[dfwgator]

How are the Poles reacting? Frankly, I’d have their troops poised to move into Western Ukraine if the Russians threaten that region. Poland may have to take the lead, because the US sure won’t do it, at least under this Administration.

Then there is the little matter of Kaliningrad.

I pray it doesn’t come to that.

[Matt_DZ_PL]

How are the Poles reacting?

Whatever to say, Poland has changed within a month beyond recognition. Unbelievable unity all over the country, from the left to the right. The unity that only a totally mental man could believe it a few weeks ago.

All those PC parties that were so kowtowing to Moscow, just like the currently ruling Civil Platform and the vast majority of the mass media, now speak with one hard voice. One of them used such a comparison, “When somebody wants to open the window because it’s too hot inside while somebody else wants to close that window because he feels cold in there, the wrangle is inevitable. However, if somebody else comes from the outside and tries to blow up our house, the entire former argument about the window becomes pointless and even ridiculous.”

Lots of young boys come to military offices to volunteer for the army, to enroll and stand up for the country, although there's no draft now. I can quote a 20-year-old student of the University of Poznan I saw on the main Polish news channel. He said, "I like drinking wine with friends and bopping at parties, but when I hear and see that Western response full of disgusting hypocrisy, I cannot take it anymore. The EU and the NATO have such powerful armies and other weapons that could stop Putin’s at will. However, they will sell Ukraine as soon as the scream in the media subsides, just like they sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler before WWII. That's why I’m here, just because I cannot imagine being elsewhere now.”

But, on the other hand, there's also a gloomy broad feeling that if it comes to the crunch, Poland will be left alone as usual, just like in 1939 :(

[VeniVidiVici]

Then there is the little matter of Kaliningrad.

You think Putin is just going to ignore Kalinigrad? The narrative to invade fits as well here as it does anywhere else.

[Cronos]

If Poles move into W Ukraine it would be a mistake -- remember the last time Poles did this in the 1920 war against the Soviets? It united the Ukrainians AND the Russians

They like to talk about in their history about how supposedly the Polish pans ruled over them and mistreated the Rusyni (forgetting conveniently that there were many Polish peasants as well).

A Polish intervention in Ukraine would stir up too much of this anti-Polish antagonism (remember the massacres of Poles by the UPA?)

[thecodont]

Then there is the little matter of Kaliningrad.

Yes. There is that.