I made no secret of the fact that I hoped that the results of the Polish election, whatever they turned out to be, would lead to a moderation of the Law and Justice government’s fiercely confrontational attitude toward virtually all surrounding countries.
Interesting insights as ever. However, I have to disagree about Tusk. He really IS an evil EU apparatchik who would dearly love to "evolve" Poland into oblivion or at the very least destroy it's conservative social identity. However, as you say, he will be nicely hemmed in by argumentative coalitionists. That, hopefully, will keep him on the straight and narrow. And as another blogger said after the results, those 8 million or so L&J supporters aren't going anywhere.
Yep. Vicky Nuland has been very quiet recently. I wonder if she's doing an HRC style drunken, bottle-throwing sulk, or more ominously, in a team huddle with her fellow reptilians, planning the next "project"?
There will always be neocons and their ilk, Cass, because there will always be power-crazed psychopaths. However, a sane society would severely limit their pathways to power and try to avoid the situations where they rise to the surface.
Interesting insights as ever. However, I have to disagree about Tusk. He really IS an evil EU apparatchik who would dearly love to "evolve" Poland into oblivion or at the very least destroy it's conservative social identity. However, as you say, he will be nicely hemmed in by argumentative coalitionists. That, hopefully, will keep him on the straight and narrow. And as another blogger said after the results, those 8 million or so L&J supporters aren't going anywhere.
Disagree about what? I never said he wasn't evil.
A "devious tool of the EU". We use different vocab, but I think we are saying the same thing.
Yep. Vicky Nuland has been very quiet recently. I wonder if she's doing an HRC style drunken, bottle-throwing sulk, or more ominously, in a team huddle with her fellow reptilians, planning the next "project"?
Maybe the best we can hope for is that they will be marginalised and will wile away their lives in obscurity.
There will always be neocons and their ilk, Cass, because there will always be power-crazed psychopaths. However, a sane society would severely limit their pathways to power and try to avoid the situations where they rise to the surface.
Exactly.