The Future of Eastern Europe: Visions of the Intermarium

Introduction

From the perspective of the Ukrainians, as well as the rest of the world, the world is changing. The coming energy crisis, as well as the crisis of cheap labor, are re-configuring the power-structure of the world-order that has been established after the end of the Cold War — its global security proving to be fiction. At least from the perspective of the Ukrainians — who have been invaded by Russia. This invasion, at least from the perspective of Kyiv, has unraveled the fact that international organizations and international law are nothing more but mere bureaucratic conventionality. Western Europe is powerless to defend its immediate neighbors, the Eastern Europeans, from mighty Russia. Many years ago, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, claimed that, in essence, Europe — meaning Germany — is too dependent on Russian energy. For an example, the former German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, was heavily involved with the Russo-European energy project called Nord Stream.

The Anglo-Americans, on the other hand, cannot risk a nuclear war with a desperate Moscow. One must never encircle the enemy completely, as the Ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu teaches us. There must be an opening left for the enemy to flee. If the Atlantic powers are forced to militarily intervene, it would jeopardize the stability of the current world-order. Thus the United States, and its key Atlantic partner — the United Kingdom, have decided to aid the Ukrainian military by gun exports and military training. Their involvement is through proxy — as it has been always intended. One must remember the comment made by the Polish-American strategist, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Geostrategic Imperatives, that Russia without Ukraine ceases to be a European power. The strategic and geopolitical implications of that statement should be taken into deep consideration when analyzing the character of the current Ukrainian conflict.

The collapse of the illusion that was international law forces the peoples, and their states, to fight again for their place under the Sun. This collapse of international law, from the perspective of Moscow, was broken by the United States in either Iraq, or Yugoslavia — it matters not. Russia, and its people, do not see international law as legitimate, and no amount of Western legalistic reasoning is going to change their minds anytime soon. That is why Russia will never give up the attempts to revive the Soviet Empire — its most powerful incarnation yet! Western Europe, old and broken by the weight of History and the smell of Blood, will eagerly cover itself from the shadow of Russia by its Eastern European neighbors and Anglo-American protectors. The Eastern Europeans, on the other hand, are located in, what the American historian Timothy D. Snyder called — “the Bloodlands”, in his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. The name is rightly deserved. On one side, the North European Plain. On another, the Eurasian Steppe. The Bloodlands are open to attacks from all sides. Thus, the Second World War is just another episode in the region’s long and bloody history.

The European Union, from the perspective of the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, is undergoing an internal crisis — as a result of the migrant crisis which caused greater political confrontation between the conservative Right and the liberal Left. It must be noted that the conservative Right is stronger in the eastern half of the European Union — one dominated by the Slavs. For the Slavs, the European Union is not a standard of security and stability anymore — if it ever truly was, for one must take into account the differing cultural needs and potentialities of Slavs and Westerners. The Franco-German belief in the omnipotence of legal and bureaucratic mechanisms, enforced upon the Slavic East, make them defenseless against powerful enemies such as Russia or the Neo-Ottoman Turks.

Europe is on the brink of disaster.

Eastern Europeans can rely on no one but themselves!

The Anglo-Americans, the “Romans of the West” as the French historian Amaury de Riencourt calls them, need powerful and reliable allies in Eastern Europe. Although Destiny is on the side of Russia, as the German historian Oswald Spengler foresaw, that means, as the author of this article wrote in his earlier text — Neo-Sarmatism: Polish Eurasianism — the rise of the Slavic world in general, as well. As Arnold J. Toynbee teaches us, there are ways a Civilization can prolong the inevitable. It is by the cultural mechanism Arnold J. Toynbee calls “challenge-and-response”, that a Civilization can strategically extend its lifespan.

The challenge that is before the United States, and their closest partner — the United Kingdom, is clear. The Awakening of Russia represents a serious threat to its world-order. The American diplomat, George F. Kennan advocated a policy of containment against the Soviet Union. Such a policy should be renewed, and for that policy to work — America and Great Britain need new allies in the region.

Ukraine alone, however, is not a stable partner needed to enforce Western interests in Eastern Europe.

