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To: RandFan

He says Poland have grievances going back to 1794. I didnt know that!

Poland didnt exist in 1794 Prussia, Russia and Austria had already chopped it up


6 posted on 08/04/2023 3:43:33 PM PDT by njslim
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To: njslim

It was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the time, which was in the process of disintegrating thanks to Prussia and Russia tearing pieces off it beginning in 1792. The Poles staged an uprising against this in 1794, but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was no more by 1795. This is the much simplified and abbreviated telling of what was going on. Look up Kościuszko Uprising for more.

That said, I don’t think the Poles want to annex parts of Ukraine or Belarus, They have learned the hard lessons of the past about the terrible headaches that come with multi-culti and like their nice mono-ethnic country.

It’s true they are really down with spouting bellicose rhetoric and are loving being US Daddy Warbucks’ golden child right now and sticking out their tongues at the Germans, but that doesn’t mean they want to absorb a bunch of Western Ukrainians and Belarusians and all the problems that would bring.


15 posted on 08/04/2023 4:31:12 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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