Today we will not just say – no more war. present we must say – no more loneliness and no more weakness. To make our homeland free and independent. next day and forever.
Yes tweeted Called X Donald Tusk for today's anniversary, due to the fact that present is September 1st. A tiny typo – the Homeland was expected to be from large, and it turned out that we are great, not She. As the so-called, alleged – there are respective more crucial content in this commemorative entry. Anyway, it is hard not to sign these sentences, and it is hard not to announcement this peculiar Polish memory of tragic past – 1 about loneliness and powerlessness. all Pole – even as “internationalist” as I – wants independent Poland, most likely besides wants strong Poland. Not only Poles – Poles have akin ones, although in specified contexts they are mentioned little often, and it is besides possible to fishy that the force causes a somewhat different associations. After captivity, I am looking from specified a "grandmother's perspective" – although she is only supposed. From this perspective, I would not compose "today, tomorrow, and forever," due to the fact that specified declarations continued until the end of time were preached by the states, to put it mildly, more esteeming power and regulation than the freedom of citizens. These may be irrelevant linguistic dilemmas, although 1 must remember that the strength of the state and the freedom of its citizens seldom rhymed well in history. If ever. And there is no contradiction between force and freedom and between "never again" and the request of force, which in the final account is to warrant safety without repetitions of nightmares of history. Yet the discrimination is clear and deliberate. There is Tuska – not mine. To me, this discrimination is ominous.
It becomes a small clearer erstwhile it comes to Europe and its unprecedented EU project. I am a European Federalist, unlike Tusk, who, on the threshold of his rule, and Orban, closed the European discussion on treaty reform. Well, he risked nothing, the motion was simply symbolic, the improvement would not pass anyway, but possibly a point in Polish lawmakers. Or a quarter. However, likewise to Tusk (unlikely) I am a supporter of a strong European army. I definitely like her to the national army, as I have with the Border Guard, for the same reasons. The impotent indolence with a short political belt and the power of archaic ideology is frequently accompanied by savagery, and if you forget about it, the horrifying brothel and the grotesquely ineffectual tension of blown muscles is left. I like Frontex, although I have no large illusions about its possibilities. But I want to say first of all that I appreciate the importance of force even without war in the East.
However, the EU task was not due to the fact that it was unprecedented that it was about strength. On the contrary, it was about disarmament. The war itself was not understood by this and not by national or common armies. Not even a strong economy – although present in the context of Russia and China, and sometimes even the US talk about it a lot. besides in an economical sense, the first Coal and Steel Community was not expected to be so much an armored fist aimed at anyone in the planet (although the Cold War and atomic conflict were a real threat) – it was expected to be something instead, something that the members of the Community would prevent themselves from building armored powers. The Union task was about "never again". Prime Minister Tusk present declares that this is not enough, and we all know why.
But the European “never again” has another, definitely deeper face. In the tradition of global law and national laws appeared, namely, with the plan of a fresh order of concept previously unknown in politics – although it has always been known not only to philosophers. The concept of human dignity. Natural and inalienable. The concept is fundamentally quasi-religious. You can't get him out in a rational trial. But we know well from the experiences of the 2 most terrible totalitarians, about sources akin to populist elements raising heads again, what is denying respect for human dignity. I'm not the prime minister, and I don't care about my anniversary credo. But even in the face of a war danger, in which, yes, I am ready for what war brings:
If I am to decree anything "today, next day and forever", it is not the strength and independency of any state, even of mine, which I love with a hard and seldom reciprocated love, but just human natural and inalienable dignity, which the strong and most independent states mostly trample.
The discrimination is most likely not very crucial in the eyes of most of us. However, it takes him, erstwhile 1 looks at the Belarusian border and its most real victims, on many hens of the fresh "middle mail" countersignature in the ultimate Court, on the appalling roar of enthusiasm that Kosiniak-Kamysz caused in the participants of Campus Poland, with his patriotic for show, completely worshipful nonsense, for quite a few another things that I do not want to mention here, wishing the Polish government well, although I consider myself his opponent – due to the fact that I know that this is the best government possible today. Well, the guys are dressed in prairie feathers. Kamysz is looking for a priceless niche for him today. Tusk majority in the ‘centre’. possibly this mimic doesn't mean anything to us. He has them for example for the victims of the Belarusian border. For me besides – not only due to this. besides due to the fact that dressing up in pragackie feathers is the main strategy, unless it is the only strategy of "fighting against populism" in Polish. It's strategy and stupid, and scary at the same time.
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Yesterday, on the anniversary of the August Accords The Prime Minister said so:
No power should feel unpunished. all power must be accounted for for abuse, not revenge, but law. That's what we requested in August 80. At a peculiar gathering of the government in Gdańsk, I will remind my ministers that this regulation applies not only to the Law and Justice, but besides to us.
