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The narrative here in Poland is in lock step with the rest of the west. Especially the American owned liberal media outlet that is billed as the only free and independent (not state owned) media outlet in the country. But I'm sure they get their creative directions from the CIA just like the media outlets in the states do. But my wife speaks to a lot of people about this, just like she has done with COVID, and many people here aren't buying it, and they're not happy with the situation with the influx of millions of refugees either. Not because they're heartless and don't care, but because of the outrageous laws that the Polish govt is passing furiously to accommodate them, to the detriment of Polish citizens.

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many have ended up in Krakow. Have you seen the flat rental market there? Went from hundreds of options a few weeks ago to almost nothing now. Unless the EU is paying I don't think Ukrainians are as poor as they say.

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4.5 years residency? Unemployment benefits? Job eligibility? Is the EU paying for all this or are polish taxpayers? This is absolutely crazy. Total scam! Ukrainian citizens covered by the Special Act are eligible to receive: (a) low income allowances, including (i) a family allowance, (ii) single child benefits, (iii) a nursing allowance, (iv) a care allowance, (v) a special care benefit, (vi) a parental allowance, and (vii) municipal allowances; (b) allowances for children living in Poland, including (i) child benefits (500 PLN for each child per month), (ii) a good start allowance, (iii) family care funds, and (iv) a nursery allowance

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/poland-s-special-act-assistance-to-ukrainian-refugees

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And this is only going to result in an extreme resentment towards the Ukrainians from the Polish that has the potential to become violent.

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'Invade Ukraine' level of violence?

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No, more of a civil unrest and fighting in the streets. Hopefully it doesn't happen, but if the Polish govt keeps putting them first, and giving them all these benefits that they don't even give to their own citizens, it could get real ugly here.

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The govt. should be using this crises as leverage against Brussels and the U.S./NATO who made it happen, embarrassing them every chance they get for billions in aid at the very least. Instead they're just giving away polish taxpayer money. Crazy doesn't even begin to describe it.

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And perhaps they would if they were their own country and not just a lackey for the west. Perhaps our own country would also truly be working for good here in Europe and the rest of the world if they weren't just serving their billionaire puppet masters and running their hegemonies, but their jig is almost up and with every good empire there comes a very hard fall. And when this occurs it will be amazing just how quickly the billionaires abandon it like a milk shake cup they've finally sucked dry.

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I guess.

But don’t forget that the civil unrest would be Putin's dream come true. Sowing distrust is only the first step.

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Kind of sounds like the benefits of crossing the U.S. southern border!!!!!

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Most of it is crisis actors. That includes the "refugees."

In Kiev, hotels are full of propagandists: "journalists" and filming crews.

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What is the state media's negative?

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On this topic much like covid, they pretty much just mimic each other like hypnotic parrots.

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So where do you go to for 'honest news'?

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We watch independent journalists on youtube, bitchute, oddysee, etc. and sometimes even their material is questionable. We take everything with extremely liberal grains of salt these days.

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In my experience, 98-99% of "independent" news are controlled opposition, covering non-essential or explicitly fake elements. As with CV19, most people lose focus, even when they think that they are independent thinkers...

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How do you know that you're not being feed Russian propaganda?

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Hence the comment of taking everything with a lot of salt, meaning we don't trust hardly anything these days. What we do know for sure, is that we may never know the real truth of anything ever again.

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