This comments on the government paper of January 10, 2025. Report by the Commission Disinformation Group on the examination of Russian and Belarusian influences. Of course, the study was expected to indicate that Russia and Belarus were conducting a cognitive war against Poland.
But the authors on 84 pages did not show this. However, the paper helps to realize who and with how much strength is conducting specified a war. It cannot be excluded that the study itself is part of the cognitive war against Poland, due to the fact that at all costs it is trying to tell us the non-existent situation.
Polish patriot as a product of Moscow manipulation
According to the report, Russia on a large scale, spending immense money on it, is increasingly affecting the situation in Poland. No study is needed to conclude that Russia has no influence on Poland. A large part of voters and the majority of the Polish “social and political elite” are completely Ukrainianised people, for whom only the interests of Ukraine and not Poland matter. It's akin among presidential candidates. Yes, Grzegorz Braun and Artur Bartoszewicz Ukrainian patriots are not, but so far they have no chance of winning. Another thing is that these fewer of our politicians, like the 2 mentioned, who are guided by the Polish business alternatively than the Ukrainian business, do so not from inspiration of Moscow, but from their own beliefs. The authors of the study see it differently, and everyone to whom the interest of Poland is closer than Ukraine treats it as being manipulated by Russia. Thus, they measure reality to absurdity, due to the fact that according to them all Polish patriot is simply a product of Russian manipulation.
A phenomenon as old as the world
A small digression at first. The cognitive war is simply a word that has been increasingly fashionable for respective years, although the main areas afraid were known and utilized in various conflicts besides in the past centuries. Now. Carl von Clausewitz emphasized that the war is about the human mind. He pointed out that it was about forcing an opponent to do our will. However, the usage of modern, modern technologies allows to treat the cognitive war as a separate area of conflict, as crucial as the kinetic war. It is besides called the War on the Minds for a reason. This is due to the fact that according to her assumptions this human head becomes a battlefield. The parties to the conflict effort to influence what individuals think, how they think and how they act, utilizing technology gains (e.g. social media). And all this without their cognition and awareness of being the mark of these actions.
Definition from NATO
"Effectively conducted, shapes and influences individual and group beliefs and behaviours, favouring the aggressor's tactical or strategical objectives. In utmost form, it can lead to the disintegration and disintegration of the full society, so that it no longer has the collective will to argue the opponent's intentions." – reads the NATO survey of 2021. The January study on Russian and Belarusian influences on Polish reality is filled with the concept of "cognitive war", which is why I utilized it. The paper is available, so everyone can get their own view. Let me just say that the 84-page study was created by a committee appointed in May 2024 by the Prime Minister's Regulation.
Tonnes of documents
As the introduction itself wrote, "The Commission, consisting of 11 independent experts and experts, has received almost 2,000 public and classified documents, including a ‘closely secret’ clause. In total, she analyzed material that had nearly 17,000 pages. The conclusions are alarming. The Commission's work shows that Russia is conducting a long-term cognitive war against Poland with the aid of Belarus. It is intended to increase social polarisation and the demolition of assurance in democratic structures and, as a result, weaken and disintegrate the West".
COPIS means actual cognitive war
No cognitive war can polarize society and destruct assurance in democratic structures more than they have done so far. Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński. The Commission is trying to attribute to the Russians and the Belarusians the effects of a destructive PO-PiS policy. Reading this at a time erstwhile Bogdan Święczkowski He's fighting the Tusk coup, this study seems even more ridiculous. Does anyone truly believe that the collapse of the Polish state occurred as a consequence of respective or even respective 1000 hypothetical Russian social media entries?
