Because Russia hasn't dutifully played ball and attacked Ukraine, they are evil and deserve to be attacked by NATO.
Polonia &The Polish American Congress
" Polish-Americans in the United States comprise a voting bloc sought after by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Polish Americans comprise 3.2% of the United States population but were estimated at nearly 10% of the overall electorate as of 2012. The Polish-American population is concentrated in several swing states that make issues important to Polish-Americans more likely to be heard by presidential candidates. According to John Kromkowski, a Catholic University professor of political science, Polish-Americans make up an "almost archetypical swing vote. "
If you look at Presidential election results from 1916 to 2012the Polish community was only distracted twice. Their choice of candidate won every other election. They are an archetypical swing vote. They have been described since the 1950's as the one emigre group that could determine a national race on their own. Every candidate has paid real attentionto this trying to gain their bloc vote. As early as 1960 this included JFK.
The Polish-American communityis a tightly knit nationalist enclave and the only way for Kennedy to beat Nixon was to get the Polish vote and win it in the electoral count.
But what about today? The Irish named Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy, is connecting with his Polish roots through the Polish-American Congress in an effort to be ready for a future presidential run. Senator Murphy has started the long neglected "Polish Caucus"to better gain support and contributions later on.
Democrat Senator Chris Murphy obviously doesn't trust the average American voter. But by making his appeal to this particular super majority he's almost a shoo-in when he runs after this election cycle. Murphy gained notoriety by fully supporting the Ukrainian coup and weapons purchases for neo-nazi and Ukrainian nationalist groups killing civilians in Donbass. While I don't think Mr. Murphy is politically developed enough yet to call him a Polish nazi, the alternative classification is sad. It makes him a Pole-Lackey.
What do the Poles want?War with Russia. This is especially clearbecause Poland is pushingto make sure it happens. Bill Clinton won the Polish-American vote for helping Poland enter NATO in 1996. He recently gave his assessment of Polish nationalist politics.
Is Bill Clinton correctsaying that the Hungarians, the Poles and by extension the Polish-American community that gave them their nationalismare looking for their own authoritarian leaderand reject democracy?Yes, he is. While we think of the Poles as victims in WWII, along with the Ukrainians they were the first ultra-nationalists. It wasn't Adolf Hitler and the 3rdReich . They hate Russia and love nationalism.
They counted on the fact that their nationalism would keep Germany friendly toward them. The Polish nationalists should have thought about that before taking German and Soviet territory prior to the Great war. " Poland was accused of being an accomplice ofNazi Germany -- a charge that Warsaw was hard put to deny."
" The Pole is not free to Americanize because wherever he is -- he has a mission to fulfill" has been the rallying cry of Polish nationalistsin America all these years.
To make the point clear, the family of Jack Warner of Warner Bros. Pictures immigrated from Poland in 1888 to escape Polish nationalism/Nazism that was the fallout from the Spring of Nations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Like Ukraine before WWI, Poland did not exist except in the minds of ultra-nationalists and as an experimental model of nationalist government designed by the Habsburgs.
What was the Polish American Congress reaction to Bill Clinton's statement? " The Polish AmericanCongress threatens to undermine Clinton campaign . It's therefore, no surprise the Polish American Congress has protested, announcing it may throw its weight in the election behind anybody not named Clinton." "Polish Americans are thick on the ground in several states Hillary Clinton will need to win in November if she plans to be our next president--including Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, New York and New Jersey."
Does this sound like a super bloc vote to you? The last time a candidate insulted the Polish-Americans, it was the gaff prone Gerald Ford . Ford, until that moment, had their vote and the election against Jimmy Carter was almost wrapped up. Despite the fact that the president of the Polish-American Congress was friends with Ford, the damage was done too close to the election. The Polish-American bloc went with Carter.
Is this good for Donald Trump?Not quite. Polonia is divided on this issue because Clinton represents the best candidatefor longer range goals. November is a long way off. Full Polish support and war is only a half-hearted apology away.
Just ask Anne Applebaum, wife of former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski a staunch Polish Nationalist about how hypocritical we are to call a democracy, nationalism. " People close to the couple say she inspires his foreign policy plans and strategies" and "Europe's history, he warned before anyone else, would be decided in Ukraine."
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