News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

The bottom line is, that the true arguments for and against NSII are economical. Poland does not want it, because it would lose bns as a transit country and the USA does not want it, because it would like to sell its' gas to Europe. Which are perfectly valid motives. But so are the arguments for NSII, which would save Germany and other countries billions.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

Well, he mentioned the fear that Russia could blackmail Europe via North Stream II, that was his one argument against it. The rest was apparantly about Nato, and asking Germany to spend 2% on its' defence.

I have also found artickes that stated that the Sczeczin harbour issue had been solved by late 2017 by a comission.

The blackmailing argument does not hold a lot of water, since Russia only accounts for a relatively small part of Europe's energy supplies, and the European countries nowadays have large emergency storages that could last them for more than a year, enough time to e.g. import it via LNG. Not to mention that this is a very double edged sword. Russia knows that its' only argument against those fears is its' decades long reliability as an energy supplier. Once it loses that status, it would be impossible to get it back. Which would mean the loss of hundreds of bns in revenues over the years. That is huge deterrence for them to pull that stunt, which again might not work that well anyway.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

That problem has long been solved.

Even your PM did not bring it up in a recent interview with Der Spiegel.

spiegel.de/politik/ausland/umstrittende-pipeline-polens-regierungschef-kritisiert-nord-stream-2-scharf-a-111f7e00-88d8-480f-8fd7-7cb5f1613133

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]

If Poland becomes independent in its' energy supply thanks to LNG, then what problem does it have with NSII?

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


Sure, but it goes directly against what he promised. He said that he wanted the Europeans to foot the bill for the defense - a bill that doesnt really exist - but that has npt stopped him from spending even more money on defense. Spending more than you have on deterrence can also turn out poorly for you, as evidenced by the Soviet Union. And Trump has certainly created a debt problem.


Because America spends most of its' defense spending in Asia and the Middle East, so it does not matter how much the Europeans spend on their defence. In the end, the Americans will not save any money despite any increase in European spending. Furthermore it is generally in bad taste to complain about others supposedly not carrying their weight, when those others are still fighting in a war that you started and in which you asked for their help. Sure, Nato is very beneficial to Europe because it guarantees their security, but at no actual additional cost to the Americans. It were actually the Americans who placed a financial and military burden on their allies by dragging them into Afghanistan.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


Aside from the fact Merkel has little actual involvement in this project - mostly done by German buisnessmen and local politicians of the cities that serve as destination - this is hardly cantradictory. Countries like Poland and the Ukraine are also receiving Russian gas and are acting as transit countries, despite viewing Russia as their number one security risk.


You see, that is part of the false narrative that Trump is feeding you to later justify leaving Nato. American defence spending is almost exclusively centered around Asia and the Middle East, and European soldiers are still fighting in the only war that triggered the Nato defence article, namely Afghanistan. I mean it is not Trump has done anything to decrease American defense spending, on the contrary actually.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


Are you really accusing the one Western politician who has always been sceptical of Putin as "pro-Russia" and who coordinated the sanction regime against Russia after the Ukraine crisis as pro-Russia?

Say what you want about Merkel, she has been the first German politician who placed more importance on having good relations with Poland than with Russia, and it is a pity that PiS has done everything to sabotage that for domestic reasons. I suspect that many people will only realize that once she is gone, and the next German chancellors' follows Macron's approach of reconciliation with Russia.


There is a very clear pivot in the foreign policy of the USA away from Europe to Asia, that started already under Obama. Trump is de facto working on the dissulotion of Nato, making it slowly more acceptable for Americans to leave, by feeding into the false narrative that it does not benefit the USA. And that poses of course a challenge to Poland.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]

Which is not true. Poland played an important part in the EU's Eastern policy and was among those who pushed for closer association the Ukraine. Poland was close to catch up to the Western European powers in terms of influence and form a decision-making trio with France and Germany.

Just a pity to watch it all being sqaundered by PiS.


That is just laughable. Few things have been more desired in Germany than for Poland to become wealthy and thus buy more of our products.

History / Poland - problem for Germany? (historically continual hostility of German state on Poland) [154]

Always interesting how nationalists confirm the worst impression of each other.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


If we are being objective here, the country who has lost political influence since 2015 is Poland due to PiS isolating the country. Poland is de facto excluded from any initiatives in Bruessels. Compare that to back under PO when Poland was a partner of France and Germany and helped formulating the EU's Eastern European strategy. Poland is now in a precarious siguation. It has alienated Germany and France, the UK is with Brexit about to lose most of its' European cloud and the USA are increasingly more isolationistic. PiS has so far not provided an answer how to get Poland out of that predicament.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]

@Miloslaw

I think you are confusing Germany with the the UK here.

