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„Żołnierz polski walczy o wolność wszystkich narodów, ale umiera tylko za Polskę”. — Generał Stanisław Maczek 🧜🏾‍♀️⚔️🛡️
“The Polish soldier fights for the freedom of all nations but dies only for Poland.” — Generał Stanisław Maczek 🧜🏾‍♀️⚔️🛡️
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BREAKING: Trump says it is time for someone else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine
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Spokojnie. Coś wykombinujemy.
"KOMBINOWAĆ": The Polish art of outsmarting reality. There is a Polish verb that has no satisfactory equivalent in English or French. It is kombinować, and understanding it is essential to understanding the Polish national character. Kombinować means finding a solution to a problem through ingenuity, improvisation, personal connections, dubious arrangements, and occasionally methods that would make a German lawyer suffer a nervous breakdown. It is neither necessarily legal nor necessarily illegal. Neither entirely honest nor entirely dishonest. It occupies that fascinating territory between human intelligence and criminal entrepreneurship. And Poles have elevated it to something approaching an art form. Imagine that three Europeans discover their washing machines have broken down. The Englishman telephones a repair company. The technician arrives on Tuesday, identifies the defective component, orders a replacement, and schedules another appointment. The Frenchman telephones customer service, argues for forty minutes about consumer rights, threatens legal action, and eventually writes an indignant letter to the manufacturer. He might even establish an association of dissatisfied washing-machine owners. The Pole looks at his washing machine and announces: Spokojnie. Coś wykombinujemy. (Don't worry. We'll "figure something out", but it's a bit more than that...) What follows is difficult to describe within the conventional boundaries of economic science. He telephones his cousin, who knows a mechanic, whose brother-in-law once worked at a factory producing agricultural equipment. The mechanic has no washing-machine components, but he possesses a motor from an old Soviet tractor. The motor is too large. No problem. A neighbour knows somebody who can modify it. Unfortunately, that somebody owes money to another neighbour, who happens to need help transporting a refrigerator. Three telephone calls, two bottles of vodka, one borrowed trailer, and an entirely unrelated dispute about a missing bicycle later, the washing machine works. It now sounds like a MiG-21 preparing for takeoff, but it works. And the Pole is delighted. He has not merely repaired an appliance. He has defeated reality. This is kombinowanie. The Polish “Coś wykombinujemy” contains something more adventurous than "we'll figure something out". The process itself is an expedition into the unknown. French offers several partial equivalents. Se débrouiller conveys resourcefulness. Bricoler describes improvisation. Magouiller suggests suspicious arrangements. Combiner can refer to devising schemes. But Polish conveniently compresses all these possibilities into one verb. A man who kombinuje might be an ingenious inventor, an exceptionally resourceful neighbour, a slightly dishonest businessman, or a future defendant in a corruption trial. Sometimes all four. And this peculiar mentality has historical foundations. For much of the twentieth century, particularly under communism, Poles inhabited an economy in which official procedures frequently proved incapable of satisfying elementary material needs. You wanted a refrigerator? The shop had none. You wanted building materials? The warehouse was empty. You wanted to repair your car? The necessary components were unavailable. But somewhere, somebody knew somebody. The communist state had developed an elaborate system for planning production, allocating resources, and distributing goods. The Polish population responded by developing an equally elaborate system for circumventing it. An entire parallel economy emerged, built upon favours, exchanges, informal obligations, ingenious substitutions, and personal relationships. The bureaucrat possessed the regulations. The kombinator possessed his cousin's telephone number. And quite frequently, the cousin proved more useful than the entire Ministry of Industry. Naturally, there was a price to pay. A society organised around kombinowanie may produce extraordinarily resourceful individuals while tolerating spectacularly dysfunctional institutions. Why demand that the system function properly when you can always find a way around it? Why repair the road when you know a shortcut through somebody's field? Why simplify the administration when everyone knows that the appropriate stamp can be obtained through a friend? The kombinator triumphs over dysfunction, but his triumph can also help perpetuate it. Yet it would be a mistake to regard kombinowanie merely as the cultural residue of communism. The word and the attitudes it describes have a broader history. They express a particular admiration for intelligence that refuses to remain confined within established procedures. In this sense, kombinowanie has an almost artistic dimension. The engineer asks what an object was designed to do. The kombinator asks what else it could possibly do. The administrator sees a regulation. The kombinator sees an interesting literary text open to interpretation. The economist sees an inefficient allocation of resources. The kombinator sees an opportunity to exchange a broken motorcycle for six chickens, a barrel of diesel, and an introduction to a man who works at the town hall. There is something profoundly creative in this attitude, even when the results are absurd. Of course, the English also improvise, the French also circumvent rules, and the Germans are perfectly capable of inventive dishonesty. These are not exclusive national behaviours. What is distinctive is the extraordinary semantic and cultural career of the Polish word: its ability to turn practical improvisation, cunning, opportunism, and social resourcefulness into variations of the same recognisable activity. And perhaps the greatest difference lies in the attitude towards the unexpected. For the English pragmatist, a good solution is one that works reliably. For the French intellectual, a good solution should ideally also be theoretically defensible. For the Polish kombinator, a good solution is one that nobody would have imagined in the first place. Preferably one that also leaves him with a spare tractor motor, three bottles of vodka, and a neighbour who owes him a favour.