A new geopolitical entity must be established — for, as the British strategist, Halford Mackinder, teaches us, who controls Eastern Europe, controls the Heartland. And who controls the Heartland controls the World!

A Brief History of the Bloodlands

The historical disposition of the peoples of Eastern Europe in general, and the Intermarium in particular, is that of skepticism and hostility towards Russia and Germany, as well as Turkey — mainly due to the fact that the nations of the region hold a hard and turbulent history with these Great Powers. In the beginning, it were the Ottoman Turks and their Crimean Tatar allies, who were perceived by many Eastern Europeans as the enemy. Slave-owners and imperialists, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate pillaged the Slavic lands to their West, raiding villages and towns. Young beautiful women were abducted and taken away to be slave-girls serving in the Sultan’s Harem. The Ottomans were not the first Turkic people to invade the region. Long before the Ottomans, the Cumans and the Pechenegs ravaged the Bloodlands.

However, the Ottoman Empire eventually started to decline. Its decline was long in the making, but its catalyst was the Battle of Vienna, fought in 1683 AD, when the Polish winged hussars, led by their King, John III Sobieski, defeated the Ottoman armies commanded by the Grand Vizier, Kara Mustafa Pasha. As a result of his defeat in Vienna, the Grand Vizier was executed in Belgrade at the order of Sultan Mehmed IV. His death marked the last attempt of the Ottoman Empire to further expand into Eastern Europe, and thus the beginning of its centuries-long decline.

The defeat of the Ottomans allowed new powers to expand into the region. As the Ottoman shadow slowly receded, Austria and Russia began expanding across former Turkish territories. Eventually they were joined by Prussia — the Iron Kingdom of Germany. These new overlords were, in essence, no better towards the Slavic populations of Eastern Europe than their former Islamic conquerors.

Our best example is Poland.

Poland has been thrice partitioned by the Germanic states of Prussia and Austria, as well as Russia. One must not forget the Germanic character of the Russian nobility, ever since its earliest days when it was ruled by the Nordic Rurikids. After the death of Peter the Great, in 1725 AD, as a direct result of his policies, the Romanov Dynasty, alongside the entirety of the Russian nobility, underwent Germanisation — either through blood or soul.

This Germanic partition of Poland wiped it off the map for a century, before it was briefly reestablished by the French conqueror, Napoleon Bonaparte. After Napoleon’s defeat, Poland was annexed by the Russian Empire. It would remain under the watchful eye of the Russian Tsars until the First World War, when the Central Powers would liberate Poland from Moscow. However, the Central Powers did not aid the Polish out of good will — but with the sole purpose of weakening Russia. When the Central Powers were defeated, the Polish people simply refused to surrender their Destiny to Moscow again, reclaiming many Polish territories stolen by the three empires centuries earlier.

After the October Revolution of 1917 AD, Moscow was overtaken by a new political force — the Bolsheviks, adherents to the doctrine of Marxism-Leninism. These Bolsheviks dismantled the old and decadent Russian Empire and established a new power — one which would go on to become the main challenger of the United States for world domination — the Soviet Union. The Soviets, despite their seemingly anti-imperialist ideology, quickly invaded Poland. The Poles, however, successfully fended off the Soviet Reconquest. This victory would mark the end of the Red Army’s initial communist crusade against the West.

Decades later, in 1939 AD, the Soviets would return — striking a deal with the Third Reich to mutually invade Poland and reclaim lost lands. Poland was reduced to a landlocked rump state by Nazi Germany, aided by the Soviet Union. Poland would eventually rebound following the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Fall of Berlin in 1945 AD. This resurgent Poland quickly found itself under communist rule, and thus under the sway of Moscow — with its borders redrawn, once again.

After the Fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 AD, Poland is once again free to chart the course of its own Destiny. The Poles have since joined both the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, but they treat both as strategic tools for bolstering their own military and economic might respectively. The Poles, alongside many other Eastern Europeans, stand weary of the French and German intent to further federate the European Union — into something more than an economic bloc. Unlike France and Germany, the Poles have steered clear of Russian energy exports, seeking economic independence and political sovereignty from the Will of Moscow.

