The question of who will defend us – contrary to the expanding propaganda about our “natowski security” and the American “soy” umbrella – has become a fundamental question for the future of Poland since the beginning of the Western War with Russia in Ukraine.
It has late taken on fresh meaning in relation to drone provocations and others that have been subjected to our state. The same question has taken on global importance, in connection with the closure by Warsaw of the border with Belarus, namely the blockade of a fresh silk way or yet with the "intrusion of Russian aircraft into NATO airspace". These provocations only reassured the majority of Poles that they were dealing with a threat not only from the Ukrainian-Russian front, but besides from NATO's pro-war activities and the increasingly pro-war activities of the Polish authorities and political establishment, from which only the Confederation of the Polish Crown Grzegorz Braun is cut off. She, too, as the only group, does not submit to the pro-war amok of this overwhelming political mass and invariably proclaims the request to bring Poland from the war road and to take peaceful action quickly. Neither do Poles themselves want war. In the war, the politicians in charge of the war affect Poland – in the hope that the full nation will support them.
Poles Behind Peace
It turns out, however, that despite the omnipotent pro-war propaganda – based on a circumstantial dogma of religion in the US and NATO – most Poles do not intend to go to the “promethean” army, which would fight in our territory in defence of another people's interests. The more cynical the language of war agitators, the greater the opposition against them. The results of the post-September series of war provocations on the east flank of NATO are a evidence to this. After the drone action, the Pollster investigation Institute published on 11 September the results of responses to the question of whether they would defend Poland erstwhile the war spreads into its territory. 57 percent of respondents responded negatively. Only 27 percent declared their will to defend their homeland, 17 percent had no opinion on this. On the another hand, the IBRiS survey of 22 September – after the alleged invasion of the Russian MiGs into the airspace of Estonia – confirmed the dominant attitude of “anti-defence” among Poles – 4.1 percent of those surveyed would not be in a fight against the enemy if we were drawn into direct war. 44.8 percent declared the fight. Those who do not want to fight are as much as 69 percent in the youngest age group, aged 18-29. The authoritative results of the polls show 1 conclusion: the Polish war organization is based in its actions on a strong number of our society.
Who are their anti-war opponents? Is this majority, who does not want to defend Poland, cynical social outcasts, traitors, people with national and patriotic awareness disorders, incapable to sacrifice egoists? I dare say that they are people who are aware above all that the war in Ukraine is not our war, so they signal not to include Poland in it, due to the fact that then they will not defend it. They do not want to die in the name of our interests, due to the fact that the first most crucial Polish interest is peace – not only in our homeland and in all our neighbours, but besides in the planet with Gaza region at the head. It is hard to regulation out with all work the moral view – not isolated – that the pro-Israeli lobby wants to distract the planet from the genocide carried out by Tel-Awiw on Palestinians by enriching the war spectrum in Europe and including another willing participant, Poland.
The Fall of the Promethean Myth
From a cultural-civilization point of view, the attitudes presented by Poles towards the ongoing war attest to the stalemate of the thought of dedication in defence of the independency of the ultimate Republic for centuries. The stalemate besides includes the accompanying thought since the romanticist era a message of solidarity with another nations in the fight for noble goals, contained in the slogan “for our freedom and yours”. It is worth recalling at this point that in the first version – proposed by Joachim Lelebel – the slogan pointed to God as the guarantor of the sense of the conflict between the nations: In the name of God for our freedom and yours. It was presented on the banner carried on the Polish manifestation organized on 25 January 1831 in Warsaw to celebrate the memory of the participants of the uprising of the Decabrists against the Tsaric power, begun on 26 December 1825 in the legislature Square in St. Petersburg. The slogan was an expression of Polish solidarity with those persecuted after suppression of the uprising, its participants representing the free movement of the Russian noble elites. The spiritual dimension of the dedication of Poles in the name of our national freedom and the freedom of another oppressed nations was the most full understood in Grandpa Adam Mickiewicz, presenting the Messianic imagination of Poland in the expression “Poland Christ of Nations”.
Password To our freedom and yours. was visible in Polish and Russian on banners of participants of the January Uprising alongside the sign of the red cross on a white background. This sign was to be a symbolic message to the Russians that the insurgents were not against them, but against the Tsar's power, oppressive to both nations. The same slogan, written in Polish and Hungarian, was the motto of the Polish legion fighting in 1848, together with the seven-yard army, led by General Joseph Bem, in the uprising of Hungary against the Austrian rule. This motto besides accompanied Poles on the barricades of the Paris Commune or in the first revolution in Russia 1905. It was besides an inspiration for Poles fighting on all fronts of planet War II.
Cynicism of anti-Polish political dogmas
For the first time since the end of this war, the gathering of the “great three” in Yalta and its provisions on the fresh division of Europe, the lofty slogan invented in the 19th century by Lelebel appeared in the Polish circulation again after the Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022 under the peculiar Military Operations. The spontaneous reaction of Poles to this event took the form of pro-Ukrainian euphoria, resulting in a comprehensive – military, humanitarian, financial, economic, cultural – aid to Ukraine. This aid was unconditional and so all historical problems applicable to the current Polish-Ukrainian relations were excluded from its programme. This form of it became a dogma of Polish politics, subject to superficial reflection only now, in the 4th year of the ongoing war. After all, from the beginning our comprehensive and unconditional assistance to Ukraine meant a immense contribution of Poland to the war in its area.