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I do not support a New Yalta. Russia, go home!! @PolishEmbassyUS 🇵🇱🇺🇦
💬 Stany Zjednoczone chciałyby, żeby ta wojna się zakończyła na jakichkolwiek warunkach, a Ukraina mówi, że nie może się zakończyć na warunkach, w których miliony obywateli są poddawane represjom, obozom filtracyjnym, kradzież dzieci, wynaradawianie itd. Dla Ukrainy to jest rzecz egzystencjalna, a dla Stanów Zjednoczonych rzecz nie aż takiej rangi. Ja uważam, że to jest błąd, bo po to, aby zakończyć tę wojnę, potrzeba wywrzeć presję na agresora, a nie na ofiarę agresji. | wicepremier, minister spraw zagranicznych @sikorskiradek w programie „Fakty po Faktach” @tvn24
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What a stubborn hobbit! Just give Sauron the ring and it’ll all be over!
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Trump just endorsed Netanyahu.  No surprise. One authoritarian helping another stay in power. Trump and Netanyahu. More war. More destruction. More genocide. We must end the Republican rubber-stamp Congress. We must stop all military aid to Israel.
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I remind you, we have already protested against the destruction of tankers built by the Polish Humanitarian Action. This is unacceptable. @PolandMFA
Replying to @em_mls
Israel is responsible for security in Gaza and the West Bank. We recognize Israel as the occupying power of these territories, which involves specific obligations under international law. We do not recognize these territories as part of Israel. @sikorskiradek 🇵🇱
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10 suspects have been arrested after Israeli settlers attack on Belgium, French, and Polish diplomats, a French Mayor, Palestinian Civilians and an American journalist in the occupied West Bank. 🇵🇸
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Israel is responsible for security in Gaza and the West Bank. We recognize Israel as the occupying power of these territories, which involves specific obligations under international law. We do not recognize these territories as part of Israel. @sikorskiradek 🇵🇱
Nie uznajemy tych terytoriów za część Izraela. I oczywiście wymagamy, aby - czy to dziennikarze, czy dyplomaci - mieli zapewnione fizyczne bezpieczeństwo - powiedział szef MSZ Radosław Sikorski. rmf24.pl/fakty/polska/news-s…
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Replying to @StZaryn
Russia's sabotage and psychological information operations against Poland are escalating. The Kremlin is recruiting members of a mafia in Germany to strike at the Republic of Poland using propaganda narratives of Poland as an obstacle to normalizing West-Russia relations.
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“Overcome evil with good.”
"Wraz z księdzem Jerzym, który nieopodal stąd znalazł męczeńską śmierć na wiślanym spiętrzeniu, zginam moje kolana przed Ojcem i proszę o "wzmocnienie siły człowieka wewnętrznego", dla wszystkich synów i córek mojej Ojczyzny u progu czasów, które nadeszły - i które idą." Św. JP2
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“A Christian must remember that one should fear only betraying Christ for a few silver coins of barren peace.” Bl. Jerzy Popiełuszko, pray for us
„Chrześcijanin musi pamiętać, że bać się trzeba tylko zdrady Chrystusa za parę srebrników jałowego spokoju”. Bł. Jerzy Popiełuszko, módl się za nami
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🚨 Russian propaganda presents Poland as a threat to Ukraine’s independence Persuasive goal: weaken trust between Poland and Ukraine, undermine public support for defense cooperation, and shift responsibility for destabilizing Eastern Europe from Russia to Poland and NATO
🚨 ALERT FIMI | Rosyjska propaganda przedstawia Polskę jako zagrożenie dla niepodległości Ukrainy. W rosyjskim ekosystemie propagandowym rozpowszechniany jest przekaz przedstawiający Polskę jako państwo dążące do podporządkowania Ukrainy i wywołania konfrontacji militarnej z Rosją. Materiał zatytułowany „Polskie Międzymorze – wyrok śmierci na samodzielną Ukrainę”, opublikowany pierwotnie w rosyjskim portalu 1rodina(.)ru, a następnie rozpowszechniany przez polskojęzyczne portale i konta w serwisach społecznościowych, wykorzystuje manipulacje historyczne, selektywnie dobrane wypowiedzi polskich ekspertów oraz fałszywe interpretacje polityki bezpieczeństwa RP. Główne kierunki oddziaływania: 🔴 Przedstawianie Polski jako państwa o ambicjach imperialnych, dążącego do dominacji nad Ukrainą. 🔴 Kreowanie Międzymorza i NATO jako struktur przygotowujących agresję przeciwko Rosji. 🔴 Wzbudzanie obaw przed bezpośrednim zaangażowaniem Polski w wojnę. 🔴 "Usprawiedliwianie" rosyjskiej agresji poprzez przedstawianie jej jako reakcji na rzekome zagrożenie ze strony Zachodu. Cel perswazyjny: osłabienie zaufania między Polską i Ukrainą, podważanie społecznego poparcia dla współpracy obronnej oraz przeniesienie odpowiedzialności za destabilizację Europy Wschodniej z Rosji na Polskę i NATO. ⚠️ Istotnym elementem manipulacji jest otwarte "uzasadnianie" ograniczenia terytorium Ukrainy jako warunku bezpieczeństwa Rosji. Przypadek ilustruje sposób wykorzystywania rzeczywistych debat historycznych i politycznych do uwiarygodniania fałszywych oskarżeń oraz "legitymizowania" rosyjskich roszczeń terytorialnych.