Ever since the beginnings of the Ukrainian conflict, Poland has asserted itself as the only reliable ally of Ukraine. It was the first country to recognize the independence of Kyiv from Moscow, back in 1991 AD, as well as the first country to send military and economic aid to the Ukraine since the start of the conflict. From Warsaw’s perspective, Ukraine is a buffer-state, the last wall which stands between Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe. Ukraine must stand its ground against Russia. Warsaw can see no other compromise.

But, protecting Ukraine from Russia means integrating Ukraine into the European Union, after the war ends. Does Warsaw truly want further integration and expansion of the Franco-German alliance we call the European Union? Do the Poles really desire to fall under the shadow of Germany? The same Germany which was even worse to the Poles than Russia ever was? Especially when we take into consideration the fact that Poland’s independence from Moscow is of a recent date?

No.

What Poland needs is a new bloc!

A new union.

Foundations and Challenges of the Intermarium

In 1991 AD, Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia formed the Vishegrad Group, a cultural and political alliance which serves as the first step towards this new union. In 2015 AD, Poland officially established the Three Seas Initiative, a looser take on the ideas of Marshal Józef Piłsudski. Under the form of the Three Seas Initiative, Poland has gathered around mostly Slavic nations skeptical of both the European Union and the Russian Federation, and its Eurasian project. The member-states of the Three Seas Initiative represent 28% of the territory of the European Union, as well as 22% of its population. These statistics should not be underestimated. The Three Seas Initiative serves as the second step towards a new bloc.

The economic and political interests of the eastern half of the European Union differ from those found in its western half. Their Souls are different — as the eastern half belongs to a rising Slavic High Culture, while its western half are the heartlands of Western High Civilization. This fact is manifested through the fact that the Eastern Europeans are generally more conservative than their Western counterparts. They are less interested in a European Federation, and more interested in developing their national economies.

However, there are problems. Strategic challenges to the Intermarium idea. For an example, Orthodox Eastern Europe is projected by demographic analysts to lose the fastest amount of population of anywhere over the next century in the world — due to low birth-rates which were caused, essentially, by the Fall of Communism. Every nation belonging to the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe will lose half of its population in the next sixty years. When nations find themselves trapped within such a negative cycle of birthrates — every coming decade grows worse than the one before, as the Wheel of History cycles ever faster towards that nation’s doom.

This population collapse, alongside the eventual retreat of Russia into the Eurasian Steppe after its possible defeat in the Ukraine, will inevitably cause a power vacuum across Eastern Europe — one that could serve as a possible theater of either German or Turkish expansionism.

Thus, the third, and final, step should be the establishment of the Intermarium.

The Intermarium: Geopolitical Possibilities and Economic Potentialities

The countries situated between the Baltic and the Black Sea have to form a new geopolitical community. This community, should by convenience’s sake be called “the Intermarium”, as the Polish statesman, Józef Piłsudski intended a century ago. There are numerous signs proving that these countries tend towards each other and that they should realize such a union. For an example, most of these Eastern European countries reject the mandatory migration quotas, despite the fact that they are members of the European Union and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The core of the Intermarium comprises countries such as Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — with the addition of Belarus, but due to the fact that Minsk is closely aligned with Moscow, Belarus is currently off-limits to this new bloc, despite its geostrategic importance to the Intermarium. Together, these countries represent a powerful geopolitical zone that connects the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea, a transport corridor between the East and the West.

United, these countries would be able to field a powerful army ensuring peace and security in an otherwise troubled region. Rich mineral resources and fertile soil would provide the foundations of economic strength which would fuel the armies of the Intermarium, as well as its political infrastructure. Their high level of education, as well as their research capabilities, would allow the nations of the Intermarium to compete in the field of global innovations.

The area of this Baltic-Black Sea Corridor, or the core of the future Intermarium, has about 84 million people — which is not a trivial amount. This region, the Intermarium, has strong economic potentialities. China, the world’s factory, has reached what the United States have reached with the Great Depression and what Japan has reached by the early 1990s AD. China and Japan underwent these forty-year-long business cycles, and have reached the end of the road. Stagnation. So, from the perspective of the Anglo-Americans, whose nations are to be found in the Core Regions of the Capitalist World-System, as envisioned by the American scholar Immanuel Wallerstein, an important question must be asked.

Who is the next low cost exporter of goods?

