By Constantin Radut
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine brings new variables in Eastern European geopolitics. If until yesterday the two most important eastern flank states in NATO, Romania and Poland, seemed equal in the face of US options, now there is a profound change in approach and status of the hierarchy in this part of Europe.
Poland had and still has, in theory, problems blocking relations with the EU, especially in terms of the rule of law and the relationship between domestic law and EU treaties. The situation has become so critical that the Polish resilience program has been postponed sine die.
The war in Ukraine came “in time” for the skillful politician Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński, the incumbent PIS president who has Mateusz Morawiecki as his puppet prime minister. J. Kaczyński has led Poland’s foreign and security policy so well that he recently, as Deputy Prime Minister, together with three PMs from Czechia, Slovenia and Poland, visited Kiev on an ad hoc basis. they have developed Washington’s awareness-raising strategy to act more decisively and proactively in the area, in Poland’s interests.
Romania, led by Klaus Johannis, sat and contemplated the situation, participating in multilateral events, but without any obvious external initiative. Neither the President nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
So now the dice have been rolled. Andrej Duda, the president of Poland, declares himself a regional leader.
Today, he visits both the Republic of Moldova, the country that is, theoretically, under the area of influence of Bucharest, and Romania.
According to a press release, “The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, will pay a visit to Bucharest on Tuesday and will be received, at 16.00, at the Cotroceni Palace, by President Klaus Iohannis.
According to the Presidential Administration, the two heads of state will have one-on-one and official talks, at the end of which they will make joint press statements. ”
The events would not be so significant if it were not known that at the end of the week, the President of Poland, Duda, will have talks in Warsaw with the American President Joe Biden.
The US president preferred an intermediary instead of a wider conversation with leaders in the region. It is an obvious signal that the US is not giving a damn about the Strategic Partnership which, among other things, such as Romania, has encouraged the US military industry.
Andrej Duda will therefore be the messenger of the Eastern European countries bordering Ukraine, in front of the Strategic Partner, J. Biden.
Of course, in the face of the Strategic Partner, the President of Poland will only support the Polish cause:
– equipping Poland with new weapons from the US;
– the transformation of Poland into the spearhead of the reconstruction of post-war Ukraine;
-Poland’s independence from Brussels’ claims;
– the establishment of a strategic and military command in Poland and the transformation of Romania into a military suburb of Poland.
In addition, Poland will do its utmost to raise in its own treasury the more than 2.5 billion euros it says it has spent on Ukrainian war refugees.
Why does Romania, which has received at least half a million Ukrainian refugees, not appear in the top statistics of the refugee-receiving countries? So that Poland does not share this financial prey with anyone else.
I did not think that the motto and the “Intermarium” wish of the autocrat marshal of Poland, Józef Klemens Piłsudski, would be fulfilled. The creation of an “Intermarium” federation, comprising Poland and other independent states located in the geographical area between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, is now being built in the 21st century.
Maybe I was wrong.
Romanian politicians will be held accountable to history.
Did Bucharest capitulate to Warsaw? Intermarium is about to be built in the 21st century
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