History / Why is Vatican traditionally on German and not on Polish side? [65]

I think you are too harsh in your assesment.

The Church under Pius XII did in fact a lot to help jews, e.g. by falsifying baptism certificates, and the pope himself was later thanked by the newly established state of Israel for this help.

He also - unlike some of the more conservative cardinals- never had any illusions about the nature of Nazism, and even wrote a highly critical enzyklia about it. He only stopped with his open criticism when it became clear that this did more harm than good, (by making the Third Reich crack down on all priests who published it for example), but he nevertheless encouraged those who criticized the regime, e.g. the famous archbiship Galen of Münster. Something that is often overlooked is that for most of his pontificate, Europe was basically devided between two totalitarian regimes who were deeply antireligious and who used to persecute priests. Not to mention how the Vatican was directly in reach of the Third Reich. In the end, he had to manouver under those difficult circumstances with limited ressources (as Stalin quipped: How many divisions does the pope have?) and without any guarantee (far from it in fact) that the worst part would be over by 1945. While there is certainly room for criticism, it can not be doubted that the Church had a very positive influence from 1939-1945.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Firstly, I would like to have a source on that claim and specifically how long that believe was supposedly taught. Estimations in the first few years were generally inaccurate because western historians had no access to the archives in Eastern Europe where most of the killing happened. Not to mention that those archives were often still incomplete due to the war.

Few subjects have been as thoroughly researched as the Holocaust, so we know have a very detailed picture of it. This includes more than 5m names. How do you explain that away?

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Because we know for certain that 5-6 million people were killed, it was just back then up to debate where and how. The number historians came up with starting with the 1950s had nothing to do with the claims of the Polish dictatorship that wanted to use the death toll for political means, so of course there was no need to reduce the number. See like this, we know the number of American soldiers killed in Europe during WWII is around 450-550k. which can proven by the documents about the fallen soldiers. Now imagine if the memorial at Normandy used to claim that at Normandy alone, 450k americans had been killed to play up its' importance, and would later be forced to reduce the number. Would we thereafter reduce the number of overall Americans killed? Of course not, since one unscientific claim does not invalidate the reliable documents we , and the same counts for the Holocaust victims.


Such as? You must be able to point to some, because they must be really famous if they contradict the number of 5-6m people. More than 5million whose names we know, I might add. If you refer to the claim that Red Cross documents show a significantly lower number of deaths, then this has been long debunked.

fullfact.org/online/holocaust-death-toll/

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Because we have a better understanding where and when they were killed. We know the names of more than 5m jews who have definitely been killed, so that number is not going down. The initial impression was that most of the killings were done in Auschwitz, but ever since the 1960s we know that a lot of it was done "decentralized". The number in Auschwitz was deemed as incorrect long before it was finally corrected, because Polish governments were keen on it being the main killing site for political reasons.


Because the Nazis kept lowering the bar on what it meant to be a jew. Initially after 1933, being a "half-jew" meant that you faced little discrimination, while it could later mean certain death. People were also increasingly required to prove that they were aryan, and it often tutned out that they had a mother/grandmother who was born jewish, but converted to christianity early in their life and never considered herself jewish.


Holocaust denial in a nutshell. There is no way to explain hundred thousands of documents, so they just pretend that they dont exist. Fun fact, I am currently researching the history of a small science society, and thus looking into documents that have not been read for decades. There is a massage among them, informing the society that one of their half-jewish members (who was baptized as a baby, and lived 70 years considering herself a good catholic) died during "the evacuation to the East". In truth she was deported to Auschwitz and died there. There is no way anyone could or would have faked this.


This is hardly surprising, directly after the war when official bureaus were often overworked, understaffed and possibly partly destroyed. Trying to find out the correct number killed is an ardenous task, and requires researching millions of documents. Which is why numbers changed, but successive generations of historians have done a good job by narrowing it down. Which is why no one can lower the number below 5.1, since this is the number of victims whose name we have. If you want to lower it, you must explain what happened to the others.

Law / Moving back to Poland - Healthcare [29]

That seems like a generalization. Poland has probably more new roads, since it build a lot of them with EU funds, but so does Germany particulary in East Germany. Considering the number of cars (domestic and foreign drivers) on German roads, I would argue our streets are pretty good.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

So we ignore just the hundred thousands of documents which are deposited in thousands of archives across Europe that combined confirm the number of 5.1m-6.4 murdered jews?

