Christopher Lash

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Good piece but not enough about the main tensions that have led many Poles to become far more anti-Ukrainian since the early months of the war

Tbf I was quite surprised that the anti-Ukrainian part of Polish political discourse was so successfully stifled in the aftermath of the invasion. Put it this way, Polish society is deeply sceptical towards Ukraine for historical reasons (and prejudice has always lurked beneath the surface)

I'm not sure how to find a way out of this impasse and Polish-Ukrainian relations are at their weakest point since the invasion. It's actually rather sad that when the conflict eventually ends, the 2 countries which were seemingly on such good terms will be potentially uncomfortable neighbours/ends

Just to underline, I don't just blame the Poles for this (although this is clear populist nationalist politicking from Nawrocki). Ukraine has been at times tonally deaf to Polish concerns and counted on complete support in a lackadaisical fashion. In addition, there are issues which need resolution

The fact that it hardly showed its face in the aftermath of the invasion shows how existential a threat Poland initially considered the situation to be. As the conflict has become less existential and more normalized it was always likely that tensions would emerge

Tbf I was quite surprised that the anti-Ukrainian part of Polish political discourse was so successfully stifled in the aftermath of the invasion. Put it this way, Polish society is deeply sceptical towards Ukraine for historical reasons (and prejudice has always lurked beneath the surface)

To all proof readers. Please do not be overly thorough and intrusive when looking through proofs. My current article the proof reader has gone a bit ballistic.

Finding Poland's boasting of the fact they recognized Palestine a bit of a self own as it happened before the fall of communism when Eastern European countries all supported the Arab side anyway

Russia's over there (thus the obligatory black clouds 😉). At a little village called Piaski (Nowa Karczma) at the Polish Baltic Sea coast very close to the border

Possible highlight of my stay at the Polish coast; an 8 year girl with a t-shirt with the words 'I love saying dumb sh*t' on it. Would be interested to find out the conversation that preceded the purchase

Some kind of weird in-joke perhaps?

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

Trump's decision to attack Iran two days after saying he might do so in two weeks and now talking about regime change makes me feel that we're in some completely twisted, insanely sped up version of 2003

a group of men in tuxedos are sitting at a desk with their hands on their faces . ALT: a group of men in tuxedos are sitting at a desk with their hands on their faces .

People who've done academic research on the Iraq war watching what's going on

Definitely something to read!

I have often been asked about the reasons for the Czech Republic’s uncritical support of Israeli actions.

I am happy that I can now refer to the forum published by the Czech Journal of International Relations that features a range of experts on different aspects of the Czech policy on Israel 🧵 1/7

Btw all these people saying Sikorski would have beaten Nawrocki. I'm sorry but wtf? Sikorski has the biggest negative electorate of anyone apart from Tusk in PO. Like the left liberals would have turned out to vote for him. Laughable

Got it.

He has hardly anything to do with Trump, he's met him once. This is all about domestic politics

Starmer has less excuse though, he has a great majority. Tusk and Poland has a patchwork coalition with a pretty conservative member (the PSL). But still he and it still should have done much better

Oh and PLEASE don't write Trump had anything to do with this, or even that it fits larger international narratives. Almost everything in this election is about domestic trends. Just look at the stats/demographics and compare them to previous Polish elections and get back to me /ends

b) potentially at least attempts some of its legislative agenda which it hasn't even touched to show the electorate it's lost that it's worthy of voting for. All of this while Nawrocki makes it very uncomfortable for them and the far right plot their route to power in 2027