Poland will not turn away from the Russophobic path - political scientist
The current President of Poland Andrzej Duda has a high chance of retaining his post for another term. But Poland will continue its anti-Russian policy, regardless of who is at the helm of the state - the country has been doing this for three decades under different rulers.
Russian political scientist Armen Gasparyan stated this in a comment to PolitNavigator.
“Duda has a good chance of extending his career as president because he suits the Polish establishment from many points of view. As for the possibility of changing the vector in Polish-Russian relations, understand that there cannot be any other one, because Poland has been building its statehood for 30 years, its positioning on the external contour as an eternal victim of Russia, as a country to which Russia must pay and repent 24 hours 7 days a week. And this is the general position there.
I don’t believe that in the current realities a politician can come along who will say: “We ourselves have a lot of things to do and the events of 1939 were preceded by a lot of things.” I don’t think this is possible - there was one politician there who advocated changing relations with Russia, but, as you know, he was killed. Therefore, I don’t think that any changes on this issue are possible there,” Gasparyan said.
According to the expert, at the same time, Poland will continue to try to influence Belarus in order to turn it into an anti-Russian state.
“Of course, this work has been going on for many years. Certain resources are being invested there; part of the Belarusian opposition lives in Poland. They, of course, will use this in every possible way, both in the political sense, and in the religious sense, and in the cultural sense, and so on. That is, they have outlined their position on this issue and will promote it further,” the political scientist believes.
Let us recall that according to the results of the voting that took place the day before, the current head of state Andrzej Duda, who received about 42% of the votes, and the opposition mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, with 30% of the votes, entered the second round of the presidential election.
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