Poland is becoming a more important player on the world stage. NATO, the G20, the Three Seas Initiative. That also makes it a more attractive target for China. As Polish-Taiwanese relations grow stronger, Chinese cognitive and economic operations targeting Poland are growing as well. I wrote about the Chinese threat to Poland for @TheNatlInterest: nationalinterest.org/feature…

That’s the diplomatic equivalent of walking into a restaurant and saying: “I’ll have the steak, medium rare — but please don’t actually cook a cow.”

Wow!

Niestety je przeczytałem. Od takiego pro-atlantyzmu uchowaj nas Boże. Proszę wrócić do ocieplania wizerunku ajjatollachów.

Polish troops, iced coffees in hand

“We want the kind of U.S. presence that would reassure us but not be threatening to Russia” what does it even mean. Threatening to Russia? It’s straight from the Russian propaganda playbook American bases = threat to Russia.

Świetny ruch, szczególnie jak prezydent w tym czasie negocjuje amerykańskie bazy dla Polski.

Sikorski is a walking embarrassment. 40,000 Iranian protesters murdered by the regime. 20 Americans killed by the ayatollahs. Ukrainians losing their lives to Iranian Shaheds. And Sikorski is posing for photos with their foreign minister at the UN summit - photos the regime is using for propaganda already And they actually share it through the official Polish Foreign Ministry account.

Na Ukrainie ludzie tracą życie z powodu irańskich Shahedów, 20 Amerykanów zabitych przez ajatollachów, 40 tys. protestujących Persów zamordowanych przez reżim a Sikorski robi sobie zdjęcia z ich ministrem na szczycie ONZ, które upadający reżim wykorzystuje do swojej propagandy.

Sikorski sucks up to Iran. I’m not surprised at all.

Yeah, it’s like Soviet Russia claiming the heritage of pre-revolutionary Russia after overthrowing the regime, slaughtering millions, banning its symbols, destroying the old order, and then taking credit for fighting the Germans, despite abandoning allies and withdrawing from World War I. Commies are always the same.

Wait, how did it go? “America is abandoning Europe”? Right.

Nothing to LOL about. In Polish culture, this is one of the highest expressions of respect. The Polish sabre represents honor, nobility, and the readiness to fight side by side. Poland and Türkiye are natural allies. Very cool.

Patriots in control

Amazing things are coming.

Witold Pilecki is regarded as the only known person to have volunteered to enter Auschwitz. His mission was to discover what was happening inside the camp, inform the outside world and establish a resistance network. Yesterday marked the 86th anniversary of Witold Pilecki’s arrest. “His decision to allow himself to be arrested was one of the bravest acts of the war,” says Jack Fairweather, author of the acclaimed Pilecki biography The Volunteer and interim President and CEO of the Pilecki Institute (USA). How did his arrest come about? In the summer of 1940, the leadership of the Polish underground knew very little about the camp the Germans had established at Auschwitz. The town lay in the part of occupied Poland that the German Reich had annexed directly following the invasion of September 1939. At that time, Auschwitz was used primarily to crush Polish resistance and terrorise members of the Polish elite. The underground was looking for an officer who could enter the camp, gather information and establish clandestine structures there. Witold Pilecki was chosen for the mission. But an undertaking of such danger could not simply be imposed upon him as an order. The final decision was his. On 19 September 1940, Pilecki was staying at the home of his sister-in-law, Eleonora Ostrowska, in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district. German units had sealed off the neighbourhood and begun a large-scale roundup. The building’s caretaker twice offered to hide Pilecki, but he declined. Pilecki had prepared himself for his arrest, both mentally and physically. He had even packed a toothbrush. When, shortly afterwards, there was a violent knock at the door, Pilecki said goodbye to Ostrowska’s son and went to face the German uniformed officers. Before being led away, he whispered to his sister-in-law: “Report where necessary that I have carried out the order.” That same day, Pilecki and the other detainees were taken to a barracks in Warsaw. Two days later, the prisoners were marched to the railway station and locked inside freight wagons. Pilecki was carrying false papers in the name of Tomasz Serafiński. There was no guarantee that he would actually be sent to Auschwitz. He could not know where the Germans would take him, and anyone arrested during such a roundup faced an immediate threat to their life. His mission therefore began with a decision whose consequences he could not control. At Auschwitz, Pilecki was assigned prisoner number 4859. Despite the omnipresent terror, he established a secret resistance network that eventually included hundreds of prisoners. The organisation gathered information about conditions in the camp and passed it to the outside world. At the same time, it created a system of mutual assistance: it obtained food and medicine, supported weakened prisoners and those in particular danger, and attempted to have them assigned to less arduous work details. From the beginning of his imprisonment, Pilecki collected information about German crimes and living conditions at Auschwitz. His first message reached the Polish underground in Warsaw as early as October 1940. Further reports followed regularly. Among other methods, Pilecki had them smuggled out of the camp by released prisoners. Through the structures of the Polish Underground State, the information reached the Polish government-in-exile in London and subsequently the Allies. Later reports also documented Auschwitz’s development into a centre for the extermination of Europe’s Jews. After two years and seven months, Pilecki decided to escape. On the night of 26–27 April 1943, he fled Auschwitz together with Edward Ciesielski and Jan Redzej. Once free, he wrote extensive reports describing his experiences and the crimes committed in the camp.

Niepojęte. Minister rządu państwa frontowego NATO robi reklamę chińskiej państwowej firmie, która zarabia w Rosji na lukach po zachodnich producentach. Lovol działa w Rosji pełną parą. Ma tam rozbudowaną sieć oficjalnych dealerów, a według chińskiego portalu branżowego nawet 25 proc. rynku. Lovol zajmuje w Rosji miejsce po zachodnich producentach, którzy wycofali się po inwazji na Ukrainę, i pomaga rosyjskiej gospodarce radzić sobie ze skutkami izolacji. Rosyjskie związki właściciela Lovola, państwowego koncernu Weichai, stały się już tematem w Waszyngtonie. W sierpniu 2026 r. republikański senator Jim Banks wezwał sekretarza obrony Pete'a Hegsetha do wpisania Weichai na listę chińskich firm wojskowych. Wśród argumentów wymienił spółkę joint venture z Kamazem, dostawcą ciężarówek dla rosyjskiego ministerstwa obrony, oraz umowę o produkcji silników z białoruskim MAZ-em, objętym w 2023 r. amerykańskimi sankcjami. Banks wskazał też na powiązania koncernu z chińskim wojskiem: w Shandong Heavy Industry, spółce macierzystej Weichai, działa od 2019 r. wydział Ludowych Sił Zbrojnych podległy okręgowi wojskowemu prowincji Szantung. @StefanKrajewski

Zauważyłem, że w Polsce w kontekście Chin, ludzie, którzy sprzeciwiają się ich wpływom robią to zwykle ze względu na przywiązanie do sojuszu z Amerykanami. Tymczasem nasz sprzeciw wobec chińskich metod nacisku gospodarczego, dyplomatycznego, współpracy z Rosją, oraz masowych prześladowań i czystek etnicznych popełnianych przez KPCh powinien wynikać w pierwszej kolejności z dbałości o bezpieczeństwo Polski, oraz moralny sprzeciw wobec komunistycznego terroru, a dopiero następnie motywowany kwestiami sojuszniczymi.

Niesamowite. Ruskie drony wyposażone w chińską elektronikę łatają nam nad głowami, a polski minister rolnictwa z dumą promuje chiński przemysł rolniczy. Panie @StefanKrajewski ile Pekin płaci za takie rzeczy?

Polish-Taiwanese Commonwealth

Very good. Poland is part of that!