Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Victoria Nikiforova
[RIA] The Russian army will reach the Vistula in a week, liberating all of left-bank Poland. She will not encounter any resistance. The Polish army will try to gain a foothold on the right bank of the Vistula, on the bridgeheads Grudziadz - Torun - Bydgoszcz and Otwock - Garwolin - Ryki. They can stay there for no more than two weeks. Further, it is unclear whether the troops of NATO allies will still arrive to help the Poles, or whether the Russians will have to accept Warsaw, Lublin and other provinces on the list into Russia.
This is not a fantasy scenario, this is a very specific, and top-secret plan for the defense of Poland from a sudden Russian invasion.
Surprisingly, it was not leaked by the hypothetical Edward Snowden, nor was it obtained by our invisible front fighter. The Poles did everything themselves. The secret plan was personally declassified and leaked to the public by the Minister of Defense of the Polish People's Republic, Mariusz Blaszczak.
It’s a rather unusual move on the part of the Minister of Defense to release secret documents that were compiled together with NATO allies into public view. It is possible, of course, that Blaszczak is taking an example from his British colleague Ben Wallace , who innocently told the pranksters Vovan and Lexus that in Britain they were running out of ATGMs in warehouses. A policy of complete openness, sort of.
However, in reality this is what the election struggle looks like in Poland. Parliamentary elections will take place there on October 15. Mariusz Blaszczak belongs to the ruling party PiS (Law and Justice). The main rival of the Pisovites in the elections is Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform party.
When Tusk was prime minister in 2011, Polish strategists developed a powerful plan for the defense of their homeland, which boiled down to quickly withdrawing immediately, then imitating defense for another two weeks, and then - in case their NATO allies did not support them If they harness themselves, they will go home.
Now Blaszczak has declassified this plan and posted its first page on video with the caption: “Attention! In the event of war, the Tusk government was going to surrender half the country!” This is, like, a national traitor, don’t vote for him, citizens.
It must be understood that half the country that, according to this version, Tusk wanted to merge is Eastern Poland, the home of far-right nationalists, the original electorate of PiS. And Tusk with his “platform” represents the other half of the country, led by Warsaw . In the minds of the population of Eastern Poland, these are depraved, decadent liberals who champion gay pride parades and LGBT people. Accordingly, in the view of the Civic Platform electorate, the east of the country is populated by unwashed, backward conservatives, who, given the opportunity, could easily be surrendered.
So from a political technology point of view, the stuffing was a success: Blaszczak deftly pressed on all the pain points of both his own and the enemy electorate. However, is it permissible for the Minister of Defense to leak secret plans, even if they are no longer relevant?
The European publication Politico notes outrage among Polish generals at this election move. “The publication of such a document <...> proves that we are capable of anything, that we can give away the most important secrets of Poland and NATO,” journalists quote retired general Waldemar Skrzypczak.
The Minister of Defense under Tusk and the husband of the famous American propagandist Anne Applebaum, Radoslav Sikorski, called the publication of the document scandalous. He also noted that the country has few fortified points and listing them in the plan could have intelligence value for Russia. It’s also unclear why such things should be voiced publicly - well, okay, he’s probably in the heat of the election campaign.
Even in peacetime, such a scandal would look ugly. But today Poland is one of Washington’s main proxies in the Ukrainian theater of military operations. From there supplies come, mercenaries arrive, weapons are supplied and streams of Russophobic propaganda flow.
The country, which is not rich, to put it mildly, has increased its defense spending to 3.9 percent of GDP (despite only two percent being required of much wealthier NATO members) and is trying to double its 120,000-strong army to 250,000. For such sacrifices, the Polish establishment convinced the population that they were the tip of the spear of NATO and the most important vassal of the United States on the European continent.
There was active trade in the “Russian threat” for this purpose. Even more NATO bases, even more purchases of American weapons. The Polish establishment did its best to push the Americans to start a world war against Russia.
And then suddenly there is such an affront - the main NATO activist is leaking military-strategic secrets. Moreover, the essence of Poland’s plan turns out to be to actually surrender half the country. What happens - today the Polish leadership is doing its best to provoke Russia, sparing no effort, igniting a world war, posing as the main outpost of Europe on the path of the Russian barbarians, but at the slightest sign of a real threat, it plans to simply retreat and wait for help from its alliance allies?
All this somehow bears a bad resemblance to Poland’s provocative policy on the eve of World War II. The same aggression, overheated nationalism, attempts to get involved in Ukraine and Belarus and at the same time a masterly ability to almost present oneself as a victim of aggression and demand reparations. Oh, it’s not for nothing that Winston Churchill once spoke about the “hyena of Europe”.
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