No need to sugarcoat it, Bandera and Shukhevych were mass murderers and war criminals of the worst kind. Despite being "subhuman" in the eyes of their on-again off-again German patrons, they nevertheless had an active symbiosis in their mutual desire to eliminate other ethnic groups.
They looked upon Poles much the same as the Germans looked upon them.
While the relationship of Poland with the Ukrainian-nationalists is an alliance of convenience, nationalists are historically pragmatic when it comes to which paths are available to them in their rise to power. As long as both see the US as the most powerful player, they will kiss that particular ass together in order to advance their cause.
The real post-war situation that is of interest, in my opinion, is that this decade+ dalliance with the ultra-right injects a new generation of fascism into Eastern Euro politics. At the same time as Liberals and SocDem's are thoroughly discredited all across the continent.
Poland's economic miracle and survival of the 90's is also due to it being on the fringe, need to hem in Russia. ditto Japan and South Korea, Turkey, Greece and Italy in former times. Now not needed so much - look at them! Post-SMO, I suspect Ukr will be a buffer area, not a State. It will be a depopulated no mans land.
People fighting for their survival are usually not great in self-critic, but is hard to understand how president Zelensky can honour figures involved in the genocide of Jews and Poles, and what is Ukraine gaining from this.
The 3 seas, it is my understanding, do not and will not have the funding in the near future to build the required infrastructure. The assumption that there is a pressing need for Poland to trade with Croatia has not been proven accurate. The east west corridor, from Asia into Central Europe, or the north south from Piraeus to Central Europe is eating all of the funding. And no one in Central Europe wants to put the money in themselves,not Poland, and not Croatia, nor anyone in between.
No need to sugarcoat it, Bandera and Shukhevych were mass murderers and war criminals of the worst kind. Despite being "subhuman" in the eyes of their on-again off-again German patrons, they nevertheless had an active symbiosis in their mutual desire to eliminate other ethnic groups.
They looked upon Poles much the same as the Germans looked upon them.
While the relationship of Poland with the Ukrainian-nationalists is an alliance of convenience, nationalists are historically pragmatic when it comes to which paths are available to them in their rise to power. As long as both see the US as the most powerful player, they will kiss that particular ass together in order to advance their cause.
The real post-war situation that is of interest, in my opinion, is that this decade+ dalliance with the ultra-right injects a new generation of fascism into Eastern Euro politics. At the same time as Liberals and SocDem's are thoroughly discredited all across the continent.
Poland's economic miracle and survival of the 90's is also due to it being on the fringe, need to hem in Russia. ditto Japan and South Korea, Turkey, Greece and Italy in former times. Now not needed so much - look at them! Post-SMO, I suspect Ukr will be a buffer area, not a State. It will be a depopulated no mans land.
People fighting for their survival are usually not great in self-critic, but is hard to understand how president Zelensky can honour figures involved in the genocide of Jews and Poles, and what is Ukraine gaining from this.
The 3 seas, it is my understanding, do not and will not have the funding in the near future to build the required infrastructure. The assumption that there is a pressing need for Poland to trade with Croatia has not been proven accurate. The east west corridor, from Asia into Central Europe, or the north south from Piraeus to Central Europe is eating all of the funding. And no one in Central Europe wants to put the money in themselves,not Poland, and not Croatia, nor anyone in between.