Jacek Bartosiak & Albert Świdziński talk about Poland’s journey from peripheral position and its prospects (Video)

Makinder mówił, że to dlatego, że siły i siły terenu zniszczyły się tam. To jest dokładny wpływ zniszczeń. I można powiedzieć, że wojna w Ukrainie jest epitomem tego. The sea power of the United States that entered the old continent and moved eastwards with the expansion of NATO to include Poland and Baltic states and maybe Ukraine and Ukrainian ambitions that didn't want to be trapped in this continental thing. And always a permanent fear of Russia shadowing over us and our independence and also our progress.

So Poland always has two strategic dilemmas. One is how to keep Russia out of the European system of balancing game. NATO and the United States did it for us for the last 35 years. Before that, the Soviet Union was occupying us and we had also the interwar period after we had defeated the Soviet troops. But before that, only before Peter the Great, we could exist because Russia was out of the system. So now the Polish objective is to keep Russia out of the European system, which will be a very tough Jacek Bartosiak, Jacek Bartosiak Albert Świdziński

And here geography from that side From the Asian side is helping us because we are the window of Europe then. We are at the crossroads from north to south, from west to east and our geographical position is becoming a focal point, a pivot, not a peripheral country. And that might create progress. We will see how it develops, but we are thinking about some strategies. We are thinking about the old school thinking about NATO, Cold War and the Transatlantic Alliance and all those European dreams that the European model is the best and most innovative.