Poland today:
Poland’s highest court was being hijacked. The President just took it back.
The European Union, which has an astonishing track record of destroying sovereignty, conning member states into surrendering self interest to faceless overpaid bureaucrats in the European Commission, and a litany of other crimes against culture and individuality like mass immigration of Muslims, seem to have managed to pull of a coup in Poland where a successful leader of Poland for the Polish people has been replaced with an EU sycophant.
And now suddenly, there are troops amassed on the Polish border with Russia, although that looks like it may have been a fairly normal response to a Russian military exercise. And given that a Russian military exercise immediately preceded the invasion of the Donbas, was probably a good idea.
Speaking with a knowledgeable Polish expat we know who speaks 5 languages fluently today, Her speculation was interesting.
Poland, I am told, now holds more gold than the European Central Bank. Around 632 tonnes. The ECB, 507.
- Poland is Europe’s largest gold BUYER — by far. It added ~50 tonnes recently per the World Gold Council, holds the top spot on the biggest-increases list, and the NBP has approved a plan for up to 150 more tonnes, targeting 20%+ of reserves in gold and a stated goal around 700+ tonnes.
- Poland is the largest holder in Central and Eastern Europe — Russia aside (and Russia’s ~2,300t is Asia-booked in most analyses since much is held in China/own vaults).
- Poland is the only major European economy whose gold program is explicitly framed as insurance. Glapiski has said categorically: gold is held domesticallyin Polish vaults specifically because “in the event of a crisis, external markets could become inaccessible” — and Poland repatriated 100 tonnes from London in 2019.
Poland is also a hold out against the Euro. And the EU doesn’t like that at all. They recently suckered Bulgaria into switching to the Euro and our friends there are reporting massive increase in costs of living as a result.
And Poland now faces the EU’s excessive deficit procedure. And the EU is actively trying to hook Poland’s rearmament into EU financing: the SAFE-style EU loans come with a requirement that 65% of components come from EU/Ukraine-based companies — which deliberately excludes Poland’s two main suppliers, the US and South Korea (National Defense Magazine). Warsaw has been resisting: “Poland takes Brussels’s billions but wants US, Korean weapons.” So yes — there is a live EU effort to make Poland’s military build-up financially dependent on Brussels and to redirect the procurement to German/French industry.
It’s almost as if the EU/Germany was more concerned about screwing over Trump and the USA than its own survival. Getting Poland away from its independence through gold holdings, and forcing it to stop using the USA as its supplier of military equipment.
In terms of Tusk and his politics, The Guardian’s account and Politico’s both note the EU Commission immediately sided with Tusk. Which tells you a lot.
Here is some speculation sent in by another reader that the coup in Poland could be a precursor to Martial law there:
….could be a pretext to introduce martial law ???
This Morgan-putz is really annoying:
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