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To: GoldenState_Rose

Good to see that Poland has learned from its past mistakes in trusting its safety to western Europe.


11 posted on 03/28/2018 2:44:48 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: jimmygrace
To be fair - Poland in 1939 had no chance of surviving against both the USSR and Germany. the only hope was fighting long enough so that the second front on the west would start. If the UK and France had advanced in 1939 as they had promised, then Hittler would have a two-front war and he would lose on the western front (as the Germans were badly outnumbered and outgunned)

HOWEVER, note that America (to be specific FDR) also betrayed Poland in 1943 at yalta when Poland was handed over to the USSR.

But that is the past. Poland's target now is three-fold:

  1. Integrate closer with the USA and also western europe in NATO
  2. integrate defences with the Visegrad group (hungary, slovaki, czechia -- but note that these three are somewhat pro-russia) and with the Baltic states --> a modern Międzymorze
  3. Watch Russia closely - post-Putin there WILL be chaos

15 posted on 05/06/2018 11:54:40 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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