I thought this could never happen. Especially not when it comes to our Polish brothers. We have just reached the point that unfortunately their current decision cannot be described with humane words.
The Poles decided to extradite to Ukraine the Ukrainian men who fled to them from the war. In other words, they cheat the refugees who come to them, and send them en masse to the slaughterhouse. The move may be justified legally, but not humanly. Mainly not, because the Poles also know exactly what awaits the repatriates.
The Ukrainian pianist made it clear: impeachment, conscription, sending to the front, ultimately death.
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, but not too far away, precisely in the so-called West
they are not supporting refugees, but illegal migrants who, if they were deported back to their country of origin, would not even be threatened by a light touch.
They don't deport because they can't pass their filter. Even though there are millions of people without any legal title in the given country, they cannot be removed by force because it is inhumane. And then there are the lawyers who pronounce the ban on deportation in court.
Will we experience the same in Poland?
I mean, a series of humane procedures? Do they actually use violence against those who refuse to return to where they fled? It is not out of the question, since Ukraine is supposedly fighting for Polish sovereignty and the freedom of Europe, soldiers must be given to them. Not from our own, but from those who until now could feel safe on Polish soil.
Our dear Polish friends, what would you think of us today, if at that time Hungary, the Horthy regime that lied to the fascists, did not flee, but drove back to Polish territory your soldiers and Jewish compatriots who fled to us and through us to the West with the cry to go fight?
Hey, my friends, how short is that historical memory!
You say it is quite different. No, my dears, nothing else at all. In the same pumpkin, pepita.
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Of course you can moralize. It can be argued that fighting for the country is not a right, but a duty. One could say that running away from this duty is cowardice. Maybe even true. But it is not mandatory to be brave and it is especially debatable whether it is worth it for a power like the USA (since they are the main sponsors and instigators of the war) or for one which, according to Ursula von der Leyen and her colleagues, is already so democratic that only the it bans opposition parties, imprisons opposition politicians, takes priests to court, classifies churches as close enemies, where corruption is the solution to every situation and where crippled and mentally disabled people are forced into uniform with such brutal violence that in the Middle Ages, when they were rounded up and lined up people, it starts to look like a desirable period in comparison.
I know that the Russians mean something completely different to Poland than to us, even though we too were maimed by the "liberating" Soviet soldiers and their descendants.
However, I don't know why, being a NATO member country, you believe that the Russians (who are no longer Soviet!) would dare to attack you? You should also be aware that such a move would immediately invite all NATO allies to war, which Russia or Vladimir Putin would not risk under any circumstances. What is this unreasonable fear?
And what about throwing humanity in the dust?
If you take this step, what will those Western politicians do, who are already up to their necks in Zelensky's stupidity?
I guess, in the case of Ukrainians, there would not be the great solidarity that is due to illegal migrants. It would not cause them sleepless nights if hundreds of thousands more perished in the senseless war. After all, a Ukrainian who doesn't want to fight and die is a bad Ukrainian, unlike Zelensky's cannonballs are very good Ukrainians. Or really good heroic dead. Of course, there may be those who killed a few Russians every now and then, but that was before the war, let's forget it.
According to the Geneva Convention on Refugees, the ban on deportation also applies to those who have not been granted refugee status, if their life and freedom are threatened. In the case of Ukraine, both are true.
Our Polish friends, come to your senses!
What they planned may be allowed by the law (if it is designed that way - ed.) , but humanity certainly won't.
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