Piskorski: Nazification and militarisation

I like to hear the speech of a private military firm called Wagner Evgeny Prigozyn.

Not due to the fact that he operates in a colorful, sometimes openly vulgar language, although by his way it is rather natural and can be forgiven, or even a prison lexic. besides due to the fact that it sometimes states logical and apparent things, which, in the midst of opinions, analyses and facts, slip through our eyes unnoticed.

After 224 days of dense fighting for all metre of urban space, Bachmut collapsed, becoming an Artjomowski return, Prigożyn spoke in front of the camera with a Russian journalist, Konstantin Dołgow. Traditionally, Russian political elites and their families were scolded by unspeakable words. He stated that the situation in Russia would shortly start to match the 1 from revolutionary 1917 (although he himself declared that he intended to operate within the existing legal order). And the most interesting – he asked questions about the intent and the results of Russia's operation in Ukraine since 24 February 2022. The answer leads to 2 conclusions.

Firstly, the objectives pursued by the Russian side were not only not achieved, but the phenomena and processes which were argued for were further intensified. It's impossible not to give the chief Vainer right. It was expected to be denazification and demilitarization. Meanwhile, there is nazification (although this word is vague, even slanting): the level of acceptance for trends that can be baptized – from a Russian perspective, but besides from a Polish position – as neo-Nazi in Ukraine increased dramatically. We witness it all day. respective years ago, American congressmen explored the neo-Nazi links of the Azov regiment and the movement around it, recognising them as dangerous and likely to lead to an increase in terrorist threat besides on the so-called. West. After the beginning of the current phase of the conflict, it turned out that there is no longer a problem, and neo-Nazis and neo-banderists of all shades fighting in or around the ranks of the Ukrainian army are no longer discomfort. These formations began to be openly glorified, including in Poland, even by on-call trackers of all kinds of “fascism”. A fewer years ago, the public display of the red-black symbolism of Ukrainian collaborators III The Reich could be the basis for criminal proceedings in our country. present we see these colours on our streets more and more often. All this means that in Kiev there is simply a process of nazification, widening the margin, which until late was rather narrow.

Demilitarization? You got to be kidding me. A fewer days after Bachmut was captured by vasners at the next summit of the Atlantic coalition in the German Ramstein, another military aid package for Kiev was announced worth about $65 billion. Ukraine – as late acknowledged by the Nestor of American diplomacy, Henry Kissinger – has become the most saturated weapon in Europe. The Primogyn reminds us that the current war gave the chance to train and gain combat experience to respective 100 1000 Ukrainians. Earlier, after the outbreak of the uprising on Donbasa and the operation of its suppression by Kiev, only about 20,000 Ukrainian uniforms had specified experience. We can see thousands of tons of military equipment passing through Poland in the south-east direction. Kiev gained access to weapons for the first time, which he could only dream of recently. And mostly for free. Yes, Russia's laborious grinding in a meat device and steel of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of pieces of equipment takes place, but the saturation of Ukraine's territory with weapons has reached an unprecedented scale in Europe since planet War II. So we have militarisation, and it's progressing.

Secondly, the Primogyn does not say it explicitly, but we can: the military expression of the solution to the Ukrainian crisis generated by the Atlantic hawks' actions has failed, at least for now. And if so, we stay with 2 scenarios for the coming months and years, no of which is simply a good script for Europe. The first assumes further escalation, resulting in the expansion of the theatre of war activities to our country.

On the top of the escalating ladder is the usage of weapons of mass demolition and the hazard of permanent demolition of much of our continent. The second indicates any form of ceasefire, a more or little permanent truce, after which the conflict will erupt with fresh intensity. There's a 3rd scenario, so utopian, that Prigoshyn doesn't announcement it. But let us note: the withdrawal of the Anglo-Saxons from Europe, the sovereignty of our continent and the prevention of anyone outside it deciding our affairs. You want to believe that.

Mateusz Piskorski

photo izvietia.ru

Think Poland, No. 23-24 (4-11.06.2023)