Turkey has initiated an offensive in the Syrian Kurdistan region, after being given the green light by the United States. American troops left the possibility for invasion wide open to give themselves security. Just a moment ago, the Kurds were a key US ally in the fight against the Islamic State. Now, once their job was done, they could be pushed aside.
This is how real politics work, when the resources of allied empires are shrinking and are not sufficient for governing on multiple fronts. The Kurds lost 11,000 lives in the war against the Islamic State. They counted on allied gratitude, they believed in “blood capital.” Just like Poland has many times in the course of history, especially during the Second World War.
Merkel confirms Polish fears about Nord Stream 2
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that she and Joe Biden are on the same page over the Russian-German gas pipeline
Will Germany pay the price for recent change in US policy towards Nord Stream 2?
“Biden’s potential agreement with Germany won’t be credible to European interests,” states professor of political science Marek A. Cichocki
Polish foreign policy turns to China as it finally begins playing on ‘two political pianos’
Poland’s main asset in international politics is its geographic location, and the country is starting to use it to its advantage, writes columnist with the pseudonym ‘Thansunke Witko’
Can Gab’s Andrew Torba knock-out Mark Zuckerberg?
People should follow in the footsteps of the founder of the GAB social media and not give into pressure from Big Tech, writes Bazyli1969 at his blog at salon24.pl
Coronavirus heralds an American nightmare: opinion
Americans have survived several crises but the coronavirus pandemic might test American society like nothing before
Donald Tusk is the reason Smolensk plane wreckage is in Russian hands
Where is the wreckage? Exactly where Tusk left it. In Russia’s claws.
Nord Stream 2: symbol of a marginalized Central Europe
Russia is getting its way with Nord Stream 2.
Poles to travel to the US without visas from November 11
Poland has waited nearly 30 years for visa-free travel with the US.
How Poland’s parliament symbolizes our new age of illiteracy
Social media and politics equals an age of illiteracy.
In the eyes of the world
We aren’t any better than the previous generations.
Mosbacher comments on her letter to Morawiecki
US Ambassador Georgette Mosbacher explains that she “doesn’t really understand the frenzy” around her letter to PM Morawiecki. Mosbacher underlines that the US values freedom of press and is convinced that such freedom exists in Poland.