On your knees, Poland!
Jul. 4th, 2019 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fridiU.S. to deploy troops in Poland as Warsaw raises alarm over Russian ambitions
If we picture the world's greatest superpower as some kind of deity, before whom the indigenous peoples (often called "allies") lay gifts to appease him, lest he gets angry and starts smiting them with lightnings, you'd probably think of some tiny minor countries from Latin America who've virtually been turned into banana republics, i.e. mere economic backyard appendix of the mighty America. But you wouldn't be mistaken if you also included a country as big as Poland in the list, because they're now about to spend a huge chunk of their national budget for a gift to mighty America that's as huge as it's useles. And they're doing it with gusto, and even presenting it as a big historical triumph for their nation. What could be a better subject to the almighty deity than the one willingly falling to their knees, bending over and unzipping their pants?...
If we picture the world's greatest superpower as some kind of deity, before whom the indigenous peoples (often called "allies") lay gifts to appease him, lest he gets angry and starts smiting them with lightnings, you'd probably think of some tiny minor countries from Latin America who've virtually been turned into banana republics, i.e. mere economic backyard appendix of the mighty America. But you wouldn't be mistaken if you also included a country as big as Poland in the list, because they're now about to spend a huge chunk of their national budget for a gift to mighty America that's as huge as it's useles. And they're doing it with gusto, and even presenting it as a big historical triumph for their nation. What could be a better subject to the almighty deity than the one willingly falling to their knees, bending over and unzipping their pants?...
