“These people are not people we are used to… these people are Europeans.” Kiril Petkov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, Associated Press, March 1, 2022 In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal human characteristics have often been overlooked in favour of the particular: race, […]
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Will Poland Expand Its Territory At The Expense Of Ukraine?
An introduction of Polish troops seems the most realistic of the existing options of quick assistance to Ukraine. If this happens, it would be a big victory for London and Washington in the short term, but the consequences of this in the long haul will be hard to predict. Just […]
Moscow Confronts ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’
Americans use the slang “lockstep” recalling a characteristic trait of their prisons of the 19th century when inmates had to shuffle step due to the chain that linked their legs. But the US President Joe Biden used that powerful evocative metaphor to convey on Monday that his country and Germany […]
Ukraine, Belarus In The Eye Of The Storm
Wouldn’t that be a delicious irony — the British defence secretary Ben Wallace rushing to Warsaw on Thursday to work up detailed plans to strengthen Poland’s border fence with Belarus? Britain had partnered the US in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and is now the self-appointed protector of the […]
Manufactured Cruelties: Belarus, Poland And The Refugee Crisis
Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments. They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions. They can also be manufactured by the refusal of governments to accept those seeking asylum, sanctuary and refuge. The latter is very much in evidence in Europe: governments of the European Union […]
The Truth Behind Eastern Europe’s Migrant Crisis
These deeper strategic dimensions show just how complicated the Eastern European Migrant Crisis is. Eastern Europe’s Migrant Crisis has taken the continent by storm and unexpectedly become its top security concern. Poland accuses Belarus of waging “hybrid warfare” through “Weapons of Mass Migration” as an asymmetrical response to the West’s […]
Poland’s Eastern Migrant Crisis Has A Psychological Effect On Its Population
What follows are five observations about how all of this has instilled fear and fury in the hearts of so many Poles. Much has been written over the months about the potential reasons for the Migrant Crisis that Poland is presently facing from Belarus, where several tens of thousands of […]
Poland Threw Down The Gauntlet To The EU
Should EU law be imposed upon Member States in contravention of their constitutions, then the bloc risks creating a dangerous precedent that would lead to the erasure of state sovereignty and the accelerated creation of a centrally managed entity divorced from the democratic control of the same people that it […]
The Geopolitical Challenges & Opportunities Of Poland’s Three Seas Initiative
Observers should continue paying close attention to Poland and the 3SI that it hopes to continue leading. This collection of countries has impressive potential even if it could be manipulated for regionally divisive ends. It deserves to be taken seriously and not dismissed. Are The Three Seas Rising Or Receding? […]
The Three Seas Initiative And Global Britain
In September 2021, the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Poland published a report entitled “Three Seas Initiative and the Opportunities for Global Britain”. He and the report’s three coauthors are British citizens of Polish descent who lobby for cooperation between the two countries. The group’s chair, MP Daniel […]
NATO’s Baltic Air Drills Spoil The Geneva Spirit
Relations between Russia and the West remain tense in spite of the Kremlin’s best efforts to improve them without compromising on its interests so it would be best if these drills were suspended or at the very least reduced in scale and not held so close to its borders. NATO […]
Weaponised Refugees And Hybrid Attacks
Refugees and asylum seekers provide rich pickings for demagogues and political opportunists. The Australian approach politicises their plight by arguing that they are illegitimate depending on the way they arrive, namely, by boat. The twentieth anniversary of the MV Tampa’s attempt to dock at Christmas Island with over 400 such […]
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