George Friedman, the famous American strategists, believes firmly that this new low cost exporter of goods is the Intermarium. The nations of the Intermarium have low wages and extremely educated people, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. These claims could be seen as laughable by some, but one must be reminded that absolutely no one believed that Japan would become a Great Power after 1868 AD or 1945 AD. No one believed, during the 1970s AD, that China will rise to the top of the world by the first decades of XXI Century AD. No one foresaw the rise of the Soviet Union to the status of a superpower rivaling the United States after the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917 AD. By the end of the American Civil War, in 1865 AD, no European observer could see the United States as the world’s leading power a century later.

For now, the Intermarium may seem as nothing more than a fantasy. But fifty years from now, the establishment of the Intermarium will serve the interests of the Atlantic powers as their key ally in the same manner Japan was during the early Cold War. Or China, during the later phases of Cold War.

Poland, as the largest country of the Intermarium, and in some ways the most militarily and economically advanced, must take the lead. Not only via a government program. Polish policy towards the Intermarium, as well as the rest of Eastern Europe, should include Polish investors buying businesses across the region. From Ukraine, down to Bulgaria and Greece. And it should not only buy them — but build upon them as well. This region, similarly to the examples mentioned above, is currently seeming hopeless.

Its peoples disheartened.

That is precisely why the region demands a strong Intermarium, led by a resurgent Poland. The prosperous future that possibly awaits the Baltic-Black Sea Corridor must be built. It must be willed into existence. And the oldest Will is the Will-to-Power, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche teaches us. Will-to-Power is what is needed in Warsaw. And it must be supported by London and Washington. And power can be achieved in many dimensions, as the lessons of History taught by the United States teach us. The potential Intermarium System must thus be not only an engine of war, but an engine of economic growth as well. It must be a system of economic possibility.

What must be understood, however, is that the Intermarium is not the only source of cheap labor needed for a low-cost export-oriented economy. It is only the most convenient one in order to defend Europe from Turkish and Russian strategic interests and designs. Other regions of the Earth include India and the Malay World. But they are a topic of their own, and will be discussed another time.

Cultural Policies and National Ideologies

Like the rest of Eastern Europe, as well as their Russian rivals, the Poles have been often characterized by Western observers as essentially undemocratic, due to their uncompromisingly conservative nature. However, that is not the only factor which establishes this undemocratic spirit of contemporary Poland, along with the rest of the Intermarium. Poland is a state which still embraces the ideal of a strong central government commanded by an autocratic leader to guide the nation down a long-term path to achieve the status of a Great Power. Due to its strategic position, being open on all sides, Poland, as well as the rest of the Intermarium, cannot compromise on their demand for a powerful and consistent leadership.

Poland is a Slavic and Catholic nation. As Slavs, Poles are related by blood to their Belarusian, Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian neighbors. Their Baltic neighbors are closely related to them too, for Balts and Slavs were a single people in Antiquity. As Catholics, Poles stand at odds with the Ukrainians — who are Slavic, but Orthodox, as well as with Romanians — who are neither Slavs nor Catholics. These religious and national differences should be addressed using a new ideology which would integrate the region based on their cultural affiliation. The still unrealized dream called Neo-Sarmatism should serve as this new ideological framework which would strengthen the foundations of any potential integration of Eastern Europe.

Eastern Europe should be distanced from Western Europe by the Anglo-American powers. Old and decadent Western Europeans stand no chance against the encroaching Russian and Turkish spheres of influence, for the peoples of Western Europe are spent and their Destiny has been already realized. Both the British and the Americans need passionate and vigorous new allies, and they can find them only in nations which belong to the Slavic High Culture — because the Slavs are a historically young and inexperienced people, as Oswald Spengler defined them. In contrast to Samuel P. Huntington’s thesis that members of the same civilization rarely wage war against each other, one must take a look at Medieval Europe or Archaic Greece.

Within a High Culture, there are different interpretations of its worldviews, prime symbols and spiritual needs. Athens and Sparta. France and Germany. The Aryan Kingdoms of Vedic India or the Mayan city-states of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. There are many examples of these various manifestations of the same High Culture across History. The West must use this fact to its advantage, as it must balance Russia with another Slavic power.

