And a big gift for Putinoids has already arrived. They are joyfully celebrating the results of the Polish elections. The “We told you so!” triumphalism on Putin’s state-controlled media is intolerable. The isolated Russian dissidents are literally pulling their hair out.
A Gift for Putinoids
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Well Kaczyński (leader of the winning party) hates, hates, hates Russia and Russians and wants NATO bases set up in the country.
But he hates pro-western Polish people more, so maybe they’re happy about that…
The winners are not quite as pro-Ukrainian as the departing party but usually manage to come down on the correct side of Ukrainian issues so there shouldn’t be any big changes there.
There’s a lot of hype around the results but they’re not that surprising. People had been getting fed up with the ruling party because it was in power too long and was getting too slow and too complacent (and young people are fed up with the idea that they have to emigrate to have careers).
What made it a rout was probably Angela Merkel. Her generally positive relationship with the ruling party was absolutely toxic after Merkel’s folly in September and the million guest march.
Before that I never actually heard everyday people complaining about the EU but people are starting to check out a little mentally… nowhere near ready to quit but the first chink in the arm has apeared – a German making big unilateral decisions and expecting Poland to meekly follow along plays really,really badly in Poland (as you might guess).
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Excuse me, but why are the “Putinoids” happy that a far-right, anti-Putin party that wants to increase involvement with NATO has been elected?
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Putin passionately wants the EU project to fail. The victory of any anti-EU party is a great victory for him. His hatred of Europe and the EU is profound. Plus, he is far-right, the values he promotes are deeply conservative. These are his ideological twins. Now he can say to his people, “See? Europeans increasingly are disillusioned with the so-called Western values. They want to be more like we are!”
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Well, the EU and NATO are two entirely separate entities (Thank God!), and paranoid Putin can’t be happy about Poland’s desire to significantly increase the size of NATO forces in a country bordering Russia.
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