The Polish-Ukrainian Security Pact Puts Ukraine On The Path To Becoming A Polish Client State, by Andrew Korybko

Europe prepares for war against the country that’s methodically taking apart its Ukraine pawn. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:

This is the US’ reward to Poland for replacing its conservative-nationalist government with a liberal-globalist one and then comprehensively subordinating itself to Germany.

Poland and Ukraine signed their long-negotiated “security guarantee” pact on Monday during Zelensky’s surprise visit to Warsaw ahead of this week’s NATO Summit in DC. It can be read in full here, with a lot of it concerning standard military cooperation of the sort that Ukraine already agreed to with the UK and the US, but there are also unique security details and plenty of socio-economic and political ones too. Here’s what most folks might have missed about this ~9000-word pact in ascending order of importance:

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* There’s A Very Emotive Socio-Cultural, Historical, & Political Background

The preamble notes that they “reaffirm their common historical legacy, and recognize the closeness of both cultures, languages, political traditions of their Nations”, which is unlike any of the ties that Ukraine has with the other NATO members with whom it’s already signed “security guarantees”. The subtext is that there’s a special relationship between them, which hints at Poland obtaining a more privileged position over all Ukrainian affairs than others due to its former status as that country’s ‘big brother’.

* New Curriculum Guidelines For Schoolbooks Aim To Foster Reconciliation

The parties agreed to “develop common instruments for historical research as well as curriculum guidelines for school textbooks on history of relations of the two States and Nations, particularly building on the Polish-Ukrainian brotherhood in arms in the 1920 war with Bolshevik Russia.” They also expressed a desire to “seek – with the support of research centres – reconciliation with regard to contentious issues resulting from the difficult history of both States”, all of which could lead to whitewashing history.

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