Intermarium-American

Paweł. Honest CEE perspectives in English. 1st gen Intermarium immigrant to the USA.
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[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

Euro-economists are a bunch of spineless propagandists.

Ten years ago, they presented Germany to us as the perfect economic model. Today, it is the Sick Man of Europe.

For an entire decade, the continent was subjected to the insufferable moralizing of Berlin technocrats and their cheering gallery of spreadsheet-worshiping courtiers. We were relentlessly lectured on fiscal sobriety, industrial virtue, and the divine wisdom of the schwarze Null. Every other country was treated like an irresponsible child that needed to sit still and learn from the Prussian masterclass of manufacturing and budget surpluses. If your economy struggled, it wasn't because the system was rigged or flawed; it was simply because you weren't German enough.

Now the curtain has been violently ripped down, revealing an absolute museum piece of an economy built on delusion, cheap Russian gas, and chronic underinvestment.

The grand German engine didn’t run on superior ingenuity—it ran on outsourced energy, outsourced defense, and a blind reliance on export markets that are now eating its lunch. While the technocrats were patting themselves on the back for balancing books, their bridges were cracking, their rail networks were descending into third-rate chaos, and their industrial giants were still communicating by fax machine.

Instead of admitting they championed a fragile, backward-looking mercantilist parasite, these same economists now shuffle their feet and whisper about "cyclical headwinds" and "structural transitions." They refuse to acknowledge the catastrophic failure of their own orthodoxies. They deindustrialized the heart of Europe to satisfy green fantasies and bureaucratic pride, shuttered modern nuclear plants in an act of staggering self-harm, and left the entire continent chained to an economic anchor that is dragging everyone down with it.

The arrogance was limitless, and the reckoning is absolute. The self-appointed high priests of European prosperity turned out to be nothing more than stubborn clerks riding the fumes of 20th-century momentum until the tank ran dry—and they still have the gall to look the rest of Europe in the eye and pretend they know where the future is going.

[Intermarium-American @Intermarium_USA]

They killed approximately 11 million civilians as part of the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews (3 million of them Polish Jews specifically). They also murdered 3 million non-Jewish Polish civilians. They also killed millions of Soviet Civilians, and somewhere in the range of 20 million Soviet soldiers, many of which died of exposure, disease and starvation in German POW camps.

[Naomi🏳️‍⚧️ @AramHalamech]

Nord Stream 2 wasn't built because 2010s Germany needed more gas from russia. We got enough volume from the Poland and Ukraine pipelines.

Nord Stream 2 was built so that Germany could still get gas even if russia starts conflicts with Poland or Ukraine.

That is a simple fact.

[Extra Strength Tylenol 🏴‍☠️ @MissesDread]

TIBET'S BORDERS LITERALLY GOT ERASED FROM THE MAP AND YOU LEFTISTS DON'T HAVE ONE SINGLE FUCKIN WORD TO SAY ABOUT IT AS YOU SIT THERE AND TYPE "FREE PALESTINE" ON YOUR MADE IN CHINA PHONE WITHOUT EVEN THE SLIGHTEST SENSE OF IRONY

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

Obama literally let Putin annex Crimea.

[Intermarium-American @Intermarium_USA]

Poor Daniel, you have been so demoralized that you fail to understand how a high trust society that upholds pro-civilizational values actually works. Thank god Poland still has real men like this - at least Polish women don't have to worry when they go out at night. Most women in the West sadly can't say that these days due to limp, feckless losers like you.

[PolsatNews.pl @PolsatNewsPL]

🗨️ @NawrockiKn na Westerplatte: To nie jest realny sojusz i realna przyjaźń, jeśli nie możemy postawić pomnika polskich ofiar II wojny światowej w Berlinie. Jeśli polska mniejszość w Niemczech nie ma takich samych praw, jak niemiecka w Polsce.
https://t.co/tYCzwVgYbK

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and started WW2.

The common misconception about the German invasion of Poland is that Germany basically rolled over Poland, which was helpless and unable to defend itself while Great Britain and France are remembered for having declared war on Germany and standing by their Polish ally.

Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Polish Army did not “roll over” but inflicted heavy casualties on the invading Germans while drawing them deeper and deeper into Poland, which left Germany completely exposed for a British/French attack, as was the agreed plan between Poland the UK and France.

The whole strategy of Poland in 1939 was based on the fact that the UK and France, which had signed defensive military alliances with Poland prior WW2, were supposed to attack Germany two weeks into the war at the latest.

