that can move at 20,000 miles an hour
That's what people like Cms don't get.
You and I, Novi, we are engineers (although I am reduced to teaching jobs these days ;)) and we understand that technologically Russia (and Ukraine!) is way ahead of Poland. During PRL Poland was a backwater, without access to the best technology; we had a bit of our own but it was strictly controlled and limited. Ukraine, on the other hand, was in the very centre of Soviet science, technology and industry. I already mentioned the level of my Russian and Ukrainian students in Physics and Maths - the way they are better than most of their Polish peers despite having to learn in a language foreign to them. That's why today they can lead successful drone warfare, conduct long-range strikes and produce high quality weapons of their own, whilst we have to (with very few exceptions) buy everything abroad for exorbitant prices. My children will pay all their lives for the weapons that Poland is buying now.
But we still have this idiotic feeling of superiority towards everything east of us. That's mental retardation. Someone wise once said "those who have nothing often cling to megalomania". If only we could find in ourselves a bit of humility to learn from both Ukraine and Russia, it would only serve Poland well. Not everything, of course, but the things that they do better than us. We prefer, however, to look down on them and see them as wild Asians that need to be civilised.
A lot would have to change for Poland to emerge unscathed from this entire affair. Alas, unless Iron becomes the Prime Minister and I the President (or the other way around), Poland will have to suffer and bleed way too much, again.