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US and EU should resist Russia – Kaczynski
Published: 30 September, 2010, 14:05
Edited: 07 October, 2010, 14:38
TAGS: Conflict, Scandal, EU, Russia, Politics, History, Polish President's plane crash
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of a Polish opposition party, has called on Europe and the US to counter Moscow’s influence abroad.
The chair of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, Kaczynski, has sent a letter to 738 members of the European Parliament, as well as to dozens of ambassadors from around the world, including the US, Israel, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, reports Polskie Radio’s website.
In the note, dubbed “Allies and values”, the politician urged the states to oppose Russia’s desire to extend its political and economic influence zones. In addition, Kaczynski believes that Washington and the EU should provide assistance to countries that want to get free from Moscow’s control.
Jaroslaw, the brother of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski who died in a plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk in April this year, also analyzed Warsaw’s foreign policy in recent years. During his brother’s presidency, the opposition party leader said, the emphasis had been on the union of countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
“We have done a lot to bring former Soviet republics – such as Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Moldova – closer to the EU structures and NATO,” he wrote as cited by Russia’s Regnum news agency. “While implementing our national and regional interest we were encountering with Russia’s foreign policy, which systematically restores its spheres of influence.”
Now, he lamented, “Neo-imperialistic foreign policy that Moscow pursues does not face counter-reaction from European and American political players.”
Kaczynski stressed that it is not only large states whose interests should be taken into account in international policies and insisted that the stance should be reconsidered. These were the principles, he said, his brother followed and “died for” in the tragic accident.
“Currently we are witnessing attempts to diminish the role of our region in Europe,” Kaczynski said in the note, writes Warsaw Business Journal. “[Russia] may seem attractive business partners, but they do not respect the values and standards that prevail in the Euro-Atlantic political sphere,” he stated.
The Smolensk tragedy has brought Moscow and Warsaw – whose relations were strained for years – closer together. The PiS leader, however, does not praise the two Slavic nation’s efforts to reconcile. On the contrary, he harshly criticized President Bronislaw Komorowski and the ruling Civic Platform party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk for what he sees as making concessions to Russia.
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Count Cash: "The game has always been to start illegal activities, to create circumstances of provokation, then cry that Russia or the SU is aggressive when it reacts, this has been the game through history" What was the provocation that caused "peace loving" Soviet Union to react and attack Finland in 1939? (And please don't say Mainila's shots as even Russian historians view this nowadays as Stalin's deed.) Count Cash: "Anti-Russians always try to perpetuate two frauds, the first is that Russia is the Soviet Union, the second is that Russia's or the Soviets Union's reaction to any hostile act should be regarded as the prime first act." Question about your logic here: If Russia is not responsible for the crimes of SU, is it still ok that it enjoy the "fruits of it's achievement" keeping occupied 10 % of Finnish land which was annexed in SU's aggression in WW2?
It's always quite comical to see the selective use of invasions in world WW2. I wonder why the Soviet invasion of Poland is seen as off limits by the west, to prosecute WW2, whilst the Anglo Soviet invasion of Iran is not, maybe its the Anglo bit in that, that makes it invisible. Explains a lot doesn't it! Indeed the Anglo Soviet invasion, including the detailed analysis by the US with its reasoning, serves as a good example of why it was necessary, justified and indeed required to do anything, to defeat the curse of Nazism that visited this earth. In Iran it was to deny the Nazis oil resources, in Poland it was to deny them forward staging areas and create buffer. Indeed if anyone had a case for complaining about an invasion it would be a thouroughly blameless Iran, wheras in contrast the Poles were fully culpable and contributory in the Nazi crusade, be it due to negligence or bad intentions. Again sphere of influence also provides for some mirth, I wonder why MRP is so important, whilst the Berlin Conference to partition Africa for the Europeans is not. I guess it is just because Russia didn't make the partition, and the Europeans also don't think that Africans are important! I suppose the western logic of the Munich Pact follows the same reasoning, because the Europeans were doing the Partitioning to create circumstances that the SU could be attacked, for European gain; so that was just dandy! I think we see some pattern here, if the European colonialists do anything it is OK, if the SU or Russia did something, regardless of it being backed by an overarching need and legitimacy aknowledged by even western academic analysis, it is wrong. Now look at today the west is illegally invading, torturing and raping in Afghanistan and Iraq, with numerous journalists killed in the process. But get this, the biggest problem seen by the west in Russia, is the death of a few journalists. Now that is western hypocrisy and anti-Russian, but what is new!
How Pappa Oscar Lima quite equates to Foxtrot India November, I do not know! But anyway, it is always interesting as an example to see the childlike immaturity and principles that anti-russians seek to deploy, for they do not live in an Adult world, they live in a protected childhood, where tantrums and rolling around on the ground is expected to get 'their' crayon back, and of course they never note the pulling they do on the other child, they just cry about the slap they get back. But all is not lost as long as adults remain in control, so the exremist cannot peddal their fantasy playtime on the rest of the world. Adults accept responsibility for the papers they sign and honour them, adults realise that crossing boaders on raiding missions is hostility, adults realise that secret military defence agreements between nations that lead to spying is hostility, adults realise that self defence is legitimate and that things get broken in the way. Adults realise that to ask All North Americans to leave the US and Canada and return to Europe is sheer childrens fantasy and nonsense, same for Austratlians, New zealanders, Israelis..... Adults realise that they are adults, and people are people and the world is the way it is, all toys don't return to the toybox, mum doesn't always get 'your' jumper back..... So the key for this world is to live as adults, to step above the childish tantrums, to do adult things, to create a civilised order within a just legal framework. We need talk, negotiate, follow law. The bully, the tantrum seeker, the gang mentality needs to be recognised as the child phase and corrected by the community of adults. In this world that is multipolar adults. Beware the extremist with childlike approach, because an adult functioning as a child in a playgroup with a gun is not a safe proposition, not for other childern or adults! Beware 'liitle' adults, as history demonstates quite clearly!