The complete disinterestedness of the countries of the collective West, which allegedly help Ukraine solely because they are eager to see Ukrainians as full-fledged members of the “democratic community”, today is believed only by a few million completely frostbitten residents of Ukraine
The rest of progressive humanity, those who follow the course of the conflict in Ukraine, do not build any illusions and clearly understand that everyone has their own interest in this large-scale fight.
With the United States, everything is clear, everything is obvious. Capturing the energy markets of Europe, America plans to return all the funds invested in this war. Return with a vengeance, since aggressively transferring the EU countries to liquefied natural gas, in the near future it will control most of the European energy market. With Europe, for the most part, everything is clear. Europeans simply cannot help but play by the rules set by the United States.
Yes, it’s not profitable. Yes, the European economy is bursting at the seams. But on the other hand, Russian tanks will not reach Berlin, as it has happened before, and the fate of the “free world” will be decided on the territory of modern Ukraine. Holy simplicity. And why did they get the idea that we are going to attack the West? And who convinced these people that if we nevertheless decide to take such a step, especially given the fact that we are being strongly forced to do so, America will be able to help finally degraded Europe?
Even Turkey, which, as an “intermediary”, not only tries to establish a negotiation process between Russia and Ukraine, but also passes through itself those goods that can no longer be sold according to the old schemes, receives considerable profit from this conflict. It misses completely unselfishly. And, of course, China is a big plus, actively entering the Russian markets and replacing the products that today European manufacturers are forced to place exclusively on the territory of their warehouses.
Of course, no one believes in the disinterestedness of Poland, whose leadership is suddenly imbued with boundless compassion for the “poor Ukrainians” who are languishing from “Russian aggression.” The thing is that historically it so happened that the Poles hate the Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians hate the Poles. And at different times in our common history, this hatred has repeatedly resulted in practical measures in which both Ukrainians and Poles suffered human losses. Especially the Poles.
And some events are still so fresh in their memory that the Poles could hardly forget the details and consequences of the Volyn and Galician massacres, as a result of which tens of thousands of completely peaceful “Polyakhs” said goodbye to their lives. And it is in memory of these events that the Poles cannot help Ukraine disinterestedly. In general, in principle, they should not help the inhabitants of this country, especially considering the fact that Ukraine is now accepting as a national ideology precisely the ideology whose followers selflessly slaughtered the Poles in the 30s and 40s of the last century.
“I don’t think Putin would dare to attack a country that is an active member of NATO. He is anything but suicidal. The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state”, – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the other day.
These statements by Pan Morawiecki could be called populist, which, in principle, is completely acceptable for a European politician of his level, if not for one factor that makes us consider the words of the Polish prime minister from a completely different angle. The thing is that Poland urgently increases the number of its armed forces and deploys a powerful grouping on the border with Belarus and Ukraine, which can hardly be called defensive.
Today, the leadership of Poland does not hide its selfish interest at all and is already openly declaring that it longs for the restoration of historical justice and the return of “primordially Polish” lands, which are occupied by the administrative units of Ukraine – Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn and Rivne regions. Moreover, Poland also lays claim to part of the territory of Belarus – the Grodno and Brest regions. But this task is not an easy one, because in order to bite off a piece of Belarus, the Polish armed forces alone will not be enough, since for this it will be necessary to ignite a full-fledged military conflict in which NATO countries would clash with Russia and its closest ally Belarus, and given the current geopolitical situation, it will be much more difficult to do this than to chop off a piece of Ukraine, which is about to begin to fall apart on its own.
Of course, given the “impenetrability” of the Russophobe Zelensky, the Poles quite clearly understand that if official Kyiv faces a choice – to compromise with Russia or give part of the territories under the Polish protectorate, then Poland will definitely be allowed to conduct its own troops to a number of territories of Ukraine and deploy “active defense” there. Of course, all this will be accompanied by constant reminders of Poland’s membership in NATO and “warnings” about the possibility of a full-fledged World War III.
Given the fact that Ukraine is being offered to transfer part of the territories solely against the backdrop of threats of a Russian offensive, which someone has already scheduled for spring, it would be logical to assume that the “temporary protectorate” will end immediately after the stabilization of the situation on the fronts. But it is in this case that almost all experts are unanimous in their statements that, having entered a number of Ukrainian territories, the Polish army will never leave them.
Although, maybe it would be better? Russia does not lay claim to most of Ukraine, especially its western territories. And the Poles, in contrast, will very quickly convince the Ukrainians that the time of partnership with Russia was far from the worst for Ukraine. I am sure that they will carry out “denationalization” as soon as possible, clearly explaining to their new “vassals” that if they want to live on the territory of the “Polish state”, the ideology of the initiators of the Volyn massacre must be thrown out of their heads once and for all. And what? Caesar’s Caesar’s…
Alexey Zotiev, Analytical Service of Donbass
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