In a revealing admission of Poland’s stance, if not NATO’s, on the Ukraine war, Poland’s ambassador, Jan Emeryk Rościszewski, to France announced his country’s entrance into the Ukraine War during a televised interview on the French La Chaîne Info channel, a free news to air channel.
“It is not NATO, Poland or Slovakia that are mounting ever more pressure, but Russia, which has invaded Ukraine. Russia, which is seizing its territories. Russia, which is killing its people. And Russia, which is abducting Ukrainian children.
Therefore, either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will have to enter this conflict. Because our main values, which were the basis of our civilization and our culture will be threatened. Therefore, we will have no choice but to enter the conflict.” [1]
After Mr. Rościszewski’s statement began to circulate throughout social media, the Polish Embassy in France issued a retraction together with a request to refrain from contorting the ambassador’s clearly articulated statement.
The Polish Embassy in France stated: “During a thirty-minute conversation with the editor, Ambassador Rościszewski argued for the need for allies to support Ukraine. He also spoke about the threat that Russia poses to Europe and European values […]”
The embassy continued: “A careful listening to the entire conversation makes it clear that there was no announcement of Poland’s direct involvement in the conflict, only a warning of the consequences that a Ukrainian defeat could have: the possibility of a Russian attack, or the involvement of more Central European countries – the Baltic States and Poland.”
The Polish Embassy’s failed attempt to cover up Rościszewski’s statement about his country’s entrance into the Ukraine war does nothing but emphasize its gravity. It is clear that based upon Poland’s decision to rearm as early as last year, Rościszewski’s admission is nothing short of the order of the day.
Furthermore, the ambassador’s admission confirms our analysis of the Ukraine war. Our analysis of the Ukraine war is that the collapse of Ukrainian forces portends the entrance of a NATO Member State into the Ukraine war, signaling the beginning of World War III.
The ambassador’s admission comes at a critical time for Zelensky’s regime in the Ukraine war. It appears as though neither individual soldiers, nor units, nor battalions but entire companies are beginning to revolt against the Ukrainian armed force’s appalling situation, especially with regards to a planned counteroffensive.
The most discerning of the appalling conditions is the loss of life. As early as January, NATO Member States’ intelligence services, such as Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst, Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (hereinafter BND), began to warn against Ukraine’s casualties during the battle of Bakhmut.
In a report released on January 20th, 2023, the German daily, Der Spiegel, released a news flash from the BND entitled, “Bundesnachrichtendienst warnt vor hohen Verlusten der ukrainischen Armee” (the BND warms against high losses in the Ukrainian army). In the report the BND warns against Ukraine’s triple digit losses during the battle for Bakhmut.
The “triple digit losses” are beginning to take a toll on Ukrainian moral.
“Pessimism grows” together with “losses,” as reported by the Washington Post on March 13th, 2023, while Ukraine begins to fall “short of skilled troops and munitions.”
Citing an unnamed “senior official” in Zelensky’s regime, the report states: “If you have more resources, you more actively attack. If you have fewer resources, you defend more. We’re going to defend. That’s why if you ask me personally, I don’t believe in a big counteroffensive for us. I’d like to believe in it, but I’m looking at the resources and asking, ‘With what?’ Maybe we’ll have some localized breakthroughs.”
“We don’t have the people or weapons,” the senior official continued. “And you know the ratio: When you’re on the offensive, you lose twice or three times as many people. We can’t afford to lose that many people.”
Nothing less than the Zelensky regime’s future depends upon a successful counteroffensive in the Spring, if not a victory in Bakhmut. Zelensky, for instance, describes 2023 as “the year of victory” for Ukraine. His inexperienced, untrained, compliant chief of intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, whose political resume is a blank sheet, openly espouses the illusion of Ukrainians vacation this summer in Crimea.
Neither a victory in Bakhmut nor a Spring counteroffensive are realistic, esepcially as soldiers, units, battalions, or companies begin to revolt against the Zelensky regime. The deep, sopping wet, slushy mud in Ukraine is the only challenge holding the Russians back from causing the collapse of Ukrainian armed forces.
While Russian armed forces, which appear to have deliberately allowed the T0504 highway to continue allowing Ukrainian armed forces to feed its soldiers into the jaws of Bakhmut’s ‘meat grinder,’ Spring’s introduction of hardened mud entails a further escalation in the death toll, as the enhanced maneuverability enables armored vehicles into the fray without impediment. Spring is on its way.
[1] – [“Soit aujourd’hui l’Ukraine va défendre son indépendance, sinon en tout état de cause nous serons obligés de rentrer dans ce conflit.”]