Hypotheses without evidence
The weakness of this study is its advanced level of generality and deficiency of concrete examples of negative effects of Russian hostile actions in Poland. The authors describe the general mechanisms that Russia and Belarus and any another country can apply to Poland and trace "show" the negative effects of akin alleged actions in another countries, indicating that these are only hypotheses. So the full thought of this study is not based on facts but on the hypothesis that Russia is utilizing misinformation and distributing it to Poland through media. As they wrote themselves "The Commission has assumed that Russian disinformation in Poland is distributed in a multimodal media strategy of combined vessels and should be analysed". This hypothesis has not been confirmed in any way.
Like Friday
The “report” analyses the non-existent reality. Therefore, this "work" should not be considered a serious report. However, it must be assumed that committee members, advanced officers, people with academic titles working at universities, took very good money for each period of their “work” as well as for a serious and real report. With most likely the staff of officials or various paid subcontractors available, they did not work very hard. 1 of the committee's subcontractors was a reliable editor Thomas Friday, which on 14 January personally boasted on his social media: "I officially disclose that I have written 2 reports for the committee on the examination of Russian and Belarusian influences at the Ministry of Justice. erstwhile writers shout that “I am taking money from Adam Bodnar”, that is what they are shouting about. I was offered $8,000 for 1 report. Spartan wage for months of hard work? Very good. If we want to win with Russia, we must be supported”.
Nobody read that?
Reading this report, you can get the impression that it was written by pseudo-experts specified as Tomasz Friday. Editor Friday is an excellent businessman, and his loud publicist on social media is nothing more than excellent marketing, thanks to which he can sale his books at large expense and appear on Tusk's squad as an expert. The way the editor chose advertising is superb in its simplicity. It is adequate that all respective hours “disclosed” “relationships with Russian intelligence” in another politician who is not from Tusk camp and business revolves. The Commission, inviting 5 to cooperate, has made him an excellent ad, at the same time showing the collapse of a country that does not have real experts, or does not want to usage them. Members of the committee chaired by the head of the SKW General Jaroslaw the Guardian, including both professors, erstwhile ambassadors and directors of state institutes, most likely only signed the text that “experts” kind Friday wrote to them. I feel like they haven't even read it. This “report” is simply a kind of academic lecture about what cognitive warfare is.
Ukraine deals cards in Poland
If the titled members had read what they had been given to sign “experts”, many parties would have deleted. E.g., which characterises disinformation tactics, says: "The absurdity of the “great lie” paradoxically builds its credibility on the rule that “they would not have invented it”. This perfectly fits into the misinformation activities utilized by Ukraine. The crap we were fed was so absurd that many people believed it; "They wouldn't make it up." – as the authors of the study write. Roma stealing Russian tanks. The grandmothers who utilized jars to knock down combat drones or even Russian helicopters. Or that in March 2023 the Russians were to run out of rockets. Of course, the full era of death and illness Vladimir Putin. It's just a tiny part of the avalanche of crap that the Ukrainians fed us. Each of us remembers them perfectly. However, no 1 has given and will give any example ‘absurdity which makes credibility’ in the Russian edition. due to the fact that that's not what the committee members know privately due to the fact that they're not idiots. Another "gun to the knee" of Ukrainianized elites is the text: “The opponent in the cognitive war is eager to search the arguments of the ‘authority’. In the case of Poland, scientists and technological institutions and universities frequently enjoy specified authority”. Everyone in this conviction will clearly admit the actions of Ukraine, not Russia. In various televisions, on portals or paper newspapers, from morning to evening there are "authorities" to which Ukraine has reached. These authorities in the Polish mediosphere impose Ukrainian narrative. Of course, in technological institutions, Ukrainian communicative is simply a kind of religion, and those scientists who do not want to be followers of it are seceded. Or another example of effective Ukrainian tactics, which the report's authors effort to attribute to the Russians, without supporting it with any examples. "...soft power is simply a geopolitical conflict technology that allows you to accomplish dominance over your rival by secretly taking control of the mechanisms of conducting its abroad and interior policy and by manipulating the acquisition of control of the economy, economy, etc. Soft power objects become elites and political-military structures of the rival”. For 3 years our abroad and interior policy has been linked to the needs of Ukraine, not Russia. Poland's economy and economy are barely dead after putting more than €100 billion into Ukraine and of course from further packages of sanctions imposed on Russia in the interests of Ukraine. Polish "elites" are mostly long since Ukrainianized and care mainly for Ukraine's interests. Anyone who even observes the political life in Poland knows this very well. The authors of the study effort to advance that if it does not stop, Russia will shortly be handing out cards over Vistula with the aid of Polish elites. In fact, Ukraine has long been doing so, and there is no reason to say that Russia will replace it.
