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Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

As in Edith?

I was thinking about William. :)

For some reason, he was immensely popular in Poland (all his books were published in Polish) and his novels topped the bestsellers' lists. There were even books about Wharton and the phenomenon of his popularity in Poland by Polish authors (Fordoński and Podolska).

I never understood the hype but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum and all that.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [956]

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Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

Because Steinbeck wasn't a socialist

He was Polish socialists' favourite though - if anything of American literature was read on Polish universities during PRL, it was Steinbeck. They loved him!

What do these acronyms stand for?

Special Military Operation/Full Scale Invasion

I'm 57 and still wear them daily from May- September.

Ah, collecting admiring glances from every lady in the neighborhood, and one death glare from your wife. :) Don't we all?
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

War is a young man's game.

Well, you are right to some extent, but I spoke to a quite brilliant young Russian from St. Petersburg recently. I taught him Physics last year* and he visited me at the beginning of this school year and told me a lot about himself and about his plans for the future. Despite being very young he expressed no excitation whatsoever with the war in Ukraine, he even told me that most of his friends in St. Petersburg are not interested at all in the SMO/FSI. Funny thing though, he told me he gave up on Warsaw as his choice of university because there's too many Ukrainians there. :) During the school year, however, I never noticed any animosity between Ukrainians and Russians/Belarussians.

* in case you're wondering, apart from Ukrainians we got quite a few students from Belarus and Russia as well after 2022
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

Similiar instincts to football games come into play

You beat me to it, BB. :)

Football was invented for endorphins. It works much better than dismembering women and children with artillery. At least for me.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

We are made for so much more, than seeking each other out, and then blowing each others brains out.

If it took a smart guy like you three and a half years to figure this out, then this SMO/FSI will last for another three years at least before the general population catches up. :-/
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

Ayn Rand and her opportunistic ideological heroes all hated Christianity

No wonder. Her heroes have their own happiness as all the moral purpose of their lives. Randism is a cult of selfishness and personal achievement at all cost. It's a mix of capitalism and satanism.

I got Mary Barton, South Riding, Love on the Dole, and A Scot's Quair; now I only have to find time to read them. I've recently read Keep the Aspidistra Flying - it was hilarious. :)

Anyways, I read Gorky and Steinbeck and it didn't turn me into a socialist, so I wouldn't hold my breath, Jonno.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

look at all of the movements on that chess board called world politics!

I try to, but it makes me dizzy sometimes!

When Russia realises the blunder. A deal or a peace treaty can be signed.

Another optimist. :)

Oh, well... I really hope you're right, guys. *fingers crossed*
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

... and now Medvedev is raging against Finland...

wydarzenia.interia.pl/zagranica/news-miedwiediew-otwarcie-grozi-panstwu-nato-jak-przed-atakiem-na,nId,22303493

Ehh... get ready, boys...


Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

'elite failure'.... (when people in charge are simply not up to the job)

Indeed. The lack of elites in the West these days is appalling.

We'll make a good Socialist out of you yet.

I try to be a good Christian and that's quite enough for me. Socialism has this annoying tendency to eventually developing gulags, censorship, and meat and cheese ration cards. No, thank you.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

the West is still in the starting boxes....confused, arguing, scratching heads

Exactly!

When Ukraine loses Donbass and invades Poland to regain "Закерзоння" and compensate for the loss in the east, the West will be so confused that they will probably still send Ukraine weapons and money before they realise what's happening.

with Russia losing

Can you realistically see Russia losing - with the USA no longer giving too much of a toss and European NATO being what it is?

Our future safety would depend on the mood in the Kremlin!

It will always depend on the mood in the Kremlin unless at least 4 EU countries (Poland, Germany, Finland, Romania) develop their strong and independent nuclear forces.

Ukraine would become the first clearly drawn border of the so called new world...and all behind would be safe.

Oh, your eternal optimism, BB! :)
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

if you see the world with a view of a new developing Cold War

That's the point. The Cold War was when the USA and Soviet Union made proxy wars somewhere in Asia or Africa and we read about it in newspapers. When Ukraine is invaded and soon maybe Poland, then there is nothing cold about it - indeed it is very hot!

would you want to win in the end

It all depends on the price. I shall ask again: is the West invading (or in ANY meaningful way punishing) Hungary and Slovakia? No? Then why should Poland not conduct similar policies: remaining the part of the West while maintaining friendly relations with Russia? If Slovaks and Hungarians can, why can't we?

As I said, it depends on the price. If the victorious West means millions of Poles dead and Poland razed to the ground once again, then I suppose I'll take a rain check.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

the question is, whom do you want to win?

If only it was so easy, BB. If only.

It's not like we have to tick a box: (A) victorious Russia (B) victorious West, and that's it. There are many shades of grey between and a different option is good for Portugal and different for Poland. Hungary and Slovakia are conducting strongly pro-Russian policies. Are they being invaded by the West because of it? No, but they are safeguarding their interests in case of Russia going full retard.

