A national psyche is a national psyche. And in Poland, it has not gone unobserved that the nation’s current travails could be linked to something a little more sinister, let’s say, than simply a deteriorating economy.
Indeed, cold war-esque suspicions do appear to be bubbling away in the press.
Here’s a translation of a story appearing today in Polish business daily Puls Bizensu:
Weakening Poland is in whose interest?
“Obviously, at least Russia or the Chinese”, says Krzysztof Liedl, the head of Terroism consultancy firm Centrum Bada? nad Terroryzmem. “I know that that sort of suspicion exists and that Poland’s Internal Security Agency has been looking into it. Within the agency you’ll find the department of state economic defence, which is supposed to work to stop economic attacks on Poland. And the current situation risks becoming a catastrophe,” Krzysztof Liedl said in an interview with the The Times of Polska. According to the expert, the speculative attack on the currency is illegal. The officials of the agency will therefore be starting operations to determine who the culprits are. What kind of operations? You can for example infiltrate the structures of the presumed guilty parties and get the proof. That would provide enough information to start operational games with such an institution.
So who is leading the attack?
“This is a massive undertaking, and cannot be planned and in-acted without the help and cooperation of some sort of secret services. In cold war times both US and Russian agencies undertook this exact strategy against eachother: attacks on exchanges and financial markets. Now it seems that Poland’s weakness has become essential to someone, and in the wider context Europe’s weakness as a result of that,” Liedl said.
But at least the Poles can laugh at themselves too. Here’s one comedic picture doing the rounds in Polish cyberspace.
The joke is that it’s the Polish president’s plane — his surname is Kaczynski which can be interpreted as a ‘duck’.