On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Krzysztof Szczawinski posted about concerns that the Tusk government may be trying to provoke a military confrontation with the Russians over the Kaliningrad exclave on the northeast border of Poland:
He also shared a post from Pippa Malmgren, a former US presidential advisor:
In the New English Review, Bruce Bawer discusses the overall situation in Poland after the attempted coup over the weekend:
And now a would-be coup, which Tusk defended by saying: “I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today.” Upon learning of Tusk’s perfidy, President Karol Nawrocki, who is not a fan of the EU and who at the time was in an airplane over Spain on his way to Senegal on an official trip, turned the plane around as soon as news of the attempted coup reached him. “At such a moment”, Nawrocki posted on X, “the President must be in Poland. I’m interrupting my flight to Senegal. I’m returning.” In a subsequent post, he explained that the traitors’ “ultimate objective … is to impose EU law over Polish law, force through the EU Migration Pact [which, adopted in 2024 and already rejected by Poland, empowers Brussels to orchestrate the resettlement of migrants throughout the EU], and open Poland’s borders to tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands, of illegal migrants.” When Nawrocki’s plane reached Warsaw, the control tower, under orders from Tusk – which could hardly be interpreted as anything other than an assassination attempt – denied his plane permission to land; but as one writer on X put it, “the Polish military immediately took control of the airport’s military zone, arranged for the president’s plane to land safely in the capital, and provided security escort for President Nawrocki, with special forces personnel accompanying him throughout”.
Nawrocki then made his way to the Constitutional Tribunal, where the police had been commanded to keep him out, but, depending on which story you believe, either let him pass without incident or at first tried to deny him entry. (According to the Economist, which proffered a reliably pro-EU version of events, Nawrocki and his entourage “forced their way into the building, pushing Ms Korwin-Piotrowska out of the way”. After entering the building, Nawrocki removed Tusk’s five judges and reinstated the Tribunal president whom Korwin-Piotrowska had dismissed. And as word of all these developments spread to the Polish people, the streets around the Court began to fill with protesters – because the overwhelming majority of Poles share Nawrocki’s nationalism, not Tusk’s EU-toadyism. In 2025 they elected Nawrocki by a large margin; Tusk entered office not because the people voted him in but because there was no clear winner of the 2024 parliamentary elections, whereupon his party (which had come in second), in coalition with two other parties, appointed him to the position. In short, Nawrocki is the choice of the people; Tusk is a party animal, a coalition creature, an EU puppet. As with so many champions of globalism in the Western world, he has relentlessly presented his aggressively anti-democratic posture as a valiant defense of democracy.
The Polish people know better. That’s why they’ve gathered – peacefully, singing their national anthem – around the Constitutional Tribunal. Although various sources, including Lara Logan, described the coup attempt on late Sunday evening as having failed, Filip Styczynski, a Nawrocki partisan, posted a video outside the court on Monday evening stating that things remained at an impasse. One thing, however, is clear: the established media in Western Europe, which take it as their sacred task to squelch or misrepresent stories that make globalism look bad, have done a bang-up job with the developments in Poland; as more than one observer has pointed out, the facts about Tusk’s attempted coup would hardly have gotten out of Poland if not for X and other social media. It will be more than interesting to observe the fallout of this conflict. At stake is the profound desire of most Poles to keep Poland defiantly Polish – safe, clean, proud, free, and unapologetically devoted to its history and culture and traditions – rather than to allow it to become another increasingly Islamized hellscape like its EU-compliant neighbors to the West. If Nawrocki prevails, is it possible, or even likely, that Poland will quit the EU with all due dispatch – thereby weakening the authority of the unelected van der Leyen over other EU member states and hence, dare one hope, encouraging the citizens of those member states, too, to step out from under that well-coiffed, vainglorious dictator’s boot? Over the weekend Hungary joined Poland in kicking the Migration Pact to the curb. What’s next?
Also in that suddenly fascinating part of the world:
