Paulina
20 Mar 2022 #6061
@Alien, we're not only in NATO, we're also in the EU.
I am afraid, Poland will share the fate of Ukraine without USA and NATO.
Not necessarily. We don't have a big Russian minority like Ukraine, Estonia, etc. and lands viewed by Russia as ethnically or historically "theirs". With weak NATO Russia wouldn't have the excuse to attack Poland. Poland could become another Switzerland :) But, of course, that would come with a price... Poland would have to be "pragmatic", as Russians call it, like Germany. So, we would have to stop caring about stuff like democracy, freedom of speech, human rights, forget about giving moral support to Russian opposition getting killed or being sent to labour colonies... We would have to turn a blind eye to the invasion on Ukraine, Estonia, etc. and smile and shake hands with Putin :)
I don't think as Poles, considering what we've suffered, we would be able to do that - to show our backs to smaller countries, to the brave opposition in Russia, to tolerate evil... So, yes, I'm afraid that not only we need the US and NATO, but the whole world needs it, unfortunately...
I can't believe the deportations thing is correct - why would they waste trucks, troops and gas doing that ?
You're not thinking like an autocratic dictator... Why invade Ukraine in the first place? :))