Poland has suddenly become a threat to the West's democratic-liberal political order, at the forefront of the struggle to defend this political order from what it suddenly sees as a prime enemy: Russian President Vladimir Putin and what is perceived in the West as his "imperialist" expansionist plans.
Until recently, US President Joe Biden refused to meet with his conservative Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, because of the conservative policies, in the eyes of the US Democratic administration, of the current Polish government.
The EU is also preparing to impose economic sanctions on Poland for "violating EU values."
Washington and Brussels find themselves committed to recalculating a route with respect to Poland, because as one wise Jew said: everything is relative.
Demonstration in support of Poland for neighboring Ukraine, Photo: EPI
The attempts last summer to flood Poland and through Europe with "refugees" from the Middle East and Africa who were brought to Belarus with the encouragement of Moscow were only a trailer for the escape of real refugees from Ukraine who are now seeking refuge in Poland.
As long as Ukraine served as a defense barrier to the eastern borders of the European Union and NATO, its right-wing government in Poland could be patronized and its repeated warnings of the real threat to Europe ignored.
Now, Poland is becoming a front country.
The British already understood this and launched advanced defense systems made in Poland.
In the 1950s, the capital of Poland gave its name to a military alliance that the USSR established with its metamorphoses in Eastern Europe as a counterweight to NATO's military alliance.
The "Warsaw Pact" collapsed with the collapse of the USSR and the Communist bloc in Europe in the early 1990s.
Since then, Poland has been careful to move away from Russia as quickly as possible, fearing that it will not soon give up its grip on Eastern Europe.
Demonstration of support for Ukraine in Poland, Photo: EPI
While Western European countries did not really take seriously the warnings of Poland and the three Baltic states, and were confident that they would succeed in undermining Russian spheres of influence by supporting democratically and Western-oriented opposition elements, Poland maintained a practical and realistic approach. Russia.
The growing coordination between Warsaw and the former "Eastern Bloc" countries - those that have joined the European Union and NATO and some of those who do not yet but share the feeling of the Russian threat - has stabilized Poland in the European arena.
Today (Friday) the leaders of nine countries that were formerly Russian metastases are supposed to gather in Warsaw to form a united front with Moscow and force the West to take their concerns more seriously.
The biggest suspicion is that after the attack on Ukraine, the Kremlin will try to destabilize the Baltic states, where significant Russian minorities live.
Another concern is the existence of a well-armed Russian enclave, Kaliningrad, between Poland and Lithuania.
The Russian attack on Ukraine is rightly considered an attack on the "new world order" created in Europe and the world after the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Putin, seeing the threat to Russia's security interests stemming from NATO's expansion into Moscow's traditional spheres of influence in Europe, is trying to produce a new European map.
This places Poland at the heart of the new inter-bloc conflict.
And this is a reality that Israel must also recognize.
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