{"id":105654,"date":"2026-11-02T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=105654"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T01:21:21","slug":"poland-attempted-coup-whats-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/poland-attempted-coup-whats-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland? Attempted Coup? What&#8217;s going on?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7NC7-2GvcU?si=4zG0ngdf6d93y1QJ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Steven Barrett &#8211; Barrister<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 31 Oct 2026<\/p>\n<p>A description of the lead up to, and the fundamental disagreements about the EU that led to armed police on the streets of Warsaw threatening Judges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2026\/11\/some-analysis-on-the-political-upheaval-in-poland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perry de Havilland<\/a> at <em>Samizdata<\/em> for the link.<\/p>\n<p>On X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brivael\/status\/2116509676820906032\" target=\"_blank\">Brivael le Pogam<\/a> posted:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-01-at-20-07-24-Brivael-Le-Pogam-on-X-\ud83d\udea8-European-union-and-globalists-just-crossed-a-line-it-cant-uncross.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-01-at-20-07-24-Brivael-Le-Pogam-on-X-\ud83d\udea8-European-union-and-globalists-just-crossed-a-line-it-cant-uncross-480x116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-105655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-01-at-20-07-24-Brivael-Le-Pogam-on-X-\ud83d\udea8-European-union-and-globalists-just-crossed-a-line-it-cant-uncross-480x116.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-01-at-20-07-24-Brivael-Le-Pogam-on-X-\ud83d\udea8-European-union-and-globalists-just-crossed-a-line-it-cant-uncross-150x36.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-01-at-20-07-24-Brivael-Le-Pogam-on-X-\ud83d\udea8-European-union-and-globalists-just-crossed-a-line-it-cant-uncross.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\ud83d\udea8 European union and globalists just crossed a line it can&#8217;t uncross. And almost nobody noticed. \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Friday night in Warsaw, the president of Poland&#8217;s Constitutional Tribunal was suspended for a month. Within hours, police sealed off the building. The head of the country&#8217;s highest court was left standing outside the gates of his own court. Protesters cut the chain on the gate with a saw. The President of Poland turned his plane around mid-flight to Senegal and rushed home in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Tusk&#8217;s response: &#8220;Restoring the rule of law is our duty. There is no other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read that again. Restoring the rule of law with riot police around a constitutional court.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Whether you like PiS and its judges is not the point. The point is the precedent. A government just showed that you can push out the head of a supreme court through an internal maneuver, secure it with uniforms, and call it &#8220;the rule of law.&#8221; The next government, whoever it is, now has the playbook.<\/p>\n<p>And Brussels? Not one word of condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>The same Brussels that froze billions for Poland for years in the name of judicial independence. That triggered Article 7. That unlocked everything within weeks the moment the &#8220;right&#8221; government took power.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f The message to 450 million Europeans is crystal clear: the rule of law is no longer a rule. It&#8217;s a label. You stick it on your allies and peel it off your enemies.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s exactly where everything breaks.<\/p>\n<p>A civilization rests on one thing: trust in the rules. That the rule applies to you the same as to me. That a judge doesn&#8217;t depend on who won the last election. When that trust dies, everything else follows. Slowly at first. Then all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Look around.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Security: a high-intensity war on our doorstep for over four years, armies we let wither for three decades, a defense that still depends on Washington, and a continent unable to decide anything fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Economy: energy we can&#8217;t afford, industry packing up and leaving, not a single tech giant at American or Chinese scale, growth running in place, and a regulatory machine that produces more rules than companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Politics: governments hanging on by a handful of votes, voters who no longer believe anyone, and trust in institutions at rock bottom everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>At the top, an elite that spent twenty years telling us everything was fine, that the project was irreversible, that the only real danger was &#8220;populists.&#8221; They&#8217;re taking on water from every side. And they know it.<\/p>\n<p>When a system feels its legitimacy slipping through its fingers, it does exactly what Warsaw just did: it replaces persuasion with force, and calls it virtue.<\/p>\n<p>It never starts with a spectacular collapse. It starts with one institution bypassed &#8220;for a good cause.&#8221; Then a second. Then you stop counting.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Warsaw, October 30, 2026. Remember the date.<\/p>\n<p>The other dominoes are already tipping.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darekwiewiorka\/status\/2116890448706887815\" target=\"_blank\">Dariusz Wiewi\u00f3rka<\/a> points to the pipelines, essential to Germany, that run through Poland as the key to understanding the dispute:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll explain to you exactly what&#8217;s happening in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>After the destruction of Nord Stream, the German industry fell into an extreme crisis and is simply dying without cheap Russian gas. Due to the war in Ukraine, it&#8217;s through Poland that the last two functioning pipelines from Russia to Germany are running. Yamal with a capacity of 33 billion m\u00b3 and the Druzhba oil pipeline. Germany, to save its industry, must take control of Poland, and that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;re doing. The rest is just background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-105658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes.jpg 554w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Eastern-European-pipeline-routes-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Barrett &#8211; Barrister Published 31 Oct 2026 A description of the lead up to, and the fundamental disagreements about the EU that led to armed police on the streets of Warsaw threatening Judges. H\/T to Perry de Havilland at Samizdata for the link. On X, Brivael le Pogam posted: \ud83d\udea8 European union and globalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,84,53],"tags":[715,1517,337,228,1301],"class_list":["post-105654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-government","category-politics","tag-constitution","tag-coup","tag-eu","tag-poland","tag-warsaw"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ru6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105659,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105654\/revisions\/105659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}