You're right, too. It may be a substance of language again, but in tweets accents and omissions are crucial and have any meaning. Where, then, did the Prime Minister’s request to teach his own ministers about the apparent that, in addition, were among the main social demands over the years? As regards the democracy of politicians who have repeatedly "pleasantly vowed" (as Kościuszko in Krakow), who announces on all occasion that various things "personally see to", and now considers it appropriate to inform the public that he will instruct ministers who, unlike him, seemingly tend to things as basic as honesty to forget. Was that the intention to present ministers like this? If anything amazed me in a fresh case with a countersignate for Mr. Wesołowski in the ultimate Court, it's the child's insolence of the translation of the mistake of mines. Berka and the ease with which this translation was accepted. Good Tsar, bad fighters. kind in Poland well known. From Piłsudski through Walęsa to Tusk – to mention only affirmative heroes of Polish history.
But Polish August is so different that it is hard not to be amazed at specified a choice of theme. In August Wałęsa jumped over the wall, then the wall was demolished in Berlin. I have participated in this revolution and I know that we have not won it, but geopolitics and Western powers. But August was 1 of the essential conditions for this process. And August was about that. He was against the walls. He was besides on the occasion of the dignity of the man who was already here. More than a reckoning, it was meant to be a reconciliation. It was immediately called the movement of moral renewal – and seemingly there was something to lift from.
Polish August evolved. The divert of the “red” accounts took on importance in it and dominated it with the tromtadratic and mad patriotism in that situation. Indeed, the fashion for walls prevailed in 1 of the currents of “Solidarity”. It so happens that from this very settlement, independency and national-Catholic current was born among the later active "generation of Styrofoam" of Kaczyński's right. There were another currents – beautiful, with a message crucial to this day. The Prime Minister never mentioned them.
Instead, he chose a message characteristic of an authoritarian supporter of a hard hand. Well, knowing he'll find the ear.
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After the decision of PKW PiS will collapse in a crisis which will most likely not be able to break Kaczyński, although it will take a small longer. The combination of the alt-right ranks under the fresh banners will surely happen, but present there is small indication that it will become as strong under them as it was and is inactive PiS. Poland's policy will so be fundamentally reassigned not only on the right-wing side, but it is simply a separate and very complicated subject. Partial puzzles and polls have long been considered political content, but they are not. It contains (or existed) deeper content. For example, 1 that is rooted in calling “never again”.
In the United States, the offensive is in turn Kamala Harris, and – which is surely more crucial from the position of deeper content – this offensive consists in strengthening the progressive line of democratic politics, not in seeking moderation towards blunt conservatism, which seems to dominate the rulers in Poland. So it's good, I'm certain it's better than it was before.
But at the same time, erstwhile I compose this, it's 6 p.m. and the results come out from Germany. AfD's expected success became a fact. That changes the balance. And it raises the question of the perfect consequence to the brown wave. Scholz sharpened anti-immigrant rhetoric before the election. In Polish, so to speak, style. It didn't aid much, but change is. And he'll stay. In Germany, “never again” goes distant in double memory. The reasons why politics militarizes us are understandable. But it is not a substance of wartime threats or "migration pressure". This is simply a much greater expression of ideological powerlessness against interior political threats. The success of Fascism on both sides of the war with fascism comes as a consequence of electoral campaigns. In Poland people are killed on the border due to “political gold”. Xenophobic nationalism and patriotic hysteria are besides powerfully present on our side. This is happening really, not in the realm of phraseology on solemn occasions.
Today is September 1st. I insist on "never again."
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It's my individual stubbornness, but I have a request for journalists and publicists on this occasion, unlike me, powerful. erstwhile the scandal broke out under Tusk's signature under the neojudge's appointment, we saw as a consequence a “fun in Berka”. any bought it, any didn't. However, the credibility of Tusk’s explanations has small to do with it. That's not what matters. Well, subsequent SN nominations will require further signatures. And Tusk has no way of doing what he did that time. possibly it was worth showing Duda that we could not veto everything and that it could even pay off. possibly this European interest was worth sin. I think that's how it was calculated. However, something absolutely invaluable is the border that Tuski was able to put in front of, in front of his full political standing. Get your conclusions out of here. Do not let go of xenophobic excesses on Campus Poland, dreary accents in run spots, do not let go of militaristic reigning posts.
What will Scholz do in the inactive hypothetical situation of the pro-Russian majority? In polls and politics? He will do what is expected of him. He'll effort to preserve power in the face of a fascist assault. Suspend Ukraine's help, start action against migrants. There is no inevitable “spirit of times” in politics. There's always limits. Like in the United States – although it is better to wait for the results there. Let all Scholz and all Tusk know they exist. And then possibly it won't be bad. possibly it's "never again."