The Polish strategy was to try to preserve the bulk of its army for this future planned offensive by drawing the German army deeper into Poland.

Once the western allies invaded Germany from the west, the Polish army would switch from defense to offense and the German army would be caught in a pincer maneuver.

If Russia had not invaded Poland in September 17th, Poland would have dragged the fighting for many more weeks if not months.

In many battles Poles held their ground against overwhelming German numbers, the most famous of these was the Battle of Wizna, where a single Polish infantry battalion with some 600 soldiers held out for four days against a whole German army consisting of 42,000 soldiers, almost 400 tanks and hundreds more of artillery and armored vehicles.

The Polish army fought very well, even though it was vastly outnumbered and heavily outgunned.

Just to put things in perspective, the whole budget of the Polish army, came to less then 10% of what the Germans spent on their air force alone.

The Polish army managed to destroy more then one quarter of all German tanks, hundreds of armored cars and the Polish air force managed to shoot down hundreds of Germans planes.

When the war entered its third week the Polish army fielded more then 250,000 troops and was still inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans.

Germany suffered over 60,000 casualties in the Polish campaign while the Poles suffered military losses of around 66,000 soldiers who were either killed or missing in action.

Thanks to Poland, all that was facing the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were 23 German divisions, the dregs of the German armed forces.

The French and the British had an almost 5 - 1 manpower advantage, overwhelming air, land and sea superiority and could have been in Berlin in three days time if they attacked.

Alfred Jodl who served as Chief of the Operations Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command throughout the war, stated at the Nuremberg War trials in 1945 that:

“If we did not collapse already in the year 1939 that was due only to the fact that during the Polish campaign, the approximately 110 French and British divisions in the West were held completely inactive against the 23 German divisions.”

But the UK and France chose not to attack a relatively undefended Nazi Germany, and instead backstabbed and sacrificed their Polish ally hoping that it would satisfy Hitler's and Nazi Germany insatiable appetite for conquest and bloodshed.

They were wrong, and the whole world would be made to pay the price for their dishonor and cowardice.

If the British and the French had honored their defensive military alliances with Poland and attacked Germany, Germany would've been defeated already in 1939, tens of millions of lives would have been saved, and the course of European and world history would have changed.

The fact how France and Britain had in effect betrayed Poland, their ally, and allowed Germany to conquer it, had been conveniently forgotten by many and almost airbrushed out of the general historical memory.

Poland did not lose the war because it was defeated by Germany or by the USSR,

but because it was betrayed by Britain and France,

her "allies".

[Dispropaganda @Dispropoganda]

On this day Germany invaded Poland and started WW2.

As a consequence of the five-year German occupation of Poland during World War II:

62% of Poland's industry was destroyed.

84% of all infrastructure was also destroyed.

The Germans looted literally almost everything they could, sending daily trains loaded with loot from Poland including 516,000 pieces of art many of which are still in Germany.

Tens of cities and hundreds of villages were destroyed, and the capital, Warsaw, was razed to the ground.

The Germans deported three million Polish people to the Reich to be used as slave labor.
Germany kidnapped 200,000 children from their Polish families.

Approximately six million Polish citizens were murdered by Germany. Three million Polish non-Jews, purposefully targeting the highly educated and skilled, and three million Polish Jews indiscriminately.

One in every five Poles was murdered by the Germans during World War II.

There was no opposition to this war in Germany or to what the Germans occupation was doing in Poland.

Overwhelming majority of Germans supported Hitler and the NSDAP and everything they did.

Any talk of "German resistance" to Nazism is an a-historical bad joke, as the number of Germans who participated in it could be counted as a statistical error.

Despite this unimaginable suffering and destruction, Germany has never compensated Poland or the Polish nation for their losses in the form of war reparations, nor has it erected a single monument commemorating these crimes, except for a single rock in a park in Berlin.

Not a single German Nazi paid for the crimes they committed in Poland against Poles and not a single German Nazi was ever extradited to Poland despite repeated and numerous request.

81 years later Germany has never paid its debt for what it did in Poland and Europe as a whole during WW2, besides empty rhetoric and lip service,

and it probably never will.

