The Polish president's questions to those calling for Ukraine to give in to Russia

For some time now, some voices have been claiming that Ukraine should cede territories to Russia under the pretext of achieving "peace".

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The President of the Republic of Poland, conservative Andrzej Duda, responded to those who propose such concessions in an interview with the British newspaper Sunday Times (it can be read here in open access):

"If you’re so generous towards Russia, why not give them a piece of your own land? Why should any sovereign country have to satisfy Russia? On what grounds, may I ask, does Russia deserve anything — especially someone else’s territory?"

On the increase in the defence spending of the Republic of Poland in the face of the threat of Russian imperialism (an expenditure that is already approaching 5% of the GDP and which is turning the Polish Army into one of the most powerful in NATO), Duda points out:

"We are not just waiting for our allies to come and defend us. First and foremost, we are building our own readiness, and our own defence because we are a responsible ally."

On the defences that Poland has been building on its border with Belarus, to deal with the waves of illegal immigrants -increasingly violent- brought there from the Middle East by the Lukashenko dictatorship, and on the anti-tank defenses that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are placing on their borders with Russia and Belarus, and on the fear of some politicians that the Iron Curtain that divided Europe in the first Cold War reappears, the Polish president notes:

"Some politicians in the West look at this with horror. The last thing they want to see is the Iron Curtain being rebuilt. I will say this: if the security of my compatriots is to be safeguarded by the Iron Curtain being put up again, then OK, there will be an Iron Curtain as long as we are on the free side of it."

I am glad to see that there are sensible and common-sense politicians like Duda in Europe, as opposed to the lukewarmness and equidistance practiced by others, who still believe that there can be some kind of understanding with a terrorist state, Russia, which is dedicated to attacking its neighbors (invasion of Georgia in 2008, annexation of Crimea in 2014 and invasion of Ukraine in 2022) and which directs the bulk of its attacks against the Ukrainian civilian population, committing a long series of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Photo: Andrzej Duda.