Poland’s intransigence, its illegal occupation of large swathes of pre-WWI territory and Poland’s goading of the Workers Reich up to 1939 ignited the catastrophic World War II: the most disastrous war in European history resulted in over 50 million Europeans martyred and half of Europe under the Bolshevik jackboot including their own country.

It seems history could be repeating itself: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has warned the Brussels EU’s two unelected presidents and its 27 unelected Commissioners against acting ‘with a gun to our heads.’

The premier goes on to say Warsaw would defend itself by any means available if the EU launched a third World War by withholding Covid-19 lockdown compensatory funding.

The strongly-worded statement came after the European Commission threatened to leave Poland without billions in compensatory grants and low-interest loans as a response to a decision by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, which prioritised national laws over those of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).

ABOVE: Polish General Rydz Smigly before the outbreak of World War II threatened to crush Hitler’s Germany. In fact, the arrogant upstart had this painting commissioned which depicts him riding through a vanquished Berlin.

‘What will happen if the European Commission starts a third World War? We are going to defend our rights with any weapons which are at our disposal,’ Morawiecki said when asked by the Financial Times if Poland could now veto important legislation such as the EU’s landmark climate package.

‘We feel this is already discriminatory and a diktat type of approach by Brussels. But if it’s going to get even worse, we’ll have to think through our strategy,’ he added.

The prime minister described the European Commission’s withholding of the €36-billion compensation right for post-pandemic rebuilding as a ‘breach of the rule of law.’

He added that Poles would not surrender. In order to find a compromise, he added, the EU should reverse its recent decision to fine Warsaw daily until it implemented ECJ decisions regarding its judicial reform.

‘This would be the wisest thing they can do because then we are not talking to each other with a gun to our head. This very situation creates a relative lack of our appetite for any further actions,’ he said.

Last month, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruled that some provisions of EU treaties conflicted with Polish laws and that the European institutions were acting beyond the scope of their competencies. 

The move to prioritise national laws over European ones raised eyebrows in Brussels. Several figures, among them Macron, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and European Parliament President David Sassoli demanded Poland be punished, while others, including Merkel, called for a compromise.

Ironically, the German Reich Minister Herman Goering coined the expressions ‘we will never again come to the negotiating table with a (victors’) gun pointed at our head.’

The remark was made after Imperial Germany had been disarmed following the armistice of World War I when the victors imposed the onerous conditions of the Versailles Treaty on blameless Germany. Like this story? Share it with a friend!