And there is no better candidate than Poland.

Why is Poland so important for the establishment of the Intermarium? And for Eastern Europe as well?

There is a fact we must accept — and that is that the results of the Ukrainian War are not vital or existential for Poland. They are existential for the government in Kyiv, but not for Warsaw. If Russia conquered Ukraine, the Intermarium — and the alliance of Eastern European nations around it — would be a must, due to the existential problem Russia would cause for the rest of the Western-aligned Eastern Europe. If Ukraine successfully manages to defend itself from Russia, the Intermarium is a must — in order to reestablish the Ukrainian economy, which would bolster the position of Poland within the Capitalist World-System.

Nation-building demands a strong economy and a strong military. The Intermarium, governed by Poland and possibly fueled by Ukraine, would indeed possess both. But fire must be fought with fire. In order to serve as a Western bulwark against Russian expansion, the Intermarium must develop its own Slavic culture and Eurasian identity. It must possess the same spiritual strength as Russia in order to effectively combat Russian influence.

After the Fall of Communism, there is no real ideological force which unifies the vast expanses of Eastern Europe. Thus, Eastern Europe must be overtaken by a new ideology or religion, which would unite the bickering Catholic and Orthodox Slavs behind a single purpose. Ruralization is certainty for the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe. As the Anglo-Americans, due to the coming phenomenon we only know as Caesarism, as defined by Oswald Spengler and Amaury de Riencourt, become more involved in controlling Western Europe — Eastern Europe becomes the Frontier.

This war-torn Frontier must be united by some form of spirituality. Due to the overwhelming nihilism of the Modern World, and the crisis of Christianity, this author believes that, in the coming centuries, the Eastern Europeans will adopt some form of a new Christian faith, whose doctrines will be manifested, and reinvigorated, through some sort of a Nitzschean Prophet which will establish this world-view and whose followers will impose it across Eastern Europe. The State will become the Will of the Nation personified. In essence, Will-to-Power will be regarded as God’s gift to Man.

The pursuit of excellence as Man’s redemption from the First Sin.

However, this is just a possibility. No one really knows what the future holds. Especially one so remote that it would demand a figure of reckoning such as this potential Nitzschean Prophet. What the Anglo-Americans need to do now is to allow the rise of new ideologies in this region — in order to fill the void left by the Fall of Communism. Authentic new ideas, created by the brightest minds of Eastern Europe. Poles and Ukrainians, as well as the rest of Eastern Europe, should analyze and adopt religious and philosophical concepts from Russian thinkers, scholars and theologians such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolay Danilevsky, Lev Gumilyov, Nikolay Berdyaev, Vladimir Solovyov, Alexander Zinoviev and others, while merging them with their own spiritual needs and intellectual pursuits.

That is why the spiritually Eurasian trends which have taken root in Poland and Hungary, such as Sarmatism and Turanism respectively, must be actively supported by the Anglo-Americans. The Eurasian and Slavic identity of Eastern Europe must be enforced in order to keep its vitality. Such identities should be widely promoted in order to combat the potential demographic collapse of Eastern Europe due to its unnaturally low-birth rates. A strong Eastern Europe, with its own authentic identity, would be the perfect bulwark against potential threats from Russia and Turkey. A new cultural policy must be developed by these nations. A new ideology to guide the masses of Eastern Europe towards a single purpose.

A Possible Expansion of the Intermarium

Integration should not be limited to the Baltic-Black Sea Corridor. In the aftermath of the Ukrainian conflict, Poland must step up and assume leadership over Eastern Europe. Due to its historical friendship with Hungary, as well as the Slavic sense of brotherhood between the Western Slavs, Poland could secure Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia as key allies of the Intermarium. Poland should be allowed by the Anglo-Americans to pursue a more local and dependable mutual defense solution, which initially may be only an additional layer of defense on top of the already established North-Atlantic Treaty Organization infrastructure. This new alliance, centered around the Intermarium Bloc, could serve as the eventual replacement of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization’s infrastructure in the region, allowing the Anglo-Americans to delegate their strategic policies in Eastern Europe to the Intermarium.

