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A comment about yesterday’s president 🇺🇦 #Zelensky visit in 🇵🇱 #Poland - the context was very sensitive but fortunately everything worked well. Why was it sensitive? 🇵🇱 Nawrocki is in an awkward position where he must remain loyal to his right-wing electorate, but at the same time fulfill the duties president of Poland. It’s not a criticism, just a statement of fact that is usually true for any elected politician with one particular voter base. Polish right-wing is a broad spectrum between people with moderate religious and conservative but generally pro-EU and pro-Ukrainian views (PiS), down to complete Putinist freaks. Most importantly, even anti-EU parties like “Konfederacja” are divided. Thanks to numerous splits, the 🇷🇺 freaks are now mostly concentrated in “Konfederacja Korony Polskiej”. Polish “liberals” (KO) chose to appeal to the centrist and left-wing electorate primarily by vilifying the whole right-wing. Daily political activity in Poland is infantile bashing between KO ministers and Nawrocki on a level so miserably stupid that is only comparable to MAGA. Mutual accusations of being “pro-Russian” because someone visited Moscow as a diplomat in 2009 are a daily occurrence. In reality, it was PiS government that took all the refugees and send the first heavy weapons (MiG-29, tanks) to Ukraine in the first days of 2022 when other countries reluctantly offered helmets. PiS had done many bad things, but this thing they’ve done right. Because the narratives have to be 100% black-and-white and “liberals” took the Ukraine topic, Nawrocki clearly felt compelled to play the opposite side. That is, the right end of his spectrum, which I was concerned would mean appealing to freaks obsessively talking about Volhynia and nothing else. If that would happen, if Nawrocki eventually took the tribal side and decided to “play hard” with Zelensky, that would be a total disaster. Once again it would demonstrate that Poland is unable to operate as a single country and is doomed to remain a chaotic and unpredictable tribal entity forever. Fortunately, that did not happen. I’ve listened to the whole 🇵🇱 Nawrocki speech in the presence of Zelensky. Nawrocki said all the necessary things about joint strategic goals and unity, and didn’t say anything unnecessary. He did mention “difficult topics” like Volhynia exhumations but even that he mentioned in a non-confrontational context of ongoing cooperation, which is a fact. He talked about military cooperation too. And when he talked about Volhynia and “gratitude” because that’s important for his electorate. 🇺🇦 Zelensky’s talk was in the same tone, so I won’t go into details. Yes, we have common goals; yes, unity is critical; yes, there are difficult topics and we are jointly working on them; yes, we also cooperate on military topics and we will do more. ✅ They were talking business. No hugs, no kisses, but honest business talk, and that’s precisely what they needed. ✅ I was a bit concerned about the outcome of yesterday’s visit, but it all worked well. And it gave Polish PM Tusk later full right to say that the worst news from yesterday’s Presidents’ meeting came out to be for Russia. Tusk met with Zelensky too late at night after he came back from Brussels, bringing the news of 90b EUR “loan” for Ukraine. Overall ✅✅✅ for both countries and Europe.