The study says that Russian propaganda announced the incredible successes of its troops on the front. In fact, Ukrainians did it, for example by writing about their offensive, which in their propaganda was successful for many months, and in fact broke down after respective days. It is impossible to discuss here all time authors/propagandists tried to delegate Ukrainian actions to Russia, due to the fact that the article would have the volume of the book.
Anonymous "scientific" sources
Chapter 5 Case studies, is by authors the most crucial part. A chapter of monstrous debt, from which there is nothing, but one. It may be a origin for the creation of a "proscription list" of people and media in intellectual opposition to authoritative propaganda. It starts with a crucial list of Polish media, which according to the study "distribute Russian narrative". The only "proof" that this is simply a Russian communicative is its incompatibility with the authoritative communicative imposed by the Polish-speaking government and Brussels commissioners. As it says, ‘The network analysis utilized by the Commission in the years 2022 and 2023 indicated a advanced level of interlinking and fast content flows between these sources and made it possible to identify the most active facilities in network relations.’. Then they made a fewer tables and graphs about it, and quasi- technological descriptions. For the “specialists” of the committee, a advanced level of interlinking and fast content flows is evidence that this is the distribution of Russian misinformation. In fact, it is simply a banal and common mechanics for the duplication of information among media and individual users in any circumstantial area of interest, in this case in politics. It is simply a mechanics that functions according to the same strategy in all area: gossip, fishing, political etc. The authors besides mention indeterminate professional literature, which conclusively confirms their hypothesis. It should be assumed that they mean the literary works of Tomasz Piątek or akin works.
COPIS affair
Authors/propagandists one more time shot themselves in the knee, writing about the email scandal as a Russian cognitive operation. Finally, they say "Operation continues to this day and the persons behind it have not been identified". If the perpetrators have not been identified, evidently this cannot be attributed to the Russians. Looking at the further content of the study on the crisis at the border with Belarus, we read: ‘...Tomasz Sakiewicz, the editor-in-chief of tv Republika and ‘Gazeta Polska’, Dominik Tarczyński, Kazimierz Smolinski, Samuel Pereira, Adam Andruszkiewicz) carried out many further disinformation actions. They were directed against opposition policies, organisations and individuals supporting activists at the border, activists and journalists attempting to study on the situation of migrants". Therefore, it can be assumed that the email scandal, like the border scandal, is besides a gameplay inside the PO-PiS, alternatively than the actions of Russian services. In objectively speaking, this study is besides an crucial component in the war between Tusk and political opponents. It was written to stigmatize all environments that do not share the authoritative policy of the compasses.
No questions – unanimity
In fact, the most crucial part of the study is its last 4 pages. Recommendations. It is highly likely that the "report" is only to justify recommendations which the chief of the committee could receive from the Prime Minister's cabinet before the work began. This is, of course, a hypothesis. And the main recommendations come down to the request to increase public control. Tusk wants to press the screw on Poles with individual else's hands. Then he will say that he had to due to the fact that you were a general specialist in catching spies and all the another titled members, unanimously recommended it, of course for the sake of Poland. Unanimously due to the fact that the Commission has adopted a expression that each advice accepts "...all members and all members of the Commission". This clever procedure, before the work began, pacified more inquisitive members of the Commission and closed the discussion so that nothing could endanger the "only right" recommendations.