On a long enough timeline, Poland could be expected to consolidate the Intermarium into a closer union oriented around Warsaw. The core regions of the Intermarium — Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia — should be the axis of this new state-like union. Slovakia could possibly be included as well. Due to their deep sense of nationalism, as well as their broader linguistic differences, countries like Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania would most probably stay out of the Intermarium Union of States — but would certainly be closely allied with it. Czechia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania must be part of the Intermarium’s broader economic sphere of influence in order to truly strengthen the Union.

Thus the Intermarium project should consist of three independent, but parallel projects. The first should be the project of an Intermarium State, which would be centered around its core region, the second should be the establishment of a broad economic zone of interest manifested as an international organization similar to the European Union, while the third should be the formation of a broad defensive alliance which would organize Eastern Europe into an effective borderland against possible German, Russian or Turkish expansionism.

In order to further reinforce the presence of the Intermarium, its policy-makers could consider expanding their influence into countries such as Finland, Moldova and Romania. This initial expansion of the Intermarium’s sphere of influence would mark only the beginning. Other possible allies of the Intermarium include: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia and Slovenia. The Intermarium could expand its sphere of influence even further — by integrating the rest of the Balkan Peninsula: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia. At its maximum extent, the Intermarium would stretch across the entirety of Eastern Europe, from the snowy mountains of northern Finland to the sunny islands of the Greek Aegean.

Conclusion

Thus the author of this article can see a potential power rising in the East, that can not only stake a claim for regional leadership, but also claim the status of a global player. The West needs strong and reliable allies. New markets and new economic possibilities. In the coming century, which holds the potential to be the bloodiest yet, the Western High Civilization needs to aid the development of younger societies to its own benefit.

Just as the West cultivated modern Japan to suit its needs, as Japan was needed first by Britain in the XIX Century AD and then by America in the XX Century AD, in order to contain Russian expansion, now the West needs the Intermarium. Just as the Austrian monarchy used the Krayina Serbs to protect its borders against Ottoman expansion, the West, once again, needs the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe to guard itself from potential threats coming from the East.

It would be a massive waste of strategic, economic and geopolitical potential if this opportunity is missed. That is why the West should not waste time, and take swift and decisive action towards the establishment of the Intermarium. When we observe current political trends in Poland and Hungary, as well as the rest of Western-aligned Eastern Europe, we can clearly see a conservative and nationalist tide rising across the region. Eastern Europe could serve as inspiration to the Western Man to return to his original religious and societal values, for the challenges of the XXI Century AD will certainly demand such a return.

The weight of such a decision should not only fall upon the shoulders of Western statesmen and strategists. The politicians of Eastern Europe must awaken themselves to the new possibilities offered to them by their Slavic and Eurasian heritage, as well as to the economic opportunities their region holds. They must seize their Destiny with their own hands! The West can certainly aid them, but they must be able to march on on their own. They must be ready to make their own decisions. Oswald Spengler teaches us that a High Culture is usually born when it finds itself face-to-face with Death. Eastern Europe faces a demographic catastrophe — one which cannot be solved by Western support. New policies must be drafted by the statesmen of Eastern Europe, towards integrating the region into a powerful political entity which would revitalize their peoples. Their Anglo-American allies can only offer their support — but the future which awaits Eastern Europe must be taken by the Eastern Europeans themselves.

In a weird way, on a long-term basis, the establishment of the Intermarium will ultimately benefit Russia. Currently, Russia is the only Great Power to exist in the Slavic World. The Intermarium, and its allies, would be the perfect rival Russia needs to internally reflect upon its Destiny and develop itself towards an authentically Russian identity. Why? Because, as Western history shows us, competition between various powers and nations within a High Culture leads to mutual development — either through war, economic or technological endeavors.

As the Ancient Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, teaches us: “War is the father of all things.”

And thus, we can only hope that the Ukrainian War is the catalyst which will bring about the establishment of a new power that will unify the Bloodlands and usher in a new era of political stability and economic growth.

Poland must never forget the glories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As Moscow declares itself as the Third Rome, Warsaw should pursue its own national ideology — that of being the Christ of Europe. And Western Man should never forget the Battle of Vienna, when all hope was lost before the mighty Ottoman legions…

Until the Winged Hussars arrived!