“you’d think the Poles would figure out they’re being used.”
The Poles are just as stupid and greedy as their Ukrainian cousins, they are hoping for a windfall of money from the EU and NATO for being a good lackey.
Keeping Poland and Ukraine fighting each other fulfills Germany’s policy manipulation, which they have done for centuries and now within the EU, which Germany (thanks to years of Merkel) thinks they RUN!
Germany does not run the EU. The UK is out— Brexit. Italy is next—buh bye, and thus the EU thinks it has NATO as a tool. Victor Orban is exercising his veto as an EU member state’s leader to veto a budget expenditure of the EU, ie. giving Ukraine (not an EU member state,only a candidate, which by now is showing they have nothing to contribute to EU) the proposed billions. By so doing, Victor Orban is shoving the EU’s faces into the mud, because they specifically have NOT paid Coronavirus compensation agreed to by all EU member states to be paid out to each of the EU member states as laid out in the EU’s Coronavirus recovery budget. Victor Orban is exercising Hungary’s rights to equal treatment in the EU. The EU thinks (Germany) more precisely) that it calls the shots.
Quite the opposite.
Orban is stopping the aid to Ukraine unless orban gets money