Holocaust denial is an exercise in futility because the unrefutable evidence are not the "flashy" exhibits like the pictures and gas chambers, but the incredible large paper trail left behind by the Nazis, which would have been impossible to fake (let alone without a trace). This is btw. the reason why Holocaust always focus on the "flashy" evidence because they know perfectly well that there is no way to otherwise explain the documents, so they just pretend that it doesnt exist (and their gullible followerd usually dont know of them anyway).

Law / Moving back to Poland - Healthcare [29]

Yeah, healthcare in the Nordic countries is as good as it gets. Though I would argue that the German system is fairly decent as well. Keep in mind though that living expenses in Sweden can be quite high, and the taxes are also very high. A friend of mine lived in Sweden for one year, and while he enjoyed it, it was a very expensive pleasure.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


And yet, it will soon be completed. And soon other muslims elsewhere in East Germany will also get one. Your side loses, like it always does. We'll drag you into the 21th century, if necessary kicking and screaming.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Remember, if you become a public official, you are told that your behaviour reflects on the Bundesrepublik and that breaking laws can extra consequences because of it. If a police officer is caught giving the e.g. the Hitler salute, or inciting violence online, he should be reported since he violates his oath. If I am paying his pension, I can at least expect approbiate behaviour.

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


It is not like anyone forced him to post his picture, identity, or his disgusting posts here. If he is really a German police officer, then he must know that writing posts that violate German laws cound get him into trouble. He wouldn't be the first one who might see consequences for this. I've saved his picture and posts and will write a long report to the German police when I have the time, they have even a contact person for such cases. Should be interesting, let us hope for him that his probationary period is over.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


You are the one who is so utterly fixated on the act of love between two men that you constantly have to graphically describe it, as if you feel the need to verbalize your own unfullfilled fantasies. Usually the closed gays are the ones who are obsessed with gay peoples love life.

As for the rest. You are a man who spends hours every day spewing hatred against other groups in a foreign country. Doesn't sound like a particulary happy life to me.

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Still better than being an impotant, depressed old man who spends his final days ranting against people who have never done anything against him in a country he has no connection to. You are just pathetic. A man scared of anything. Burglars, muslims, LBGTQs, who can only sleep with a gun beside his bed and who seeks validation by insultings others via the Internet.


Dont project your frustration on others. Just because you never had the courage to be with the man you loved, does not give you to begrudge others of their happiness.

Rest assured in the knowledge that none of what you believe in will survive you for long. My generation will fix what yours has so utterly failed in. ;)

News / President Duda rules out homo marriage in Poland as banned by the constitution [172]


Recent history has shown us that change can be stalled, but then arrive very suddenly. Just look at Ireland, the most catholic country in Western Europe, which has now caught up with most developments. For Poland it is also just a matter of time.

Hateful old bigots like RM are a dying breed, replaced by a generation that has more human decency than them.

News / European funds - why Poland should refuse to receive them. [36]


You are aware that centralism and federalism are two completely opposite concepts right? You can't push for both of them.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

You see, that is the difference between Europe and the USA. You can point to a few incidents over the years where mass shootings happened, while we can point to some during the last few months. The mass shooting in Paris is so exceptional because it is completely out of the ordinary. In the USA it would have been just another Las Vegas.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


And all of them have a reason to own them and are regulary checked upon. If someone wants to have a gun for e.g. hunting and is willing to invest time and money to get it, and shows that he can trusted with it, he should have one.


So is the fear of getting killed by a break-in. Gun advocats want others to accept an increase in gun violence and mass shooting for the purely hypothetical scenario of a break-in, or a "tyrannical government" taking over. A government that would possess drones, tanks, jets. I like the fact that children dont need to be educated how to behave during a mass shooting, and I hope it stays that way.

youtu.be/0rR9IaXH1M0?t=254

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


It is no just an opinion. The only two reasons why someone realistically needs a gun is for hunting and sport. If you are a hunter you should have one, I just hope for the sake of your family you are a responsible gun owner.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Because gay marriage doesnt impact me in the slightest, it does not pose any danger to me or my loved ones. Nor am I discriminating against someone by arbitrarily withholding basic rights to a group of people that others enjoy. If we had gun laws like in America, we would see an increase in mass shootings and police violence, both of which would have an impact on me. Guns are not something you should buy at Walmart, or keep lying around in your home. If someone wants a gun because he is a hunter, or is in a shooting range, then he should be able to buy one after he does the required background check and passes surprise inspection that prove that he keeps them safely stored.

However aside from hunting and sport, there is no rational reason to own a gun. I prefer my right of not living in fear from mass shootings ober the right of someone who wants a gun because he saw too many Cowboy films.Just because Americans have come to see mass shootings as something perfectly normal, does not mean we should do the same.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]


Hence my original point. Polish people dont need them, hence they should not have them.