It went quickly: nine weeks after the takeover, Donald Tusk’s team is toying with the idea of using violence against the social group that started the protest. It is of course about farmers who are raising the alarm about the influx of Ukrainian agricultural products and the Green Deal that is killing their industry (but also for the entire economy) and the decision to include border crossings and some roads and paths on the list of critical infrastructure.
To justify this step, Prime Minister Tusk referred to his concerns about the efficient transfer of aid to the fight against Ukraine.
“It is also important to me that the Ukrainian side and our partners know that the Polish state maintains everything that needs to be enforced here,” he said, noting in this context the deliveries of “military aid, equipment, ammunition, humanitarian and help”. medical assistance.”
Let’s get things straight. Of course, military and related aid does not pass through normal border crossings, as anyone interested in these matters knows. And there has never been a problem here. It is possible that there was a problem with some of the humanitarian aid provided by small organizations or individual citizens. I emphasize: it is possible, because nothing concrete has emerged. If this were the case, the state has options to circumvent this.
So what’s going on? The answer is given by the next sentence of the Prime Minister, who emphasized that the changes will mean “a different type”. regime organizational” at intersections and access roads that are considered “critical infrastructure”. This should have ‘practical consequences, so that this movement takes place without any delays and inhibitions’.
To read it correctly: the demonstrators and blockers will be dispersed by the police and perhaps even the army. The aim is to pave the way for Ukrainian agricultural exports.
For people who know politics, the matter is clear: he wants to take over the government “limited martial law” an area where a normal, democratic, political path would require a lot of effort and would not guarantee results.
This is also the opinion of the former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki: “In practice, this means a violent blockade of the farmers’ protest. “Tusk wants to solve the problem again by escalating tensions.”
Words “again” they fit very well here. There used to be public media, which was taken over by force and used shortcuts. The dilemma of what to do with critical people media solved the Moscow way: female police dogs brought in new, docile journalists and CEOs. It was then illegally seized in the same manner National Public Prosecution Service. They prepare for such attacks in the light of cameras National Bank of Poland And High Court.
I warned in December, when TVP, PAP and Polskie Radio were attacked, that the authorities, starting by breaking the resistance of independent institutions using unlawful violence, will quickly move to similar actions against social groups protesting. He will never find patience again and will prefer to negotiate, argue and seek compromises.
However, I thought it would take longer.
You can see this impatience in almost every statement made by their representative. The Minister and Deputy Minister of Agriculture are irritated by the “unrealistic” demands of farmers, the Minister of Climate is irritated by the resistance to another “ambitious” goal, namely reducing CO2 emissions, namely economic life, and the Prime Minister is irritated by the rational arguments of the head of the central bank in favor of preserving the national currency.
In the border issue we also see the first of many examples of how expensive the path to power chosen by the current ruling coalition will be for Poland. Total election campaign it meant promising everything to everyone, attacking everyone against everyone, taking every poisonous fruit, even from Putin’s hands, and throwing every available stone at the “pissist power” – as Tusk puts it.
In Ukrainian affairs they showed a particularly cynical attitude. The PiS government, which had the courage to save Ukraine in the first days of the war by supplying tanks, ammunition and all kinds of aid (it was a historic decision of the Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński!) they accused him of being pro-Russian. They told the Ukrainians that they – Germany’s allies – would give them more! Which unfortunately, and to the detriment of his country, President Volodymyr Zelensky took seriously.
The Poles were told that the war had no costs and that the Polish government was responsible for Putin’s inflation. Farmers were incited by stories about the alleged inaction of the authorities in the face of the flood of Ukrainian grain – when that government had the courage to impose an import embargo despite Brussels and managed to build a regional coalition around the issue. No one will openly tell farmers that the government is run by people who have already signed climate agreements and who have to pay their electoral debts to Berlin and Brussels.
Today this knot of lies and inflated expectations around agriculture and the border cannot be resolved without facing the truth and accepting a costly political price. You can only try to cut it with a police baton. And it’s happening before our eyes. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of a dark series of such intersections, the beginning of the era of the police baton. Because violence in politics is addictive.
Source: wPolityce