PKW joined for information battle
The Commission regrets that “There is no regulation in Poland prohibiting interference in the intellectual integrity of the individual and psychomanipulation”. That's why they urge a ban like this. This postulated ban is nothing but the announcement of blocking websites. "Think Poland" during the regulation of the Law and Justice has already experienced illegal blockade, but "a fighting democracy" plans to make rules to block in the majesty of the law. In this study “Think Poland” takes a prominent place among enemies mainstreamum. These “defensors of intellectual integrity” effort to convince the public that, for example, this article interferes with the intellectual integrity of readers and psychomanipulates them, so it is best to block them. We all grin due to the fact that the report's authors usage psychomanipulation to convince people that anyone who offers different views than the government is simply a psychomanipulant. Another advice is to be broad and universal media education of society in terms of designation of manipulation and disinformation and critical thinking. First of all, this is for school youths, who are most likely preparing an additional subject. It is nothing more than the announcement of organized indoctrination of society, so that no 1 can think of any independent, critical reasoning and questioning of the policies governing Poland's Compradorial “elite”. An thought taken from the early PRL period erstwhile people were given the password “Be vigilant against the enemy of the nation”whether they were being warned of American imperialists, who dropped potatoes on Polish fields. Even on the first-year walk in Warsaw (1953) a puppet of the American imperialist was presented, who attacked our homeland with a stone and typhoid. Will “a fighting democracy” besides introduce puppets? We'll see. For me, another advice is simply a hit, in which the authors postulate to counter the influence of hostile 3rd countries and identify more powerfully the sources of their funding. Of course, erstwhile the authors wrote "enemy states", they meant Russia and Belarus. Just after the President's study was published Donald Trump He fulfilled this request. He stopped financing organizations (also those operating in Poland) that are de facto agents of hostile Poland globalists. In fact, he pointed to the main finger frontman Cognitive War. It is these organizations on various portals, tv channels, etc. that advance Ukrainian communicative in Poland. Their firepower is gigantic. respective twelve times larger than the full list of independent media promoting Polish communicative (according to the pro-Russian report). The recommendations could not miss the May presidential election. The authors of the study do not want the Romanian variant to happen in Poland and so request that the control of TikTok be extended: "The European Commission's TikTok surveillance to enforce compliance with the Digital Services Act is scheduled until March 2025. So it will not include presidential elections in Poland. It is worth seeking an extension and extension to another platforms". They even want to send an urgent survey mission of the State Election Commission to Romania, and then set up a disinformation squad in PKW.
True Threats
The aim of this study was never to survey Russian and Belarusian influences, but to supply the ruling farmers with akin information that they are. That's adequate as an alibi for the government, so that, contrary to a constitutional ban, he can introduce preventive censorship. This study is not to supply cognition of the real threats, but to justify the pacification of independent media that comply with these threats. And he's a threat, for example. Natalia Panchenkowhich scares Poles that if they don't get along with Ukrainians, there could be riots. A year ago in an article Rash ruKich onuc I described this character and her hateful activity. That's why it's worth asking who protects her? By analyzing her freaks, you can presume individual significant. But there would be no problem, Mrs Panchenko, if it were not for the 2014 coup in Ukraine, in which most Polish politicians participated. A fewer days ago Robert Kennedy Jr. accused the United States Agency for global improvement (USAID) of organizing the overthrow of the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. USAID, which he called ‘CIA cover’, spent $5 billion to finance the Euromaidan riots. According to him, these events led to a coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine. I hope that 1 day there will be a real committee that will compose a real study on the participation of Polish politicians in the Ukrainian coup. Politicians who for 10 years fed us nonsense about the revolution of dignity and the will of the Ukrainian people. Who are liable for what is happening in Ukraine today. So far, the same politicians have created a commission to compose a study that will justify censoring free critical media so that the fact about their vile deeds does not scope a wide scope of audiences.
Cezary Michał Biernacki
