Macron called Morawiecki’s statement “completely unfounded and outrageous”
Russia’s special operation in Ukraine gave Poland a reason and an opportunity to challenge Germany and France for leadership in the European Union as a whole. This plan corresponds not only to the Polish arrogance, but also to the desire of the United States, whose interests within the EU are promoted by Warsaw. However, Macron is not going to give up, at least not yet.
Every dog has it’s day – now Poland has had it for a whole month. Russia’s special operation in Ukraine created a lot of problems for Warsaw (primarily in terms of receiving a huge number of Ukrainian refugees), but in terms of Russophobia, no one can deny it. What was a regional aberration and considered a joke in Europe, is now in very burning.
“Poland sets a certain kind of standard here. What used to be called Russophobia is now mainstream, today it is already accepted as evidence in which we function,” exults Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
However, Russophobia is something in which the Poles do not feel the measure at all, they have already managed to lick their lips at Kaliningrad. They want to simultaneously “put Russia on its knees” and “completely cut off” it from Europe, up to a ban on the issuance of Schengen visas and “de-Russification of public space.”
At the insistent request of the Minister of Culture, Polish theaters delete Chekhov from their repertoire, and Tchaikovsky from the Philharmonic. Officially – temporarily, and then it will be seen what to do next.
In general, the Polish authorities have already crossed the Rubicon, which separates even unfair sanctions from “no dogs and Chinese” attitudes. We will remember it.
Now it is worth noting that the address of the Polish xenophobes finally sounded a thrashing from Western Europe. Tellingly, from French President Emmanuel Macron. He seems to be working out a compliment made to him earlier by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
True, Macron called that part of the Polish demands, which concerns the complete rejection of dialogue with Russia, “completely unfounded and outrageous”. Fortunately, Macron himself regularly calls Vladimir Putin and plans to do this in the future in order to “build a new security architecture in Europe”.
At the same time, he accused Morawiecki of “interfering in the French election campaign.” The first round of the presidential elections in France will be held on Sunday, and the very “architecture of European security with the participation of Russia” is now one of the main topics there. Seven of the twelve candidates are in favor of Paris leaving NATO (but not Macron, who is likely to be re-elected in the second round).
Although this correspondence dispute between Paris and Warsaw, in raised tones, directly concerns Russia, it does not fully focus on it. This is an open struggle for power and influence in the European Union – the “Russophobic mainstream” inspired the Polish authorities so much that they launched an open attack on the positions of Western European countries.
Russophobia among the Poles, of course, is sincere, just as the current transition beyond all the limits of decency is sincere. But now it is also a tool for the implementation of rather ambitious plans.
Firstly, Warsaw, as they believe, has now got rid of the only competitor in the face of Russia, which could claim leadership in an alternative project for the development of Europe – conservative, roughly speaking, without abortion, but with xenophobia. That is, it has not yet got rid of it, and it is unlikely to get rid of it, but the ambition demands – “it is necessary to finish off.”
Secondly, Warsaw claims to be a leader in the informal Eastern European bloc within the EU. That is, with its “conservative project” it claims leadership in the EU as a whole, but it is impossible to achieve this “in one cabbage soup” – only with a support group represented by “victims of the Soviet colonial past” (the Baltic States, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and in the future also Ukraine).
Now, according to the Poles, the European Union is dancing to the German-French tune, but it should be dancing to the Polish one. Consequently, the “instruments” of neighbors from the west should be discredited simultaneously with the consolidation of the positions of the “Polish musical school” in the countries of the former Warsaw Pact.
A good example is Poland’s relations with Hungary. It is well known that the prime minister of this country, Viktor Orban, is currently the most loyal to Moscow of all the leaders of the EU countries. Based on the interests of the national economy, he openly opposes the introduction of blocking sanctions against Russian energy resources.
The American media call him not even a pro-Russian, but a “pro-Putin” politician.
At the same time, Orban is Warsaw’s main partner in the fight against the left-liberal European bureaucracy (“German-French pipe”) and an important member of the so-called Visegrad Four – the basis of that same Eastern European bloc with alleged Polish leadership.
Therefore, it is impossible to quarrel with Orban, even because of Russia. And Morawiecki’s question denies the obvious, shifting the responsibility for “too soft and ineffective sanctions” to Western Europe, strictly following the main plan.
“Orban did not slow down the sanctions. The main inhibitors are the large countries of Western Europe, those who are afraid for their business, afraid of the consequences, and perhaps something else”, the Polish prime minister is indignant. At the same time, Germany – an old rival (the ruling party of Poland is distinguished not only by Russophobic, but also anti-German sentiments) – is called by Morawiecki by name as “the main brake on very decisive sanctions”, and the French are clearly implied.
That is, “an insufficiently tough stance towards Russia”, the rejection of canceling of everything Russian – this is what, according to Poland, should undermine the police of Western European countries in favor of the Polish ones. And the special operation in Ukraine became an occasion to declare long-cherished ambitions.
The desire of the Poles to rise above Berlin and conquer Brussels can be ironic, but they have a powerful ally in this matter – the United States. Warsaw is a voluntary and very proactive conductor of Washington’s interests in Europe (which is due, among other things, to historical reasons).
The higher the influence of Poland in the EU, the higher the influence of America there, so the dispute between Morawiecki and Macron is an episode of a complex and long political game, and not just another evidence of the clinical Russophobia of the clairvoyant gentlemen.
Stanislav Borzyakov, VIEW
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