After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States and Europe joined hands to impose sanctions on Russia, for which Moscow did not hesitate to fight back, originally thought that this was a contest without suspense, but half a year passed, Russia did not fall, and the Western countries fell into difficulties.
The United States is plagued by inflation, the British and Italian leaders have resigned, the social rift in France has intensified, and now Germany is being provoked by its neighbor Poland. Reuters reported that on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Poland's ruling party leader Kaczynski read out a long-awaited report.
The report reviews Germany's aggression against Poland during World War II and the huge economic and human losses caused by the massacres, and formally submits a sky-high claim to the German government totaling $1.32 trillion ( about 9.07 trillion yuan ) .
It is reported that since Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party came to power in 2015, it has repeatedly demanded compensation from Berlin for World War II crimes, but before it was basically a personal act, without going through official channels, and now it has directly brought the matter to the table, and the amount has increased from the original $850 billion to nearly 500 billion.
In this regard, Kaczynski bluntly said that this number is already the lowest and may continue to increase in the future, while Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki stressed that if Berlin does not fulfill this obligation, then Poland and Germany will not be able to achieve real reconciliation.
It is worth mentioning that the latest news shows that the German side has rejected the claim, saying that the two sides have completely resolved the above problems as early as 1953, and the Polish government at the time has repeatedly confirmed that it has waived the right to further claims.
Warsaw's sudden attack on Berlin gave a glimpse into the internal contradictions of the EU member states, but in fact the historical issues between Germany and Poland were complex, far more than just economic reparations, and even territorial disputes.
Last month, Poland's central bank governor Grappinski said in an interview that Germany was trying to reclaim the land it had given to Poland after World War II and wanted to control the entire Continent. Frankly, this is definitely a very serious accusation, and Grabinski has not produced evidence to prove his point.
You know, at present, during the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the EU countries should logically unite and the muzzle of the gun is unanimous to the outside world, but who can think that allies will actually move hands with each other first. At present, the differences between Poland and Germany should not be effectively resolved in a short period of time, but will continue to deteriorate.
The contradictions between the two sides have existed for the past few decades, but this has not affected the common development of Germany and Poland under the framework of the European Union. The fundamental reason why Poland tore its face at Germany today is that the European Union is showing more and more decline, not only unable to make the "cake" bigger, but also powerless to restrain member states.
First of all, after the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the strength of the EU was completely seen through. When the European Union first founded in the last century, its goal was to become a geopolitical force on par with the United States. At that time, Russia had just experienced the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China was far from rising, and this goal was entirely possible.
In particular, in the 1990s, the overall economic strength of the European Union was stronger than that of the United States, which brought together three old developed countries in Britain, France and Germany, and from the perspective of prospects, it did have the potential to become a global "pole".
But now, the European Union has gradually become a vassal of the United States, not only in terms of security, but also in the eyes of the United States, the War in Ukraine, and even the energy and economy have to rely on the United States. Second, the EU is strong outside the country, and member states are challenging its authority.
Taking Lithuania as an example, with the support of Washington, Lithuania has successively offended China and Russia, resulting in the European Union being pulled down, because the European Union has asked Lithuania more than once to settle down, but it has been ignored. In addition, countries such as the Czech Republic and Hungary often openly contradict the EU, completely ignoring the nominal leader Germany.
Finally, it should be noted that Poland, like Lithuania, is a crony of the United States installed in the European Union, so Poland has taken a shot at Germany, not excluding that the Biden administration is operating behind it, and the reason is very simple.
As noted above, the EU is both an ally of the United States and a threatening competitor that can create turmoil within it and drain the EU's development momentum, which Washington certainly cannot ask for.
In addition, although German Chancellor Scholz has shown a clear pro-American stance, the United States seems to be less satisfied with this result, so the Biden administration does not rule out knocking Berlin by the hand of Poland, so that the latter can be more consistent with the United States on international issues. All in all, today's EU is a domestic and external crisis, full of crises, and where it will go in the future, I am afraid it will have to be marked with a question mark.
The United Kingdom is the first country to see that this ship is going to sink, has taken the lead in "Brexit" to run away, in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, if this winter can not survive, the EU internal contradictions will absolutely break out, then to "jump ship", not to mention one or two countries.