[Intermarium-American @Intermarium_USA]

Coincidentally, there are very public tensions in Poland right now with the Ukrainian community due to historical disputes over the Volhynian genocide (Ukrainian nationalists like to glorify people who organized mass murders of Polish civilians in Galicia and Volhynia during the 1940's)

[Janina @Ojdadana]

There were zero Poles in any Waffen-SS formation (unlike Ukrainians and many other nations). The ~500k figure refers almost entirely to forcible conscription into the Wehrmacht from annexed territories (Silesia, Pomerania) - itself a German war crime under the Volksliste system.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

This is the U.S. State Department travel advisory map

🔵 - Safe
🟡 - Exercise caution
🔴 - Dangerous, don’t travel

All 13 countries of the Three Seas Initiative in Central Eastern Europe are considered safe. The situation looks worse in Western Europe.

[Department of State @StateDept]

The United States stands with the people of Spain, and all Europeans, against this egregious violation of their sovereignty and human rights.

This unacceptable incident is the direct result of the Spanish Government's deliberate efforts to enable and facilitate mass illegal migration into Europe.

We are considering actions to defend Americans at home and abroad from this threat and stand ready to assist other European allies considering similar options.

[Clint Warren-Davey @Clint_Davey1]

Taught a lesson about the 1939 invasion of Poland today.

Years ago I believed several myths about this campaign, like Polish cavalry stupidly charging German tanks with drawn sabres.

When I teach on this topic now, I mention:

-The Poles were no pushovers. Germany suffered heavy casualties in this campaign and had to commit the vast majority of their men and tanks to win.

-Polish cavalry didn't charge tanks with swords. They dismounted to fight on foot and would use anti-tank rifles to fight tanks.

-The Poles continued to fight even after their defeat in 1939 - not only a massive guerrilla campaign in Poland itself but the Free Polish forces who escaped to fight alongside the British.

-The Soviets invaded from the east too. The Germans would probably still have won without this, but it really kicked the Poles when they were down. Of course, the Western Allies didn't declare war on the Soviet Union, which is interesting in itself.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I see I am being ritually insulted for my support of this man

The uneducated call me a racist

I am not a racist

I am a culturalist

I believe that some cultures are better than others

I prefer cultures to do not advocate stoning, pederasty,
wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents

Call me old-fashioned...

[Sebastian Meitz @MeitzPL]

“Przykład Polski wyraźnie pokazuje, że prawicowy rząd wcale nie jest zły dla mieszkańców. Ludzie są tam bezpieczni przed atakami islamistów. W Polsce, a także na Węgrzech, takie warunki, jakie tu mamy, po prostu nie są tolerowane.” 10/12

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

During World War II, the plight of Polish refugees evacuated from Soviet Russia to Iran in 1942 remained largely hidden from the public. The Roosevelt administration, determined to preserve its military alliance with Stalin, suppressed photographs and reports showing starving and near-death Polish men, women, and children.

Soviet atrocities, including forced deportations, starvation, imprisonment, and brutal treatment, were excluded from U.S. government Voice of America broadcasts. Polish evacuees were also discouraged from publicly describing their experiences because the Polish government-in-exile, under pressure from Washington and London, was still attempting to secure the release of hundreds of thousands of Poles held in the Soviet Union.

The situation worsened after diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile collapsed in April 1943. The Soviets then forced many remaining Polish citizens to accept Soviet citizenship, threatening them with imprisonment or separation from their children.

Entire Polish families had been deported and condemned to forced labor under the consequences of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Many Polish women lost husbands, children, and other relatives in Soviet captivity. Yet American wartime propaganda continued to portray Stalin as a democratic ally, a friend and even “Uncle Joe,” while ignoring his role in the mass murder and suffering of Poles.

Much of the evidence remained classified until 1952, when the U.S. congressional Madden Committee investigated the Katyn Forest massacre and released documents concerning the Soviet execution of thousands of Polish officers. Unlike the widely circulated photographs of victims liberated from German concentration camps, images of Polish deportees, Gulag prisoners, and refugees remained scarce in Western media, even during the Cold War.

The misinformation extended to Voice of America broadcasts, which repeated the Soviet accusation that Germany had committed the Katyn massacre. This helped conceal the truth from the American public and protected the image of Stalin’s regime during the war.

One of the few Americans to document what the Poles had endured was Lieutenant Colonel Henry I. Szymanski, a U.S. Army liaison officer attached to the Polish Army under General Władysław Anders. In November 1942, he submitted a report to the U.S. War Department describing the starvation, illness, and suffering of Polish refugees evacuated from the Soviet Union.

