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Yes, Polish resentment for the Russians is off the charts. Solzhenitsyn would point out that it wasn't the Russians, but there was bad blood between Poland and Russia before the Communists walked on history's stage.

Sadly for Poland, they have tied their future to the dying, perverse American Empire. Young people in Poland are no different from their morally broken brethren in western Europe and the US. Poland would have been better off siding with their fellow Slavs to the east, but righteous anger over the previous 45 years made it impossible.

Pope JPII was deeply saddened that Poland had pushed away from Communism only to embrace the worse aspects of western "freedom."

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Well said and sadly true. I even tried to broach this with Poles while living there but there were few minds open beyond what entered the ear canal. Their last election of a year ago was sketchy. A globalist new party akin to Macrons en Marche emerged out of nowhere months before, completely astroturfed to lure young people away from the nationalists to give the globalists their historical pawn back. Now that lispy retard Tusk is back in the driver seat. No elections are free and fair anymore.

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Yet another tragedy unfolding for a country grown accustomed to them over the last few centuries.

"Poland is Not Yet Lost," so says its national anthem, but in all its tragic history, Poland has never faced an enemy as ruthless and evil as the globalists. They're coming for all of us.

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The globalists are an old enemy they've faced before, I believe. Weall have, I guess, for a long time. The Treaty of Versailles implemented a Saturday Sabbath in Poland, if I remember correctly, which must have raised some eyebrows in Catholic Poland.

I was struck reading GC's piece about the prominent role played by propaganda and inflammatory rhetoric. I'll bet it was of the "let's you and him fight" variety.

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When you wrote that phrase - let’s you and him fight - a couple of posts back on your stack, it was one of those truisms that is like the proverbial lightbulb moment. I’ve been using it ever since in comments and private face to face conversations.

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And I picked it up years ago from Steve Sailer. It has wide applicability. The whole CRT thing, for example, is, at bottom, exactly that.

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Democracy can probably work in small, homogeneous places deciding whether to repaint the bleachers at the high school, but it clearly has not worked for us. 58 standing ovations in an hour for the bloodiest war criminal on the planet? Stick a fork in it.

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Can anyone say, Democracy Now aka NGO's. Kicked out of Russia I believe.

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Orthodox Russia was resented by Catholics in the West. This one reason is at the core of the trouble, and it is coupled with geouwish banksters resentment of Russia and you can conclude the reality of the current hysteria.

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Bankers' resentment of Russia does play a large part in this current strife. They have little regard for the Ukrainians, too, whose lives they are profligately spending to strike at their ancient foe. Two Slavic peoples dying like flies. Win win, for the bankers.

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I'm curious as to what the worse aspects of western "freedom" are? I argue that they are not freedom at all but license.

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Indulging in all manner of vice.

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