here's my take as a Pole and as an international relations graduate: nothing huge is going to happen so hold your horses and stop panicking. as tragic as these two deaths are, no one's gonna use them as a reason to implement article 5 and i doubt russia is preparing some kind of major attack on Poland. what i think is going to happen is Poland will push for a) more sanctions, b) more NATO forces on the eastern flank, c) (maybe) some diplomatic consequences but nothing major. and no, Polish army is not preparing to march to russia or whatever, please take anything you read online with a grain of salt and check your sources.
Vasily Wilhelm Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (Polish-Russian, 1849-1921)
Prayer for the cup, n.d.
Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine
“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine” (Luke 22:42). - The Bible
Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe that most people did not give a shit about before February of 2022: *gets invaded by Russia*
American teenagers on social media who have never stepped foot outside of their state: "Oh shit, I am gonna die in WWIII, I am so scared, this is awful"
Poland after getting accidentally hit with Russian missiles and having two citizens die from it: *calls to invoke article 4 (NOT 5!!!)*
American teenagers, again: "Is this the start of WWIII?! I don't want to be drafted into war, I am gonna die, we are all gonna die!"
Like.
For fucks sake.
I know, I know, a truly radical idea, but maybe, JUST maybe, look critically at this situation and realize that this is not about you! You are not in any danger, sitting in your home in Bumsfuckville, state of New Noonegivesashitaboutit, on the other side of the fucking planet.
Po prostu, zamknijcie mordy.
EDIT: This post got a bit of attention, so I wanna remind people that yeah, complaining about Americans and making fun of them is fine and pretty much the sole purpose of this post, but inciting violence against them is NOT fine. *Yes, I am looking at some people in the tags.*
Ukraine is under daily russian shelling, people are being killed and cities are being destroyed by russia, while Ukraine's borders are blocked by Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Black Sea. Ukraine is surrounded from all sides, the authorities of neighboring countries are doing nothing to free the borders for the transportation of humanitarian and military aid to Ukrainians.
what is humanity turning into? the world is helping russia to commit genocides in Ukraine and Syria and wage the largest war in Europe since World War II.
it is very sad that the Poles, Slovaks and Hungarians don't understand that they will not be able to block russian tanks the way they block Ukrainian trucks with military and humanitarian supplies.
what is happening in Ukraine and Syria is a consequence of the world's passivity to the criminal terrorist actions of russia. the world must unite to defeat evil.
the citizens of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary should demand from their authorities to do everything to free the borders if they don't want the war to come to their homes one day.
Ukraine is fighting against the second army of the world. terrorist russian army. remember that only the victory of Ukraine can ensure the peaceful life of the whole world, because only by defeating russia we will show that evil will always be punished and destroyed.
Meanwhile in tankie clownland
Russia became the largest country in the world because of "counter-offensives"….
It's almost funny how most tankie clowns claim to be communists while simultaneously embracing Russian fascism, supporting the imperialism of Russia’s mega-rich ruling class, mindlessely repeating the Kremlin's propaganda and cheerleading their war crimes.
These morons seem to have no idea that the Russian Federation is an empire made up of many conquered states that Russia invaded, occupied and colonised in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, or that Russia's war against Ukraine is a brutal attempt to reassert control over one of its former colonies. Russia's history of imperialism is at least as bad as that of any western country - and they're still doing it in the 21st century….
Imagine nations having something really embarrassing happen to them. It could result in a death or simply be a whacky dare that they are forced to do.
They go on with their life thinking "wow, sure am glad no one saw that happen!"
Only to be flipping through the channels one night, some years or even decades later, to find out an entire Unsolved Mysteries episode about it. In horror, they quickly Google it. Only to find out an entire Reddit page dedicated to it, hundreds of YouTube videos, and TikTok's with millions of views.
The head of the Russian occupation administration of Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, said that Russia’s goal is to occupy not only Ukraine, but also the Baltic countries, Poland and Finland. Because these states are "the historical lands of Russia".
"The Russian Empire, when it was shaken after the Bolshevik coup and took a different path of development lost a lot of its subjects (citizens). I'm not talking about lost lands now, that goes without saying, I understand that these are both Warsaw and Helsinki. And Revel (Tallinn) and Liepaja... And of course the entire Baltic region is all our lands and our people live there. The fact that they have now been made into a "dump herd" and "trembling creatures" - we must correct this.
"And we will correct this situation with the power of Russian weapons. I don't believe in any diplomacy in this case. Well, perhaps diplomacy should always be present, but I believe that we can return all this (to Russia) only by the force of Russian weapons. Bring back you people, your subjects who previously belonged to the Russian Empire and today belong to the Russian Federation. This must be done so that the whole world does not turn into the Sodom and Gomorrah that is now happening in Europe."