Szymanski photographed emaciated survivors and recorded the conditions faced by Polish women used as forced laborers in Soviet camps and collective farms. Many were compelled to perform heavy manual labor, and those unable to meet their quotas faced starvation, punishment, or exploitation by Soviet supervisors.

His report stated that Soviet policy aimed to destroy the Polish intelligentsia and break apart Polish families. Husbands were often arrested or executed, while their wives and children were deported to labor camps and distant settlements.

Polish women worked beside men in mines, forests, factories, and construction projects with almost no food, medicine, or protection. Faced with starvation, some were coerced into abusive relationships with Soviet officials or overseers simply to survive.

Despite these conditions, American officials and propagandists largely ignored the suffering of Poles under Soviet rule. Maintaining the appearance of Allied unity with Stalin was considered more important than revealing the truth.

To this day, much of the Western world remains unaware that well over a million Polish citizens were deported by Stalin’s Soviet regime, with many dying from starvation, disease, forced labor, and exposure under inhuman conditions.

Sources:

The Katyn Forest Massacre: Hearings Before the Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre.

[Edward Reid @ReidEdwardII]

Why Poland Is So Extraordinary

Poland is extraordinary because it endured repeated attempts to erase it from existence and yet preserved its identity, culture, and belief in freedom.

Historically, Poland should not have survived. Powerful neighbors invaded, partitioned, and occupied it, but the Polish people never abandoned who they were.

For 123 years, from 1795 to 1918, Poland disappeared from the map of Europe. Its lands were divided among Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and its language and identity were suppressed. Still, Poland lived on in families, churches, literature, and memory. Its borders vanished, but the nation did not.

That resilience is what draws me most.

I admire Polish history, culture, and especially the people—their loyalty, hospitality, humor, and strength. Poland has often stood between German and Russian power, yet it repeatedly emerged from catastrophe.

In 1683, King Jan III Sobieski helped break the Ottoman siege of Vienna. In 1920, Poland defeated the Red Army at the Battle of Warsaw, stopping Soviet expansion into Central Europe.

Poles also contributed to the freedom of others. Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko fought in the American Revolution. Some Polish soldiers sent to Haiti later supported its independence and settled there.

During World War II, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Despite this, it continued fighting. The government operated in exile, while the Underground State maintained secret institutions and resistance forces. Polish pilots distinguished themselves in the Battle of Britain, and Polish mathematicians helped break the Enigma code.

At the same time, Poland suffered immense destruction. German and Soviet forces targeted its leaders and culture. In 1940, the NKVD murdered around 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn massacres. Poles also faced a genocide from 1937 -1938 in the Soviet Union with the execution of 110,000.

Poles fought throughout the war, but freedom did not return immediately. Poland remained under communist rule until 1989, when resistance movements like Solidarity helped restore independence.

Poland’s achievements go beyond war. The Constitution of May 3, 1791, was one of the first modern constitutions. Warsaw, destroyed during the war, was carefully rebuilt. Poland also produced figures like Copernicus, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Joseph Conrad.

Still, Poland’s greatest achievement may be survival.

It endured partitions, occupation, terror, and dictatorship. Again and again, it was declared gone. Again and again, it returned.

Its story is not only one of suffering, but of resilience, of culture, faith, and freedom surviving against the odds.

Poland shows that a nation lives in its people and in what they refuse to surrender.

The deeper you look, the more extraordinary Poland becomes.

[Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT @lone_rides]

So the “defend democracy” people want to *checks notes* abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, and extend voting to non-citizens.

Guys, I’m starting to think they’re not actually wanting to defend democracy…

[Sławomir Dębski @SlawomirDebski]

If true, then the offer comes about a decade too late.

Poland has already made its strategic choice. It is investing in its own defence industrial base, in close cooperation with South Korea, and intends to manufacture its own tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery systems and ammunition.

There is, of course, still a requirement for interim capabilities. The rapid expansion of the Polish Armed Forces creates unavoidable equipment gaps, which explains discussions about acquiring surplus U.S. Strykers as a bridging solution.

But those are exactly that: bridging capabilities. They are expected to be replaced over time by equipment produced in Poland.

If Germany were prepared to equip two Polish divisions today with armoured vehicles transferred directly from Bundeswehr stocks - as part of a broader settlement of the unresolved reparations issue - that might be a proposal worth considering in Warsaw.

However, Germany appears to have neither the political will nor the available inventories to make such an offer. Under those circumstances, Rheinmetall’s proposal is unlikely to alter Poland’s long-term defence industrial strategy.