While we have lamented the daily hardships in recent years, we have rarely noticed that Poland has experienced an unprecedented international boom.
Russia's economic problems, with the growing rebellion of the former member states, as well as the tightening of the USA's policy towards Moscow, already at the end of Barack Obama's term of office, and to a greater extent during Donald Trump's presidency, created a great opportunity for us to enter the Central European geopolitical game
. Poland has started to develop the concept of the Three Seas Initiative, which unites around 200 million people, which gives us the opportunity to become the logistics and energy distribution center of the region.
Of course, Berlin and Moscow did not like all this. However, thanks to Washington's support, we were able to ignore their discontent. In exchange for the aforementioned support, we supported the American policy of limiting China and its European economic expansion. Trump's defeat changed some of these vectors. Germany has become a partner in the policy of restricting China, and the new American president also wants to reduce his country's energy expansion. He does this not only to support German politics, but also to fulfill the wishes of environmental organizations seeking to eliminate shale gas and petroleum. Sooner or later, this will mean the great economic crisis of the United States.
Such a policy will not win the favor of traditional democratic voters in the long run.
before that happens, at least two years of major turmoil is expected.
And the most recent decisions are the following: the lifting of sanctions related to the construction of Nord Stream 2, the attempts to close the Turów mine or the blocking of the construction of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline - unfortunately, it all comes together. All this reinforces the limitation of the Polish energy potential and the Russian-German energy cooperation. And the environmental protection organizations financed by Russian and German organizations are listed only as tools.
A hard fight awaits us, which we must fight for our vital interests.
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a strong state and great Of course, Germany's unexpected inclusion in the game will not please all of their European partners. A certain concern can already be observed in French politics. Paris has been simply ignored in the whole geopolitical game, and perhaps it will look for ways to rebuild its relations with Warsaw.
Certainly, the Polish-Turkish military agreement was no accident either. The United States remains our most important ally, but it is clear that Central Europe does not currently play a leading role in their policy. This provides a lot of room for maneuver for a particularly aggressive Russia. must prepare for further provocative actions by his vassals, including Lukashenko. At the same time, we must also pay attention to building alliances in Europe. Everyone is counting on the stronger. Weakness and mistakes have no place here.
Tomasz Sakiewicz, Gazeta Polska, editor-in-chief, 06.09.2021.