We have much more to lose in case of the ever-more-likely war with Russia than we have to win in case of Ukrainian "victory" (whatever that means, and which doesn't exclude Polish-Russian or Polish-Ukrainian war anyway). Especially that Ukraine was never friendly towards Poland - they were your pupils, your Waffen-SS boys (they still cherish the tradition!) and today they even refuse to acknowledge the genocide they commited against Poles.

It's not all that black-and-white.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [956]

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Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

the title question is still valid - do we risk more being allied to Russia or being eternally hostile towards her?

Can anyone answer the question already?

No?

OK, I will give you more time to think. Just don't take too long... until the answer is more than obvious.
Torq   
9 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

and a huge reconstruction bill?

Especially that whatever reconstruction money Russia throws at Donbass, the EU can throw ten times and more the amount into Ukraine proper, so eventually an average Ukrainian will live a much better life than an average Donbassian (not to mention an average Russian). This will inevitably lead to huge resentment.

The price was exorbitant.

Now imagine what the price for the war against NATO will be, because all the signs on heaven and earth show that Russia will invade a NATO member in 3-5 years.

you are yanking my chain

I'm not. Show me one post where I praised the cowardly London "government" or the bunch of retards who decided to start the Warsaw Uprising instead of preserving the most patriotic youth for the coming reconstruction of Poland (it was blatantly obvious in late summer 1944 that Germany will lose), and saving the civilians of which we had already lost millions by then. Just one.

Don't get me wrong. September soldiers were heroic (as our soldiers usually are) and the Warsaw insurgents' bravery was legendary. Slava to their memory. But the "gentlemen", the "szlachta" who caused all that should be cursed forever and their names covered in infamy until the end of the world.

Polish peasants always paid the price - storming Russian cannons with scythes and suffering blood, tears and hunger. Polish intelligentsia populated the gulags, concentration camps and secret police basements, getting a bullet to the back of their head as a reward for their patriotism. Meanwhile, the "gentlemen" in London argued for the governmental positions and dreamt of regaining power after the war.

Warcholstwo, prywata and liberum veto is what Poland could always count on from our "gentlemen". F*ck them with a broomstick.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

gentlemen like you

I am most emphatically not a gentleman but a former skinhead and currently a working intelligentsia member, thank you.

Gentlemen caused partitions, ran away to London in 1939, and started the Warsaw Uprising. F*ck 'em.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

a sore point for the Poles

Not for me.

Soviet Union under Gorbatchev (1990) admitted responsibility and expressed regret for the executions, and later (2010) Russia did the same.
Putin was the first Russian leader to attend a memorial ceremony at Katyń.

Good enough for me. That Georgian c*nt, Stalin, killed more Russians than Poles.

Russia didn't pay as much as Germany?

They paid with the lives of 600,000 soldiers who died kicking nazis out of Poland.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

September 1, 1939

We will never see invasions like the one in 1939 again. Way too expensive for today's bankrupt world and way too many young men taking part in them for today's demographically collapsing nations (both Russia and the West).

Half-arsed SMOs is all that we will get, and repelling a half-arsed SMO is not beyond the capabilities of a determined and brave medium-size nation like Poland.

I win.

I would tell you what you win but I decided to be nicer to people.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

your points are pointless

My point is that if Afghan sheepshaggers could defeat the invaders from both Soviet Union and the USA, then perhaps not all is lost for the rest of us.

I can expand on mine

No, thank you. You already wrote all you wanted to write here a cuntillion and eight times; no point writing it again for the cuntillion and ninth time.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

Is there anything unclear in the above?

You've been repeating the same thing over and over again for about three years now but none of points 1-3 is by any means certain yet.
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

Poland is growing very fast in the right direction all by themselves is my way of thinking.

Growing during peacetime is one thing, Johnny. Properly preparing for war is another.

Poland should already be building Swiss-style territorial defence and train (re-train) adult population for military service. Unfortunately, it's not happening. HIMARSes, Apaches and K2s won't win the war - it is the grey soldier that decides any prolonged conflict. Poland is, to a large extent, a victim of her own success - a G20 economy and practically non-existent unemployment make military service unattractive to majority of suitable men, and it is men in uniform, trained and ready to fight, that Poland needs the most.

Maybe the Slovaks and Hungarians got it right? The USA is not going to invade them, Russia might, so why take any chances?

I am shamelessly bumping the thread because the title question is still valid - do we risk more being allied to Russia or being eternally hostile towards her? Food for thought...
Torq   
8 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [186]

Ukraine is not Poland's friend

Never was.

Russia will win anyway

All depends on the definition of 'win'. Every country plays their cards the best they can, but I'm afraid there won't be many 'winners' after the dust settles.