“RIP Poland” 😂 I do not believe that these liberals and mild socdems will fix the country problems, like collosal inequalities, church power, nationalism etc., but I feel relieved that these fascist fucks from PiS will not hold education any more (4 year at least).
I am also afraid that the new government will lean towards conflict with Russia. On the other hand, the new government is seen as more pro-UE (“German agent”, as Kaczyński literally said about the new leader Tusk) than pro-US, and the previous government were literally US lapdogs, and I think, from the whole west, US are more interested in the conflict. I suppose, no drastically different politics will be seen.
Is there significant dissent towards the absurd level of militarization that Poland is proposing, or do the people agree? From the numbers I’m reading, it looks like Poland is looking to surpass rest of the EU combined in firepower. Are neighboring countries okay with it?
Zero dissent in Poland. Most of people don’t care at all, and rest do not believe this will come to pass since Poland military is a cold mess and our military expansion projects in last two decades were without exception a duds (though expensive). Like we build a corvette ship that took 19 years and ultimately became biggest and most underarmed patrol boat in the world. Or the mess with helicopters which is so convoluted even the ministry probably lost the plot themselves. Or the WSI affair when PiS govt destroyed military intelligence agency and most likely compromised what passes for national security here on every level. Or the Territorial Army which was supposed to be PiS private army and ended up with a formation completely unable to any actions which will probably be either dismantled or turned into army reserve since polish army as whole have drastic lack of manpower and zero reserves among population.
That’s all true. It is lucky that, while PiS is a kind of villain, it is also a bunch of incompetent amateurs, so damage made by them has some limits. One may call it the shit-Midas effect – everything they touch turns into shit, with some exceptions, like a very small reduction of inequalities by the 500+ program. Fortunately, as being said, the earlier governments were no better in militarization.
I didn’t consider the incompetence angle since I know little about the actual situation there. On paper, it looked like Poland was going to have a super army, a lot of debt, and little else. That’s a volatile mix but ineffective bureaucracy saves the day this time.
Hard to say what will be results, i can only be sure of two things:
I would said that the PiS and PO are exactly the same US lapdogs, PiS was just more open and crude about it. And being more pro-EU? Even if true, it’s just an extra step in being US lapdog, since in last two years EU as a whole way passed even the normal polish level of bootlicking US.