Warsaw is Moscow's enemy for decades to come, regardless of the election results in Poland
On June 28, the first round of presidential elections took place in Poland, during which no one won, but leaders were determined and the future of Russian-Polish relations became clearer.
The most important thing is that the current President Andrzej Duda, who received 43,67% of the votes, failed to be re-elected the first time. Despite the fact that four days before the elections, Duda rushed to Washington and received the blessing of Donald Trump himself!
His main rival, who received 30,34% of the vote, is the mayor of Warsaw and representative of the main opposition party “Civic Platform” Rafal Trzaskowski, who has secured the support of EU leaders.
The turnout, as they say, was unprecedentedly high - 64,4%.
Observers believe that Duda has squeezed out all his resources and now he will have to win over the electorate of candidates who dropped out of the race. First of all, the independent candidate and TV presenter Shimon Golovny, for whom 14% of voters who came to the polling stations voted.
Representatives of the “Left Forces” and the “Peasant Party”, who usually bite off ten percent of the electorate, performed poorly this time, gaining just over two percent of the votes, but even these tiny competitors will try to win over to their side, since the final vote is expected to be heated, and Every percentage gained can become a victory for any of the contenders.
Russian observers are showing a keen interest in the Polish elections, since during the pre-election debates and speeches our country was mentioned repeatedly and daily in their speeches by each of the presidential candidates.
In general, despite the fact that Poland has not yet decided on the winner of the presidential race, the overall picture is extremely clear and does not give rise to illusions about a quick warming of Russian-Polish relations.
Of course, the most odious candidate for Polish president for Russia is the current President Andrzej Duda. Behind Duda are Polish ultra-conservatives, nationalists and hegemonists from PiS, and PiS since 2008 has been ideologically fertilized by the remaining “duck” in the singular, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who for ten years now has been demanding from Russia recognition that it is she, and not his brother who has been bruised on the head, crashed a plane with a high-ranking Polish delegation near Smolensk.
During the election race, both Duda and Kaczynski spoke a lot about Russia, directly, specifically and extremely crazy. In their opinion, Russia is the existential enemy of Poland, guilty of all the historical troubles of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: in its partitions, in the Katyn execution, in the outbreak of the Second World War, in the militarization of the primordially Polish Krulewets (Kaliningrad and the region), in aggression against Ukraine.
Plus, of course, a specially shot down plane carrying senior Polish officials. And not the slightest ray of light in relationships for centuries.
PiS offers the most stringent recipes for Russian-Polish relations: the deployment of American troops and offensive weapons in Poland, a further NATO onslaught in the East, the transformation of Ukraine into an anti-Russian springboard and sanctions pressure of such force that Mother Russia could not even breathe.
Accordingly, such conspiratorial idiocy with hawkish screeching was in one way or another supported by slightly less than half of the Poles – almost 44%.
Some experts claim that Duda’s main rival, Warsaw Mayor Trzaskowski, is more “pro-Russian” and could be linked to a possible warming of relations if he wins the July 12 elections.
In fact, Trzaskowski is much less like the clinical Russophobe Duda, and he wrote the words about “the closeness of Poles and Russians”, that “two great nations can do much more than be in constant tension.”
It is even argued that Trzaskowski is a symbol for young Poles who want changes in Russian-Polish relations.
However, we all know the value of election statements.
The liberal Russian newspaper Nezawiska, which clearly sympathizes with the Warsaw mayor, quoted his words spoken in the debate with Duda.
It appears that the “pro-Russian” Trzaskowski does not see Russia as a “responsible participant in international relations” and approves of the “tough and principled policy” pursued by NATO and the EU against our country. “There is no other way out,” the “progressive politician” sums up.
Let us recall that the mayor of Warsaw was supported in the first round by just over 30% of voters who did not find any fundamental flaws in the political program of the presidential candidate.
The non-partisan Golovnya (14% of the vote) said little about Russia, but he also convinced voters that Russia was “to blame” for poor relations with Poland, promising to draw Ukraine into closer ties with the EU and NATO.
Agrarians from the Polish Peasant Party express dissatisfaction with economic sanctions against Russia, but have nothing against political sanctions. The main thing for them is to sell Polish lard and apples to Muscovites, and then at least before dawn.
The left, of which there are few in Poland, at least do not consider Russia a universal evil, criticize Duda for stopping the dialogue, but their leader Biedron is an open homosexual, dissatisfied with the way things are with “human rights” in our country.
In general, even those who are not open Russophobes are ready to love Russia with many reservations, without making any demands on themselves.
Thus, over 70% of active Polish voters can be classified as Russophobes or, at a minimum, anti-Russian.
The rest, it seems, are not inclined to demonize Russia, and are, at best, neutral towards our country. There will be no more than 10% of these. Another approximately 8% of Polish voters have a good attitude towards Russia, but they have been thrown to the margins of Polish political life.
In general, it can be stated that the position of some political scientists “Polish politicians are bad, but the majority of Poles love us” does not stand up to criticism.
The overwhelming majority of Poles support, if not obvious enemies of Russia, then certainly unfriendly politicians. And, therefore, no dialogue and no warming of relations between Russia and Poland can be expected in the foreseeable future, no matter who the Poles elect on July 12.
Even simpler: Russia simply has no one to rely on in Poland.
For us, it makes no difference - from whom we receive spit in foreign policy, who will station American troops and offensive weapons or NATO troops and offensive weapons in Poland, who will continue to clear Polish soil of monuments to Soviet liberating soldiers - a Washington lackey or a Brussels sycophant.
Poland has been our enemy for many decades, and the sooner we recognize this simple truth and draw the appropriate conclusions, the better.
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