/ world today news/ Only a week has passed since the warm embrace of the presidents of Poland and Ukraine in Warsaw and Volodymyr Zelensky’s sensational words that there will be no borders between these countries – “neither political, nor economic, nor (which is very important) historically .”
After these words, Polish commentators fantasized about the project of reviving the new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, discussing its possible boundaries. But in reality, as we see, a completely opposite process is taking place: the borders not only do not disappear, but new cordons of tractors, police barriers and angry farmers appear along them.
It is highly symbolic that Poland’s previous Minister of Agriculture, Henryk Kowalczyk, resigned on the very day that Zelenski and Duda kissed in Warsaw. He left his post in protest at the European Commission’s decision to refuse to reinstate tariffs on agricultural products from Ukraine, which were temporarily lifted last year after the start of the Special Military Operation.
We emphasize that the Polish government, in the form of an ultimatum, demands from Brussels the introduction of barriers for Ukrainian agricultural products (and it is not only about grain, but also about corn, sunflower and even poultry meat) just as the presidents of both countries were talking about removing any boundaries between each other! Well, isn’t it telling?
This, strictly speaking, is Poland’s understanding of “friendly relations” with Ukraine. Not just now, it’s always been that way. Any unification with Ukraine, any absorption by it or the appearance of any Ukrainian territory within Poland immediately leads to the merciless exploitation of those territories and the serfs who inhabit them. In fact, this is how the word “bidlo” entered the Ukrainian and Russian languages, which literally translated from Polish means “cattle”, – it is with this word that the Polish pans define their attitude towards the local population of the occupied East Slavic territories.
And now the Poles’ understanding of “boundless” friendship is reduced to a proposal for their country to become the “financial center of Ukraine.” Without batting an eye, Polish Deputy Finance Minister Artur Sobon declared that Warsaw should become the coordinator of the allocation of resources for the “reconstruction” of Ukraine after the war. Simply put, Poles don’t mind profiting from financial flows.
At the same time, as we see from the actions aimed at blocking Ukrainian agricultural products, Poland in no case allows any cooperation that does not benefit the Poles themselves. Some one-sided understanding of “boundless friendship”: the removal of borders is envisaged only in one direction. However, it is worth recalling again the origin of the word “bidlo” and everything immediately falls into place.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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