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Hard to say if CDU/SPD German leadership are purposefully following Stresemann’s legacy, but it increasingly becomes obvious that Germany is trying to drag Poland into the “German team”, alongside with Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, and others (surprisingly, Czech Republic is less so). I don’t know if it’s good or bad – this is for the Poles to decide. Might actually be not the worst thing.
For our use we can divide EU into two blocks: German block and French block. While the French one can be compared to a pocket empire, known as
Union for the Mediterranean, Germany plays the role of policeman and establish order in the entire union.
Words "German team" suggest that all members in the group are equal. Again, I would said that it is relation of far dependency much more than equality. To answer the question "if it's good or bad" we should abstract from all these things and focus on bilateral Polish-German relationships.
In my opinion, it is extremely hazardous to play in this game with Germans, as long as Poland has unfinished remanenty with the Germans from World War II, expressed in the German territorial pretensions to so-called "lost territories". For now opinions that Germany does not feel bound by the provisions of the Potsdam Conference appear in the German press, but they are, and will move to the Bundestag. They motivate it by the fact that Germans were not participants in the conference. And indeed they were not, because at that time were eliminated!
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My question is whether we could do better than this. And not just for nationalistic reasons, but for civilizational. If there is something that Intermarium as a global phenomenon could offer to the human civilization, and what it could be: in terms of values, social, economic, and technological progress.
The answer is no. Nobody needs Poland, Belarus, and Intermarium except Poland, Belarus and Intermarium. The world will cope well without us, perhaps it will not even notice that we are not on the map
Those all civilisational issues are our very own business.
If not us, then someone else.The "responsibilism" idea sounds like social philosophy which depends more on people than our wishes.
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The Intermarian path to this – imho – lies through three consecutive things:
1) Creation of transborder cities, as precursors to future transnational mega-cities (benefiting from our regional diversity
Creation by providing conditions for the development, using only human initiative at the individual level. How?
The creation of a free trade zone, free movement of capital, services, goods and people. Цитата:
2) Creation of powerful modern joint Intermarian military. I see Intermarium as a militaristic union in a good way. The role of the Intermarian army should be somewhat similar to the role of the Turkish army, or the Israeli army – a unifying social factor.
Strong army will be a must, we must be able to defend ourselves against Germany and Russia.
One word about Turkish army- Kemal Ataturk founded whole modern Turkey on army, so it's far more powerful than in European countries... It plays the role of security service at all levels of social life.
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3) Creation of a joint space program – the one that would build upon #1, and #2.
Long way to do so :)