Quite the hash was made last week of Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s comments alleging that Warsaw was prepared to cut off supplies of aid and weapons to Ukraine amid an agricultural dispute, although Morawiecki’s clearly wanted to be as theatrical as possible.
“We are no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming Poland with more modern weapons,” the prime minister thundered. Those remarks seemed to be reinforced by comments from Polish president Andrzej Duda, who compared Ukraine to a “drowning person” to whose aid you come at your own risk. These comments prompted consistent critics of the West’s support for Ukraine’s sovereignty against the Russian onslaught to cling to them like flotsam in a shipwreck:
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