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📖 Killed for the Truth: Actions of Communist Special Services Against Fr. Francis Blachnicki in the Years 1982–1987 by Andrzej Kowałski
Replying to @WydawnictwoLTW
Obchodzony dziś Narodowy Dzień Pamięci Duchownych Niezłomnych jest również okazją, by przypomnieć ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego, twórcę Ruchu Światło–Życie, wokół którego powstało kolejne niezależne środowisko objęte działaniami komunistycznych służb. Jemu poświęcona jest dostępna w LTW książka Andrzeja Kowalskiego „Zabity za prawdę. Działania komunistycznych służb specjalnych przeciwko ks. Franciszkowi Blachnickiemu w latach 1982–1987”.
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If the pro-Russian far right wins in France next, it will be another invitation for a Russian attack on the Baltics and our region. All that remains for us is to prepare the defense of our region with Poland, Germany, and the Nordic countries. 🇨🇿
Pokud příští ve Francii vyhraje pro-ruská krajní pravice, bude to další pozvánka pro ruský útok na Balty a náš region. Pokud Francii bude vládnout fanynka Ruska, jejíž politický úspěch stál na ruských penězích, tak můžeme očekávat francouzské brždění snah o alianční obranu. Zbývá nám připravovat obranu našeho regionu s Polskem, Německem a severskými zeměmi.
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I will be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team this week to discuss Starshield, sanctions, and other matters pertaining to the defense of our strong ally, Ukraine. I will be assuring President Zelenskyy that anyone who attempts to limit the use of Starshield for Ukraine will be fully investigated and will be held fully accountable, to include public congressional oversight hearings, and immediate harsh and punitive budget cuts to any responsible agency or agency head. Congress will unequivocally reaffirm that Ukraine is an indispensable ally to the United States, that Russia is a self-declared enemy of the United States, and that the United States will 100% support and defend the people of Ukraine in their fight for their own freedom against this brutal, illegal, and unprovoked Russian invasion. The United States must provide any and all defensive equipment that Ukraine needs to defend itself. The United States must not import a single drop of Russian oil. Sanctions against the Russian regime must be harsher and stronger than they’ve ever been before. Each and every one of these items will be brought to the House Floor—and each and every one of these items will pass on the House Floor by an overwhelming margin. This is, after all, what Ronald Reagan would do. And this is what we will do now. Ukraine can, and will, defeat Russia. #PeaceThroughStrength
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A nation perishes when it lacks courage, when it deceives itself by saying that all is well when things are actually bad, and when it settles for mere half-truths. – Blessed Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko
„Naród ginie, gdy brak mu męstwa, gdy oszukuje siebie, mówiąc, że jest dobrze, gdy jest źle, gdy zadowala się tylko półprawdami” - Bł. Ks. Jerzy Popiełuszko Dziś wspomnienie związane z rocznicą porwania i zamordowania tego niezłomnego kapłana. Czuwaj nad nami, czuwaj nad Polską tam z Góry!
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Putin wants a new Yalta — talks would exclude Ukraine
Pierwsza Jałta uznawała sowiecką dominację nad obszarami Europy Wschodniej, które Armia Czerwona kontrolowała. Teraz Putin chce w prezencie ukraińskie terytoria, których nie daje rady podbić. wydarzenia.interia.pl/ukrain…
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We know
Wiemy to od dawna. Tu nie ma nic do rozumienia.
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