Will we not besides want to "die for Gdansk"?

We do not want to die in “our war”, that is, the war of the current authorities in Kiev with “Russian aggression”. We besides frequently declare that we will not want to fight for our country if it is attacked in the future.

Propagandists besides know very well who will inevitably attack us: of course it will be a "putinian Russia"; they can see better erstwhile they tell us sooner or later that "Russia will decision to the West"; they say it must only "rebuild its potential" destroyed in the "lost war with the collective West". In the current propaganda, president Putin will live for a very long time, due to the fact that the Russian aggression on Poland is "inevitable" and will happen in the position of 3 to 10 years (and even later) – but always under his leadership.

No more abuse of authoritative propaganda; this is, to put it bluntly, which is most likely not believed even by the “servants of the Ukrainian people” of the Vistula River. It is worse that any Poles take this variant of the future seriously and declare their attitude: they do not want to "die" for proverbial Gdańsk (French in 1939-1940 – our allies at the time – they did not want to die for Paris too). Is there a generation of pacifists in “independent Poland” that does not identify with our country? Or is it just a disapproval for the “eastern policy” of our authorities, which has been implemented for at least 10 years (or longer?) whose final is to be the war against the neighbour much greater and stronger. Did it make any sense, given the interests of our country and its citizens? For decades, we have purchased energy from Russia, including oil and natural gas in particular, and exported processed goods and agricultural products to the marketplace (we utilized to be 1 of the most crucial suppliers of fruit, including apples), global transport services. We have already lost these markets at our own request, and we buy energy from much more costly suppliers. Why did this happen? We have joined the “collective West” sanctions and introduced on our own initiative an embargo and bans which have only brought us losses. What was the cost of this policy? This can be estimated: lost gross and export profits must be summed up with the differences in acquisition prices which we are overpaying present by buying from more costly sources of energy resources. possibly this is about the amounts counted in hundreds of billions of PLN, due to the fact that another people gain inexpensive Russian oil on import. In addition, we have borne all these costs (as if) in the interests of the current authorities in Kiev, which are not only losing their war on Russia, but besides likely to be changed ("democratically") by the "collective West".

So no 1 can hide the failure of a policy of "kicking Russian" which costs citizens. If the end of this defeat is to be the “aggression of Russia” on our country, why did we do all this? Compromising this policy is besides clear and it is hard to lie further. Should we so die in a war which will be the consequence of the harm to the east policy of people whose sole intent is to harm “Russian”?

Historical analogy is not informative, but it is worth reminding. The abroad policy of Piłsudski and his successors (from 1926 to 1939) ended in a full military and political disaster of our state. These people could not come to the thought until September 17, 1939 that the united Germans would convince the then Bolshevik state, sharing with it the defeated Poland. Within 28 days of September 1939, more than half a million Polish troops and the full administrative and legal structure of our state ceased to exist, we lost almost all war resources, especially weapons, including immense supplies of ammunition. Major Henryk Dobrzański – the later "Hubal", continued in the opposition until April 30, 1940. He was just a fewer exceptions.

Prof. Witold Modzelewski

Think Poland, No. 33-34 (17-24.08.2025)