The Poles were a lot smarter than the Germans.
First the Poles significantly increased their gas storage capacity and filled it.
Then the Poles signed built an LNG terminal.
Then the Poles secured a long term LNG contract with America.
Then the Poles secured a long term gas supply contract with Norway and built a pipeline.
They started all of this years ago.
Look at the Germans desperately scrambling now....after shutting down half their nuclear power plants and scheduling to shut down the remaining ones so they’re all the more desperate.
The Poles like the Romanians, Czechs, Baltics etc. don’t trust and haven’t trusted Putin for nigh on 15 years now.
Germany either was naïve to believe that they could win over Putin with economic benefits
OR
Merkel was an undercover Stasi spy.