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Yes, as I mentioned earlier, Morawiecki recently made some rather over-the-top statements. But nothing I can find about this protectorate business.

We also know that the discussion of the establishment of a Polish protectorate by Polish officials has occurred in the very recent past.

We know this how? From some guy on Twitter?

If it is such a wedge issue, and would split NATO, etc. -- and it certainly would not go down well with Germany and other European countries, I agree -- then why haven't the Russians been publicizing it? It would certainly be in their interest to do so. Why can't I find it in the Russian media? Not that finding it in the Russian media would necessarily mean he really did say it. But their not running with this is telling.

Again, I don't doubt that all sorts of ideas have been discussed, even wild ones, about how to respond to various possible scenarios in Ukraine. This idea of a temporary protectorate may well have been floated by someone at some time, but there is no proof that Morawiecki said any such thing publicly, or that anyone in a position of power is seriously considering it. If he had said it publicly at the conference in Warsaw on Monday, wouldn't at least the Russians have reported it, if not the Germans or Poles or Ukrainians?

Morawiecki did say some pretty out-there stuff on Monday. And he's been quite cocky toward the Germans lately. Right now Poland is a special NATO pet of ours. Morawiecki is perhaps letting that go to his head.

It's like the US is a mother who plays her kids off against each other by playing favorites with them. Right now, Poland is the golden child and getting his own back against the bigger stronger Germany who whipped up on him many years ago and now bosses him around. But for now Poland is Mom's fave so long as he's useful in ways she wants. So he's making the most of it while it lasts. Germany is the big bossy brother of the EU and carries a big wallet, but Mom has her ways via NATO, with her big purse and big stick ... See? And some of this may be political posturing for the next election, not sure about that, not being that up on Polish politics.

Whatever, Mom would not like him shooting his mouth off about a Polish protectorate in Western Ukraine. Not at all. So it stands to reason he simply wouldn't do that. Mom loves all the other stuff he said on Monday, of course. Good boy.

I don't like wars, either. The ones cheerleading this one on have likely never been anywhere near a real war and seen how utterly horrific wars are. Sometimes I wish photos included smell, so all the war enthusiasts who delight in posting war porn photos would have to smell war. It smells really, really awful, like nothing else.