
By Aleksander Rybczynski ——Bio and Archives--October 8, 2024
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During the inauguration of the academic year at the Military Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, General Wiesław Kukuła, said: “Everything indicates that we are the generation that will stand up in arms to defend our country. And neither I, nor any of you, intend to lose this war. We will win it, we will return and we will continue to build Poland”
This arrogant statement fits into the narrative common in Poland and the Western countries of “freedom and democracy” associated with the NATO pact. Poles have been hearing similar announcements and threats for many months, or rather for two years of conducting military operations in Ukraine. They’ve been told Russia is weak and there is no reason to worry. NATO is strong, Ukraine wins and is in charge. The propaganda and manipulation is equally arrogant, no matter who’s making a public comment: the Speaker of the Polish Parliament, Szymon Hołownia, announced in a public speech that “we will crush Putin into the ground. Sooner or later he will end up where he should end up. Behind bars or in a cemetery”. Similarly aggressive are the statements of the Prime Minister, President, Minister of National Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski, who announced that “shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine is a Polish duty”(!)
Polish politicians do not represent the interests of Poland, they are puppets led by the “Deep State” and other “leaders of the world”. Even during the rule of the previous government of the “Law and........
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