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The prime minister “until he ran out of words”! Strange, because nothing works so well for him in life – like words. An avalanche of words is his trademark, an invisible punctuation probably felt somewhere in the area behind his ear. He can talk for hours and, like a cobra, hypnotizes people who are not very attentive and at the same time unwise. Meanwhile, one must be careful and one must also understand. The first rule is that our prime minister is listened to and read backwards and upside down. The second rule is that reality is exactly the opposite of how Donald Tusk sees and describes it. And third and finally, the rule, don’t bother too much, because as Stanislaw Gomulka, a Polish physicist and economist, used to say: “What concerns me is what Prime Minister Donald Tusk does not say.” So, what Prime Minister Tusk says is not so disturbing.
Now to the point. On Wednesday, the European Parliament passed a resolution on strengthening EU defense. It also adopted an amendment proposed by the PO-PSL delegation in the European People’s Party (EPP), as a flagship project for the EU’s common security. Meanwhile, Law and Justice (PiS) and Confederation deputies voted against it, which drew the ire of our pocket dictator.
At issue is the 66th point of the adopted resolution, about which MP Pawel Jablonski of the Law and Justice Party said: “What is in this resolution, that is, the demand to end unanimity in defense votes, its introduction would end up with member states being deprived of the right to veto even in matters of their own army. KO MEPs yesterday backed a system that turns the EU into a parastatal governed by the biggest, by Brussels formally, but practically by Berlin and Paris,” explains Mr. Jablonski, adding what the adopted resolution will mean if it becomes law. – The European Union may impose on Poland how large an army we can have, because they may consider in a while that too large a Polish army is something that provokes Russia. We can’t provoke Russia, so Poland is supposed to have an army of less than 100,000 soldiers, for example. They voted for this yesterday.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tusk sees no such threat: “When I hear these arguments from PiS, I feel like tapping my head,” he said. – PiS apparently very confused, joined the Confederation with this vote and then these idiotic translations today, this is something that exceeds even my imagination.” The Prime Minister was succored by Deputy Prime Ministers Kosiniak and Kamysz (copyright by Katarzyna Kotula): “The vote of Law and Justice and Confederation MEPs against the recognition of “Shield East” as a flagship project for EU security is not a vote against the government’s proposal. It is a vote against the security of the Homeland and against the Polish raison d’état. The masks have fallen,” the ZSL leader thundered.
MEP Anna Brylka of the Confederation responded to these accusations by addressing the deputy prime minister, sending him to the boards in concert: “We voted against the European defense debt mechanism, which will take away our decision-making power over our own defense investments,” Bryłka wrote. “We voted against anyone other than the Polish government deciding on GDP-dependent support for Ukraine,” he points out. “We voted for the freedom of the Polish government to buy the kind of armaments we want, from whom we want and how much we want, instead of being just a table in the all-powerful vision of the European Commission.” – He adds. “Finally, we voted, on the 26th anniversary of Poland’s entry into NATO, against NATO-bis, which is just being designed in the interests of the German and French defense industries – and which ultimately could harm our orders from South Korea or the US.” – emphasizes the National Movement politician. “We supported the amendment on Shield East, but we will not agree to the further rollback of Polish sovereignty and the surrender of further such strategic competencies to the European Commission.” – She stressed. “Given the PSL political tradition to which you refer, I am shocked and disappointed by your attitude,” she added. Only on this last point does MP Brylka surprisingly miss the point. For the fact that I think I am a young, handsome and multi-talented man does not at all imply that I am in fact such.
The whole thing was aptly summarized by President Kaczynski, who summed up the vote in the European Parliament: “The vote was not about 'Shield East,’ which, unfortunately, for months has been only an image project, not a real one. This is another example, after the recent opinion of the CJEU, undermining the primacy of the Polish constitution over European law, of the EU interfering without a basis in the treaties in the competences of member states.” – The Law and Justice leader stated.
The late Prof. Boguslaw Wolniewicz (of the first government of the prime minister from Sopot) said that “nothing good can be expected for Poland after the governments of Tusk and Co.” He would probably repeat these words even today, if only he were alive.
