As you can see
at the following map, Poland
is the only way that can be used by a large European army, in order to march towards
Russia , or by a large Russian
army in order to march towards Europe . See map
1.
Picture 1
The green
area in Northern Europe is called the Northern European Plain, and it is a
corridor that can be used by an army in order to avoid the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains . See map 2.
Picture 2
The
Northern European Plain is basically a gateway to Russia
and a gateway to Europe . That’s the route used
by Napoleon the Great in 1812, when he decided to invade Russia . That’s the reason that
under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 the Nazis and the Communists agreed
that Russia would take half
of Poland , and also Lithuania , Estonia ,
Latvia and Finland . See map 3.
Picture 3
It was
necessary for Russia to
control Poland , Lithuania , Latvia
and Estonia , in order to be
able to protect her borders from Germany . You can see from map 1
that once the Northern European Plain is passed, a much larger corridor can be
used by an army, in order to reach Russia . That corridor increases
from 500 kilometers to 5.000 kilometers, making it much harder for a Russian
army to protect the Russian borders. That’s why Hitler had to allow Stalin to
control half of Poland ,
together with the Baltic States and Finland , in order to lure him into
a deal. In September 1st 1939 the Nazis marched into Poland , and in September 17th of 1939
the Communists marched into Poland
too.
However
when Hitler decided that the oil that was sent to Germany
by Stalin was not enough, and he decided Germany
had to take control of the oil of Baku in the
Caspian Sea, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was not enough to save Stalin, because
the Russian army did not manage to stop the Germans in Poland . The Russians managed to stop
the Russians in Stalingrad , a long way down
the road. During this war England
and the US were constantly
supplying the Russians with arms through the Middle East ,
which was under the allies’ control. See map 4.
Picture 4
Because of
her great geostrategic importance, in the past Poland has been destroyed many
times, and that’s why the Polish people are pro-Americans, and they do not
trust neither the Germans nor the Russians. When the Germans and the Russians
agreed on the construction of the German-Russian natural gas pipeline, the Nord
Stream Pipeline, which would connect Russia
to Germany through the Baltic Sea , the Polish were very worried.
A Polish
minister publicly criticized this agreement, and compared it to the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, as you can read at the following article from
the German Spiegel, titled “Indirect Hitler Comparison: Polish Minister Attacks
Schröder and Merkel”, May 2006. Today, like in 1939, the Russians supply the
Germans with energy, and the Germans supply the Russians with manufactured
goods. And given how autocratic Russia
has become under Putin, no one can say that the Polish people are worrying too
much, or without a good reason. In an effort to make things worse, Putin
defended the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 2011, as you can read at the following
article from the Financial Times, titled “Putin’s defence of Soviet-Nazi pact ramps
up security tensions”, November 2014.
The problem
is that the following situation has arisen in Europe .
In order to allow the unification of Germany ,
France
required a common currency, in order to make sure that the German economy would
not be able to run much faster than the French one. The French can use the
printing of new euros, in order to basically buy German goods for free. For an
excellent description of the struggle between the French and the Germans for
the euro see “The Tragedy of the Euro” by Philip Bagus. You can get a free copy
at the following address.
The problem
is that if at some point the Germans are tired of subsidizing the French, the
eurozone might break down, and that could lead to the breaking of the European Union
too. Under such a scenario a world war could not be ruled out, with Germany siding with Russia
and China , and France siding with the US and England . Poland
knows full well that under this a scenario, the first thing that the Germans
and the Russians would do, would be to consolidate Poland ,
in order to block NATO access to Russia . The Polish constantly ask
from NATO as much military support as possible, in order to be able to stop a
potential Russian attack, but they know that if they were to find themselves
between the Russians and the Germans they would have no chance.
As you can
see in map 1, the other route that NATO can use to reach Russia , Poland
excluded, is Finland and the
Baltic States i.e. Lithuania ,
Estonia and Latvia .
That’s why Putin warned that if Finland
ever decides to join NATO the Third World War might break out, as you can read
at the following article of Norway Today, titled “Russia
warns Finland
against joining NATO”, June 2014. Maybe Finland
is for Russia even more important
than Poland , because if a
world war breaks out Poland will
find itself encircled between Russia
and Germany , which is not the
case with Finland .
Please note
that the map of Europe in 1939 was different
from the one today, as you can see in map 5.
Picture 5
For the
Spiegel article see:
“Indirect Hitler
Comparison: Polish Minister Attacks Schröder and Merkel”, May 2006
For the
Financial Times article see:
“Putin’s defence
of Soviet-Nazi pact ramps up security tensions”, November 2014
For the
Norway Today article see:
“Russia warns Finland against joining NATO”, June
2014
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