Wielomski: Who Should Win the War?

I read this news in the media: “SHOOTING words by Samuela Torkowska, who DAME the answers to the question of who should win the Russian-Ukrainian War!” I will admit that I am besides shocked, but not to refuse to answer by a Confederate candidate, but due to the idioticness of this question.

Who should win the war? – the question is so formulated that the politician (and the candidate Samuel Torkowska thus became a politician) cannot answer it due to the fact that it is simply a question from another world. The same is actual of a political scientist. The category “should” comes from the doctrine of Immanuel Kant and from his discrimination between what the planet is (n. Sein) and what should be (n. Sollene) and behind this discrimination was the desire to destruct the planet as it truly is, to replace it in the future as it should be. Kant and his students have never understood that the planet has always been, is and will be the same due to the fact that they run politics for people who have always been, are and will be the same. The question “who should win the war?” from poorness could besides be asked by scholastics and neoscholastics working on the problem of a just war, if we presume that the war should be won by the 1 who leads it in the right origin (latz. justa causa).

However, global policy does not function according to the category "should win" but according to the category "win or lose". Therefore, the correctly formulated and with any applicable question to Samuela Torkowska should be: “Who do you think will win the Russian-Ukrainian War?” They can besides be formulated in another way: "You think it would be better for Poland to win the war for Ukraine or Russia?". Or else, ‘Does Poland have any interest in further supporting Ukraine?’. These questions would be applicable to policy alternatively than to a detached cantist who functions in terms of "should".

The problem in Poland for decades, or respective centuries, is that we do not think in terms of what it is (Sein) but how it should be (Sollene). In fact, I believe that the origin of this mistake lies very profoundly in our past and is connected with our systemic underdevelopment inactive from the time of the Noble Republic, erstwhile our ancestors did not build a strong monarchic power that would guide the politics of the global category of state rations. There was no school in Poland to think about politics in terms of state reasons, self-interest, etc. In this place we had a nobility democracy with masses of politically ignorant nobles who did not realize global politics and which magnates and agents of abroad courts were sprinkling the moral category which is right, which is wrong, just and unfair. Of course, those who popularized these ideas dressed their own interests in the furs of justice and good, and presented the interests against them as evil and unjust. And that's what we have left. It became a permanent and anti-political heritage of the Noble Republic, then reinforced by an insurrectional tradition that never functioned in the category of national interests, but "moral outrage". And Poles are constantly “morally outraged” at something in planet politics, and they do not see that their outrages are highly selective, since they are “indignant” at the Russian attack on Ukraine, alternatively than “indignant” for example, the aggression of NATO against Serbia. This was due to the fact that it is the media that dictates the moralistic Polish public opinion on what to be outraged for and what not to do. Hence this question, from which I started this text, namely, "Who should win the war?" – a question which for the individual reasoning in terms of the state's right is completely pointless.

Take this example. Imagine that on the mundial the Polish representation went to 1 elimination group with France, Israel and Zimbabwe. Anyone who knows me knows that I am culturally an utmost Francophile, and French doctrine and political literature I know much better than Polish. At the same time, I am an anti-Zionist and have no peculiar sympathy for the State of Israel. The first game in the group is played by France and Israel. Who should I root for as a Pole? However, as a Francophile I feel that my heart beats for France, I start football bills: the undeniably strongest squad in the group is France, an absolute favourite to leave the group first. Israel and Zimbabwe are weaker than Polish teams. So if Poles were to get out of the first place in the group, who should be cheered for? France and Israel? Of course, we are curious to have Israel win this game, to even draw, to even cut 1 point, or at least 1 goal!

However, we cannot decision the same categories into global relations and start counting whose triumph pays off and whose triumph not. We cannot separate between our private sympathy for individual nations and countries from the real political interests. I am an utmost cultural Francophile, but I absolutely do not want for the triumph of French abroad policy to lead to the federalisation of the European Union. I know this is unpopular today, but I have always been a rusophile, and yet I would not like Russia to, for example, annex Ukraine and Belarus, which would make us another and natural mark of further Russian expansion. It is simply that private sympathy for circumstantial nations and states must be put in a drawer erstwhile we consider global relations and the right state. Sympathy is passions that cover our state's right, and right – as the name itself says (from Latin. ratioThat's reason! Therefore, it would be entirely right to ask, "In your opinion it would be better for Poland to win the war for Russia or Ukraine?" – especially since we already know that Ukraine is positioning itself as Berlin's ally against Warsaw, that is, Russia and Ukraine will have a bad relationship.

Adam Wielomski