#alexeithymia

Yea just accept it. Is that the guy from Eurovision from so long ago?! because he is just adorable.

Hi :) I’m okay, a bit pissed, and quite a bit concerned, but there isn’t any immediate danger over here, despite the general paranoia. You see, the problem is, Poland as a nation has been through this same situation several times before, and we know the signs, and we know the propaganda, we know how it goes. So our government and opposition are completely united, like never before (we do that over here, become thick as thieves in face of danger) and we’re treating the situation extremely seriously, even though the Western world might find our ‘paranoia’ amusing, downplaying the conflict and its repercussions. NATO is not taking any decisive action, as it always happens when an Eastern European country gets invaded or its sovereignity is threatened - the West always wakes up only after the deed is done, and never in time to prevent it. I’m not pointing fingers here, because, well, I don’t think anyone on this website has any real power to change that, but I admit that I’m really tired of being the ‘slightly silly, paranoid cousin’ in our European family. All I’m asking, and this goes out to all my followers and anyone who might stumble on this post, is that you treat this seriously.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Polish American political scientist, who was born in 1928, so he was a little boy when he witnessed the beginning of WWII (even though he fortunately wasn’t in Poland at that time), said something very true today on CNN:

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, FMR. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR:  That prospect, in my view, is by far the more serious one because, in effect, Putin has claimed the right to intervene in Ukraine itself, to intervene militarily by force.

And the Crimean scenario may be a preview of what he’s planning, namely that in some of the eastern regions of Ukraine, which are inhabited by Russian-speaking Ukrainians, some of whom are favorable to Moscow, riots could be staged, they could be provoked by Moscow.

And then Russian troops would enter.  And that envisions (ph) what we have to now deter, prevent, discourage.

And it seems to me that we have to take a stand publicly, offering Russia some sort of participation in an overall international effort to help stabilize the Ukrainian economy and so forth; but privately, at the same time, we have to warn Russia very explicitly as to what might be the negative consequences of Russia in effect attacking Ukraine.

And these consequences have to be very serious because, otherwise, some years from now, we will be regretting failure to act the way we regretted the failure to act after Munich in 1938 and 1939, and we know what followed.

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alexeithymia said: Lol how come only now? Didn’t you feel the canon before?