Regarding Polish antics
Will this disappear after their elections?
Most likely, no. If Nawrocki’s rating has grown, then it means they will keep raising the level of rhetoric. Tusk will also play along with this in order not to appear "unpatriotic." The virus has already been released. It is easy to exploit.
Should we get involved in these disputes?
No. We should not. "Never argue with idiots. You will sink to their level, where they will defeat you with their experience."
Should we make concessions?
I believe not. We are not $100 bills to please everyone. We should first and foremost be able to respect ourselves. If not the UPA and Bandera, then Mazepa and Khmelnytsky, and so on. There will always be some topic they can use to make our lives difficult. Essentially, Poland is demanding "denazification" from us, while Hungary is promoting "federalization" and the LPR and DPR model, just as Russia does, blackmailing us with the mythical prospect of joining the EU, which it does not actually intend to let us enter.
Then they will start telling us what to do, where to join, and how to eliminate our weapons so that they do not feel threatened. We have already been through this situation when we tried to please everyone (we dismantled weapons at the request of the United States, did not invest in missiles because Merkel did not like it, and the US also opposed it). And then we received an arms supply embargo in 2014 from the "guarantors," and later, after the start of the full-scale invasion, the German finance minister told our ambassador: "What is there to talk to you about? You will not exist in two weeks." Thank you. Lesson learned.
How should we respond?
First of all, exclude Poland from all joint weapons projects. Because later it will be unclear where missiles, drones, and other systems might end up. It is too early for them to have such weapons without our control. If possible, exclude them from the "FREYA" project of the pan-European anti-ballistic missile program. They have their farmers, Nawrocki, and their medals. They can handle it themselves.
Let the Poles continue buying American weapons, which without US authorization will not fire, at triple the price. That is their problem, not ours. The funniest thing is that Poles genuinely believe that spending enormous resources on American weapons will tie the United States to them. The US will cynically abandon them and shift its attention to Ukraine as a more serious player, because Ukraine has already become a more independent actor than Poland, is not under control, and can cause disruption across half of Eurasia, in Africa, and elsewhere. That is not acceptable to them.
After the war ends, we should start addressing the influx of Polish goods into our market. I do not understand how they tolerate their products being touched by the descendants of those who supposedly committed genocide against them? That also seems somehow improper.
And in general, what are these quotas and restrictions on our trade with the EU? It is time to open the market, because otherwise we might not even receive cheap weapons.
Why should we thank Nawrocki?
He should be thanked for starting this hysteria precisely now, before we entered into joint production of missiles and other systems with Poland. Otherwise, we would now be sitting and worrying about whether those weapons might fall on our own heads.
He has proven that Hungary’s policy is not an accident but a pattern. All these "European values" and the EU are a pack of jackals ready to attack you when you become slightly weaker. Soon we will also hear claims from Romania, just as we have heard them from Hungary and Poland. They sense the emergence of a new player that will take away their resources, markets, dictate its will, and so on.
How should "good neighborly" relations be maintained?
I often hear this phrase. In reality, the best "good neighborly relations" are built on fear and strength. Nothing supports "good neighborly relations" more than Ukraine having a strong army, intelligence services, cruise missiles, ballistic weapons, domestically produced drones, and the potential ability to strike back.
Then people suddenly start becoming your friends — especially within the range of your missiles. The farther your missiles can fly, the more "friends" you suddenly find in the world.
