Turkey, Japan, Poland and Mexico will be the new super powers.

its a trait so far inbred in Polish society its not going to be erradicated for a long, long time.

another problem with the Poles: sense of humour.

I assure you that there are many dishonest people in UK or Ireland too and I
myself and my friends have encountered some of them while working abroad.

You seem to be drawing far going conclusions as to
the entire Polish society based only on your personal experience, which is not
very sensible.

I would never go as far as saying that dishonesty is somehow inbred
in British or Irish societies.

I like Poland in many ways, but in so many others quite the contrary

Ive met many honest and great Polish people in Poland.

Wait a minute, Wroclaw Boy - it looks like:

- you like and dislike Poland at the same time,
- complain about the state of Polish roads,
- do not hold your business partners in a very high regard,
- don't like Jews very much.

May I ask how many years have you spent in Poland, because it looks
like we managed to turn you into one of us LOL

;)

Wroclaw Boy:
another problem with the Poles: sense of humour.

LOL

True - I never found Benny Hill funny.

May I ask how many years have you spent in Poland, because it looks
like we managed to turn you into one of us LOL

Sokrates

Polotics and religion dont mix although it remains the underlying fundamental just not broadcasted too much.

Fuckinhell - where did you get that idea??? I am 100% patriotic, Catholic-conservative
Pole and proud of it! FFS - the Radio Maryja family are a bunch of liberals and modernists
compared to me!

So i've read the book in detail, the guy makes some good points but mostly its rubbish, his book in a nutshell.

Russia gets better, US becomes Polands pimp and Poland happily takes the money and politically dukes it out with Russia, Russia fails, Poland partitions Russia together with other superpowers like Hungary and Romania.

Then Poland, America and said countries fight against Turkey and Germany, pwn and all is well, Poland builds an empire which alone has more balls than all of Europe put together while USA colonizes the moon only to be outbreeded by Mexicans (who will become an awesome superpower and breed like rabbits on crack).

The book ends with superpower Poland unhappy with US not allowing it to build moonbases and brewing a confrontation between it and America.

China falls over and dies mysteriously, India too, Japan becomes awesome but apparently not as awesome as Poland because America wont be helping them as much.

Ps. i shyt you not about moonbases thing.

The guy is apparently a typical American redneck, he might have a degree and lead a thinktank but he's still a dumb hillbilly, his book could be used as an argument for "why Americans are fuking stupid".

Oh yeah, there's also space wars, lasers, robots and shyt, 50% of book is US masturbation and the other 50% is masturbation over apparently randomly chosen states that get US help, he did stop short of US building a death star though.

Come back then and tell me if you still think that Turkey
is "Super Kebabs but thats about it".

So i've read the book in detail, the guy makes some good points but mostly its rubbish, his book in a nutshell.

The guy is apparently a typical American redneck, he might have a degree and lead a thinktank but he's still a dumb hillbilly, his book could be used as an argument for "why Americans are fuking stupid".

However perhaps he is not so stupid after all?

He achieved this practically without any promotion campaign.

neither proper knowledge but still managed to lighten your purse. :)

I stand corrected, in the book USA builds battlestars which are destroyed by Japan.

This book may discredit his organization in eyes of serious readers. However perhaps he is not so stupid after all? He proofed that this is possible to write completely ridiculous book and still there will be many people willing to buy it. He achieved this practically without any promotion campaign. He had nothing interesting to say, neither proper knowledge but still managed to lighten your purse. :)

So Poland a regional power like Germany today? Why not. Poland as an Empire which has borders deep in today's Russia, i dont think so.

Well, at least it's badassed. Now, I might just - borrow it from a library - just because this guy's universe seems so much cooler and more awesome than our own.

Right... I don't see that the majority of Poles are really interested in Russian territory at this point.

It would be rather troublesome to justify the action to the rest of the world,

Then Poland gets a bunch of land containing... what?

more breathing room

in exchange for taking on the territory's inhereted problems and difficulties.

Plus ethnic clashes and the like all over again.

If/when Russia falls apart the entire international order changes to an extent where people will care a lot more about the economic crisis and their regional political impact rather than Poland.

Population and territorial buffer zone as well as a staging base to excersize its influence in the future.

The lack of breathing room transformed us from a European power that others feared and respected to a dot on map, in XIV century every noble and scholar knew where Poland is and just how important it is, in Germany and Russia our envoys have been treated above the immidietate neighbours through sheer leverage we posessed, breathing space is not a little thing to have.

I dare say we can govern quite a bit better than Russia, Belarus or Ukraine, our economy and society for one is a good example, and we didnt get US aid like Germany either.

Again, in XXI century when we have experience and hindsight we alone have a chance of creating a society of equal opportunity.

Population that doesn't want to be part of the population, though. i.e. likely an extremely dissenting population, with riots and revolutions and bombs and the like.

Probably true, but if they don't want the governing and take severe active steps to fight it

But we can only do so much. I can't see ethnic, Russian-speaking Russian people welcoming Polish rule

So Poland a regional power like Germany today? Why not.

Thats one of the few valid points the guy makes, Russia is likely to fail as a state in near (30-60 years) future, their economy is based purely on exporting finite resources and their society is made completely utterly static and incapable of reforming through being communist for the better part of the century.

Also another valid point he makes, if Russia indeed falls over then the first thing that happens is instability, to have a stable frontier is in our best interests so just securing our eastern borders would be reason enough for intervention.

Plus ethnic clashes and the like all over again.

I still remember what Russians said about Hitler and Stalin, we had to pick between two tyrants, we picked the russian speaking one, offer people a better future and they'll jump on the bandwagon.

Russia might not be very powerful but it will remain to be an important subject of multi-polarized world.

Even if miraculously both Russia and Germany would become weak there is still a need for Polish leadership to run very decent policy

I think that they will liberalise their market more in he future and foreign business only wait for such opportunity. They some strong cards in their hands.

They some strong cards in their hands.

Even if such intervention would happen, this would be never Poland alone.

Poland would sent troops, invest cash and get nothing instead as usual.

As I wrote above, Poland is not threatened to be in position to make such offers.

They have none, their economy revolves around two kinds of resource without anything to back it up, the nation and society lacks flexibility to go through a meaningfull reform so basically Russia is stuck on gas and oil, both very fragile.

That depends 100% on Polish politicians, right men could make the east their bytch, current goverment is incapable of anything but thats a scenario for future decades not the present.

You talk in fact about older generations.

Neither in Poland they are flexible and etc.

While Russian leadership which currently went in wrong direction will be forced to change this line.

Mind you that they want to save their power,

Remember that they don't need to bother with democratism so much as we must.

Decision process is quick and this is ideal opportunity to reform the state.

People will elect proper statesmen? Sooner cows start to fly...

They're flexible allright, just look at how far Poland went from being a communist puppet.

Who/what is going to force them?

Yes they do but they're still inflexible descendants of their own past, the best example is their adventure with Ukraine which hurt the European trust and might cost them in the future.

Which is their weakness, democracy favours free market, Russia is, was and will be a centrally directed economy.

Times change and Poland with the times, i dont know how old are you or whether you're Polish but if you are you might recall the 90s and now and tell me we're not developing fast.

Turkey, Japan, Poland and Mexico will be the new super powers.

It will happen when I wear sobrero.