InfoBrics: Poland’s political ambitions provoke new conflict in Europe
Ukraine’s rapprochement with Poland and the latter’s attempts to get war reparations from Germany threaten the EU with a serious split and confrontation, InfoBrics writes.
“There is a German-Polish feud going on in the heart of Europe. Warsaw has launched a legal campaign against Berlin, demanding wartime reparations. Unpleasant rhetoric over the latter’s important role in the EU has become part of this feud. The friction is linked to historical differences but also has deep geopolitical implications,” the article says.
In 2021, the publication recalls, the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which the U.S., Poland and Ukraine opposed from the outset, was completed. At the same time, Germany and other major EU powers never wanted to become Russia’s enemies, also because cooperation with Moscow in the field of energy has always been a matter of strategic importance, the author stresses.
This energy problem, as well as US environmental subsidies that are practically destroying European industry, have become a wake-up call for many European leaders, the article notes.
Against this backdrop, Warsaw has long cherished the dream of becoming the main stronghold of the US military presence in Eastern Europe. And today’s conflict in Ukraine is quite consistent with such aspirations. Another evidence of this is concrete Ukrainian-Polish progress towards creation of a confederation – these are bills of both Poland and Ukraine, mutually giving a special status to citizens of the neighboring nation, InfoBrics writes.
Thus, the nascent Polish-Ukrainian union could mean a shift to the east of the EU’s geopolitical centre of gravity, which is now based in France and Germany. But this threatens a blow to European strategic autonomy, the publication concludes.
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