In order to give this servile – and at the same time pro-war, pro-American and pro-Pronatatist attitude of Warsaw towards Kiev, Washington and Brussels (with the office of NATO) the character of not only a legitimate, but besides a sacred work our native propagandists associate it with absolute and nonsubjective Christian moral values and patriotic ideals expressed in mottos: God, Honor, Homeland, and For our and your freedom. This indirect and then direct participation in the war as our sacred work became the second political dogma in the Polish public space. No 1 from political and opinion-making backgrounds warned Poles about the danger of this pro-Ukrainian and pro-war euphoria for Poland. Even the Church succumbed to these dogmas and showed no danger of Poland being drawn into war. Moreover, he openly joined her propaganda through attacks by any hierarchs not only against president Putin, but besides the patriarch of the All-Ruse Cyril, or the heroics of the fighting neo-Bander military formation in Mariupolu, whose Torun media gave the position of defenders of the City of Mary.
The silence of the Church in Poland on the ban on the Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine and accompanying this ban on the repression of its clergy and believers is significant. This silence is all the more shocking as it is accompanied by approval for the Greek Catholic Church openly supporting the ideology of flagism not only during the Volyn massacre, but besides actively participating in its revival in the 21st century. The host in Polish churches, in addition to the Catholic besides the Greek Catholic Ukrainian clergy – co-organizers of neo-Bander demonstrations held without any obstacles besides during the ongoing war – became a valid norm focused not only on material aid for them, but besides on moral support.
This pro-Ukrainian attitude would have been commendable if it were not for the fact that the Church in Poland never demanded the judgement of the genocide of Ukrainian ideology, nor did it always inform against the dangers of its current rebirth for us. All the more hard to praise the pro-Ukrainian attitude of the Polish Church, that it is accompanied by a advanced degree of rusophobia, bordering with hatred for Russia and the Russians. That he is accompanied by complete silence on the genocide committed by the Israeli army on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and silence on the ruging of Christianity in the mediate East as part of Israel's wars in its area.
Despite the prevailing pro-Ukrainian public attitude and pro-war propaganda, Poles do not want to participate in the war with Russia either in Ukraine or – even more so – in Poland. It should be stressed that this anti-war attitude is due to themselves – their inquisitiveness, relations in social media, tracking niche portals, anti-war statements on You Tub by individual politicians, experts, publicists. This will of self-education, searching for fact and above all, reliable information about the course of the ongoing war changed the attitude of Poles towards trying to bring them into direct combat, which is encouraged by their native propaganda under the patriotic slogan of the defence of the homeland. The anti-war majority of Poles reject the lies of propaganda and the lies of the Ukrainian amok. She believed that designation of fact is not only a defence against pro-war enslavement, but besides the foundation of our national endurance and further existence. The motto Veritas vos liberabit led out of Christ's words in the Gospel according to St John, 8: 31 – the fact will set you free – has become a signpost for us in the ongoing conflict for the Polish soul.
Those conducting this fight are absolutely cynical and do not retreat from any way of lying to us, misleading us, promoting the illusion of triumph in the war against Russia. The apogee of cynicism determining the fight for the Polish soul is imposed on us by the illusion of safety of Poland, which is guaranteed by the US and NATO. The creators of this illusion were and are convinced that Poles are not only gullible but besides incapable to number – add and subtract circumstantial numbers. They are convinced that we do not know that there are about 10 1000 American soldiers and more than 10 1000 Natovian soldiers in Poland. In conjunction with 205 1000 soldiers of the Polish Army, it is simply a very ridiculous amount compared to the Russian army, which on the Ukrainian front holds more than 760 1000 soldiers and the following as a consequence of the fighting, the simplification of this number is immediately equalized by reserves sent to war created from yearly enlistments to the military. If a fresh front of the war were opened – e.g. in Poland – Russia is able to make a second army in the framework of extraordinary mobilization that surpasses the combined forces of Polish-American-Natarian forces. It's the cognition that a Pole can gain even if he is curious in the subject of the present war. However, regardless of our interest, each of us knows that we are being drawn into a war against the atomic power, which presently has 4309. Thousands of atomic warheads, and besides fresh kind of ballistic missiles Oriesznik, which have no equivalents in the weaponry of Polish-American-Natarian forces.
The conclusion is one: this cynical illusion of Poland's security, accompanying its incorporation into the direct war with Russia, is simply a form of humiliation of the Polish nation and an absolute effort to usage our lofty ideals in the fight for another people's vile interests.
The most effective defence of Poland is our strongest opposition against bringing it into war. No 1 but Poles is simply a warrant of our security.
Prof. Anna Raźny
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Think Poland, No. 41-42 (12-19.10.2025)
