I love the Russian Slavic people - you know the long suffering Christian Orthodox kind.
I love the Polish Slavic People - you know the long suffering Roman Catholic Christian kind.
Too bad they can't put aside their historic grievances - on both sides - and ally themselves morally and economically.
Any hope?
The hope, if I may interject, is that the madness of the West will finally unite them. It is already something that they all oppose in the East, but it may take time before they realize that they're in it together.
Russians and Poles have a very long, very bitter history. It's dobutful that they can reconcile their deep-rooted differences and resentments.
When an egg will produce its own hen. Using Huntington's terminology, you are speaking about two different civilizations here. Thus compatibility would be limited even in the best of times. Add to it a very long and unpleasant past history, and compatibility shrinks to nothing.
That is Pope Benedict's dream - to unite the Orthodox and Roman churches.