Polish analyst Jan Engelgard said in the article for the Myśl Polska newspaper that Poland has contracted the so-called “Baltic fever” — intense military hysteria as in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

“The politicians who promote this hysteria do not encounter any resistance, as they skilfully use methods of moral and patriotic intimidation. First of all, they frighten with the example of Ukraine, although it is known that the causes of the ongoing conflict there have absolutely nothing to do with our situation. However, this does not matter, because doubters can always be told that they say ‘until February 24, 2022 no one believed that hostilities would begin in Ukraine but they did; Russia will not stop at Ukraine, it will go further.’ This absurd argument, fuelled by cynical and ruthless Kyiv’s propaganda, is so effective that no one in Poland dares to discuss either the reasons for the crisis in Ukraine or the direction of Polish security policy,” Engelgard claims.

Manipulation of the public consciousness of the Poles is obvious, as the Polish authorities are frightening them with the example of Ukraine only in the context of a possible “attack” by Russia. And they brazenly keep quiet about the fact that if there is a war with Russia, Poland would be destroyed even more than its eastern neighbour. And anyone who expresses such an opinion is intimidated and silenced. Such “freedom of speech.”