Many times in “Polish Thoughts” we warned against the real consequences of the east policy conducted by subsequent governments in Poland. We have besides talked about the problem of mass immigration of Ukrainian citizens into our country.
In this context, we have besides talked about what we can collide with after the possible end of the war and the arrival of an even further decomposition of the structures of the Ukrainian state. Our warnings were considered not so alarmary, but "pro-Russian" or duplicating Kremlin narratives. Today, the easiest way to avoid a substantive debate is to discredit a view or take the credibility of the forecast. "We must be aware that sooner or later many erstwhile soldiers from the front will appear in Poland due to the fact that they have families here. They will besides come with intellectual and intellectual problems after wartime experiences. Not always and not everyone will have appropriate medical or intellectual care" – he says about the possible of ending the war, not our publicist or independent expert, but... Chief of the Polish Police Gen. Marek Boron. He besides adds that organised criminal groups created by Ukrainians will not only deal with arms trafficking or drug smuggling, but besides corruption and money laundering related to embezzlement of subsequent tranches of funds allocated to Kiev, for example to rebuild the country from war damage.
The diagnosis is apparent and comes from the organs liable for our safety. I'm certain it's not the chief chief's impression, or his besides much imagination. These claims are mostly based on operational cognition and experience to date, alternatively than unprecise intuition. Gen. Boron cites a akin process that took place after the end of the Balkan war. Only that at the time this phenomenon did not concern our immediate neighbourhood, and its scale was incomparably smaller than the size of the threat from Ukraine, which is not truly hard to predict.
But let us presume for a minute that individual wants to face this threat. He's wondering how to do it. To solve the simplest – to prevent a long-term war – is besides late. It can only be regretted that Poland's position in the post-missive area was besides weak for us to always effort mediation or support a real peaceful solution to existing disputes. However, we gotta say to ourselves: it was the Polish governments who helped set fire to the Anglo-Saxons of Ukraine. It was our government that did everything to guarantee that the armed conflict in this country actually broke out. How? Although supporting any possible steps towards what the Russian authorities have been openly observing since 2007: Ukraine's accession to NATO, de jure or only de facto. We have served throughout these years as a geopolitical instrument for setting the European continent on fire and destruction. We've brewed ourselves, whose barrel we must now drink.
But we can't change that. All you can think about is how to minimize the threats the chief of police is talking about. There is most likely no effective method, but it is possible to consider any measures limiting the scope of Ukrainian crime of various types. The Polish state will face a real challenge which will not be able to face police officers, not to face armed, experienced in killing criminals. We just can't let these criminals into our country. For this purpose, already present the liable authorities should prepare a plan to completely close and block the Polish-Ukrainian border. They should besides consult another European Union countries bordering Ukraine: Slovakia, Hungary, Romania. It may be essential to set up a real wall on this section of our east border, not on the border with Belarus (it is adequate to agree on illegal immigrants with the authorities in Minsk) or Russia (from the Kaliningrad region its residents came to us for tourist or buying purposes, providing real income to residents of Warmia, Mazury and Pomerania).
If we don't close the border with Ukraine now, shortly stormy, banditous 1990s. They may seem childish to us.
Mateusz Piskorski
Think Poland, No. 9-10 (1-8.03.2026)
