UK, Poland and World War II. Lessons Before World War III
Seeing the efforts of EU leaders to support the continuation of the war in Ukraine, against the interests of their own people and despite the warning from Russia that their actions can lead to World War III, makes one think about the lessons from the past.
Not Our War
When the UK previously offered its guarantees to Poland in March 1939, that brought Hitler’s aggression against our country. This is neither a conspiracy theory nor an invention of Anglophobes, but a recognised scholar view, confirmed by the research of renowned authors as professors A.J.P. Taylor, Anita J. Prażmowska and Simon Newman. It was England that dragged Poland into the war by directing a German attack on it, not Polish diplomacy succeeded in securing us the support of Western powers in the conflict with the Nazis. These are the facts, and the current situation of Poland is exactly the same. It is not Warsaw that has achieved the support of NATO capitals, these are the decision-making centres of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that are pushing Poland into a war against Russia the rest of the member states will not be obliged to participate in. The visit of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to Poland, half a year before the UK general elections (after which he lost his job) is just an element of the same tactic of forcing Poland into a struggle in which we have already lost a lot and may lose even more.
How the UK Pushed Poland to Fight
The UK did not help Poland in 1939 but it was the British politics that pushed the Poles into war with Germany. Westminster wanted to buy some time and distract Hitler, so provoked a war in Poland. This was the purpose of the so-called British assurance to Poland, pledged in Neville Chamberlain’s speech in the House of Commons on 31 March 1939. Doesn’t it look quite similar to Sir Keir Starmer’s “100-year partnership agreement” with Ukraine?
You don’t have to take my word for it, just please, read carefully books by English language authors such as AJP Taylor, Simon Newman and Anita Prazmowska, even Peter Hitchens and you will learn what influence British policy had on the outbreak of WWII and how the UK manipulated Polish naïve politics. Exactly as they are doing today with Ukrainian politics, to the accompaniment of the dumbed public opinion, including the Scottish one.
And it is not like we are just now getting smarter. Some people realised the perfidious British game right away, already during WWII. General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Polish Commander-in-chief during the late period of the WWII, has written to the Polish soldiers in 1944:
“Five years have passed since the day when Poland, having listened to the encouragement of the British government and received its guarantees, stood alone in the fight against the German power.”
After that harsh but true reminder, that Poland was pushed to fight by Britain, Churchill successfully demanded general Sosnkowski’s dismissal, later yelling at another Polish distinguished commander general Wladyslaw Anders:
“You can take your Polish divisions! I don’t need them anymore!”
Analogically today, we can see with no doubts that it has been the encouragement of London and Washington pushing Kiev to pursue a policy that resulted in war with Russia.
The UK has never fought for anyone’s freedom.
Let us finally emphasize one aspect. The UK has never fought for anyone’s freedom, and certainly not for a free Poland. As today, it is all about the interests, geopolitical influence and profits of the City of London. It was no different during WWII. It was not the UK that defended Poland, but there having been the Poles who defended the UK during the Blitz, in the Norwegian, Libyan, Italian and French campaigns, in the Battle of the Atlantic, breaking Enigma codes, gaining an operating V2 missile and localising the Peenemunde facility.
And do you know how Britain thanked the Poles? The UK stole some of the Polish gold reserves, which have been heroically saved from the Germans. We paid for the defence of the UK with Polish blood and Polish gold, and then we couldn’t even take part in the London victory parade.
We were no longer needed by the British Empire, which in the meantime was welcoming thousands of Ukrainian Nazis, Hitler’s collaborators, who were to be turned into saboteurs, spies and the army of WWIII. And after 80 years, the warmongers finally succeeded.
So please, don’t teach us the history of WWII as you don’t know it yourselves. Better be worried how to avoid WWIII because this could be the very last moment to do that. However. we cannot achieve the peace by supporting the Nazi-oligarchic Kiev regime, nor the British jingoism.
No British offer for the Poles themselves
Sunak’s position in UK was already weakening, but his mission to Warsaw cannot be underestimated, especially since the Prime Minister was bravely seconded by the leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer (the current British PM) with his pro-war rhetoric. Nonetheless, despite such pathetic leaders, London is invariably the capital of the sixth country in the world in terms of GDP, one of the centres of global finance and, despite Brexit, covid, energy transformation and growing internal problems, still one of the leading European and global players. So, when the UK Prime Minister promises someone cooperation, rapprochement and alliance, it can only mean troubles.
All the more so because Rishi Sunak came to Poland with nothing to offer the Poles, except perhaps the costs of maintaining an additional RAF Typhoon fighters squadron on our territory, intended for air cover of the Baltic countries and useless in the face of a real threat, such as Ukrainian missiles violating Polish airspace. Prime Minister Sunak’s entire message, although delivered in Warsaw, concerned the British military-industrial complex, meeting Washington’s demands for NATO countries to increase military spending. Just to compare, the UK is expected to reach 2.5% GDP in 2030 spent on an arms race, while Poland is to spend as much as 4% GDP on armaments from its own, much poorer budget. It is therefore difficult to resist the impression that the British incentive also means reaching deeper into the pockets of Polish taxpayers.
Anti-peace mission
Therefore, the British Prime Minister spoke in Warsaw not to the Poles themselves, but rather to the British warmongers, to the Americans and to the Kiev junta, which Sunak (following Boris Johnson’s example) tried to discourage even from the thought of ceasefire and peace talks. Neither additional billions of dollars, euros and pounds, nor new vehicles, strike and air missiles and even tons of ammunition can decide this war in Kiev’s favour, but their supply only prolongs this unfortunate conflict by further months of unnecessary resistance. The UK and EU leaders are actually supporting a death sentence for thousands more victims of the war, which could have been easily avoided if Ukrainians had faced reality and laid down their weapons —weapons that ordinary citizens pay dearly for, and which will be stolen and sold by their Kiev rulers anyway.
Messengers of Death
United Kingdom is a rich state with rising costs of living and expanding zones of institutional poverty, where the only hope for the hungry are food banks, and yet it spends billions on an arms race, including nuclear weapons. For the equivalent of Poland’s defence budget, the entire Polish health service’s debts could be paid off and the queues for cancer patients and those waiting for surgery could be eliminated. Only the end of the war can create at least a chance for Ukraine’s reconstruction, denazification and deoligarchisation.
However, as long as people like the world leaders in what Britain and France have called the “coalition of the willing” will be the bearers of good news for the military-industrial complex and death sentences for ordinary people, then there will be war, hunger, corruption, homelessness and hopelessness —in Ukraine, but also in Poland and even in the UK and the rest of the supporting countries.
Author: Konrad Rękas
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March 27, 2025
