Seeing as how both sides are now officially prioritizing their national interests, and recalling that these are contradictory on sensitive issues like agricultural cooperation and historical memory, the future of their relations doesn’t look as rosy as before. In hindsight, positive impressions of their partnership were really just an illusion since Poland wants hegemony over…
Its political power was cemented last summer after the Rada granted Poles practically the same rights as Ukrainians in accordance with the promise that Zelensky made to Duda in May 2022, while the economic aspect was advanced through mid-July’s opening of the first “Ukraine Reconstruction Service” office in Lvov. That being the case, there isn’t…
Some sort of solution to this spat appears inevitable no matter what’s ultimately agreed upon since the EU doesn’t want Polish-Ukrainian tensions over this sensitive issue to fester and lead to unpredictable consequences. Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki promised last week that his country will continue prohibiting the import of Ukrainian agricultural products upon the expiry…
If PiS still orders the armed forces to conventionally intervene in Ukraine after President Putin just tried to deter them from doing so, then there’s a chance that the Belarusian and Wagner forces that are drilling just around 20 miles away from that war-torn country’s border could storm across it to stop their Polish opponents….
The interests of Belarus, Wagner, and Russia have already been served, which is why none of those three has any motivation to escalate the situation with Poland, but the Polish leadership might think that it could gain even more than it already has if border tensions become just a little bit worse. Belarus’ recently announced…
Germany can now claim to be a more reliable long-term military partner for Ukraine while Lithuania will partially replace the role that Poland could have played in repairing Ukrainian tanks, both outcomes of which complicate Warsaw’s regional leadership plans but it has nobody to blame for this but itself. A German Defense Ministry spokesperson announced…
