From Wiktor Moszczynski,
Dear Sirs,
I was intrigued by the description of Boris Johnson as the suggested mediator between Germany and Poland in their contrasting response to the war in Ukraine. Patrick Wintour seems to approve Jonson's credentials in his piece "Johnson is an unlikely bridge builder" (Guardian 07.04.2022), but the poisoned relationship between Germany and the current Polish leadership will remain. While it is true that the UK and Poland still see eye to eye on a strong commitment to supply arms and material support to Ukraine, and are more determined then Germany and France in pressing for stronger sanctions, they are also united by their consistent negativity towards Brussels and to the current French and German leadership, even to the extent of publicly sniping at Macron as he desperately battles the pro-Putin nationalist forces which challenge his presidency next week.
In the past Lenin mocked European politicians and writers who sympathised with Soviet Russia as "useful idiots". Now Boris Johnson and Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki have both played the role of "useful idiots" to the Putin political agenda in the last 5 years as they have sought to undermine the liberal principles and the unity of the European Union, which Putin and his more overt European allies (Orban, LePen, Farage) are determined to destroy. In fact, Brussels and Berlin suspect that despite the hostility of UK and Poland to Putin, their temporarily concealed anti-European agenda remains in place, as they await the triumphant return of the arch "useful idiot", President Trump in 2024.
Yours faithfully,
Wiktor Moszczynski
Sent to the Guardian 07.04.2022
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