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Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki appealed to the West to stop appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin's “resurgent imperialistic aspirations”.
Mateusz Morawiecki appealed in an article for The Economist magazine, stating that the West needed to choose between supporting Ukraine or Russia, as there was no middle ground.
He recounted the Munich agreement of 1938 and the events that followed shortly after, mirroring them with the current situation in Ukraine. “The policy of appeasement, spearheaded by Britain’s prime minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain, was followed by the outbreak of the second world war within a year,” he explained.
Morawiecki went on to state, “In February 2007, almost 70 years after the infamous Munich conference, Vladimir Putin openly announced his desire to dismantle the post-cold war order in Europe.”
He added, “The following year, he attacked Georgia. Six years after that, he occupied Crimea and set Donbas in eastern Ukraine ablaze. And, another eight years on, he began the bloodiest stage of his plan so far. The demons of history have returned. We are witnessing genocide again.”
The Polish Prime Minister acknowledged the economic aid provided by the European nations to Ukraine but added “there is so much more that could be done”.
He said that any Russian assets and foreign reserves should be confiscated and the proceeds should be directed to Ukraine. He urged the international community to supply more weapons to Ukraine for its defense.
Morawiecki also added that the “EU must impose an embargo on Russian energy resources and exclude all Russian banks from the SWIFT system that enables the transfer of money.”
He called on the international community to collect evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
“Those responsible for torture and war crimes should be cut off. Those who have not learned from the history of appeasement are doomed to repeat it,” he concluded.
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The original article by the Polish Prime Minister appeared in The Economist