has argued that Poland would be safer if Ukraine ceased to exist as an independent state. In an article published on 16 October 2026, the Polish portal presented either Ukraine’s incorporation into Russia or its complete political subordination to Moscow as the answer to Warsaw’s eastern-border concerns.
The proposal reverses the security calculation followed by Poland and NATO: it treats a sovereign neighbour as the danger and Russian expansion as the remedy. Yet Russian control of Ukraine would not move Moscow farther from Poland. It would extend Russian power towards a NATO member’s frontier.
Subordination presented as protection
The article claims that, after almost 40 years of the Third Polish Republic, Polish statehood has deteriorated so badly that the security of the eastern border can be guaranteed only by bringing Ukraine into Russia or placing it fully under Russian political control. It further asserts that Moscow would then have no claims against Poland.
It also says that Ukraine would pose a serious danger to Poles if it remained within the supposed sphere of “world Zionism”. That phrase is not an explanation of a military capability, a border dispute or a specific policy affecting Poland. It is an antisemitic conspiracy narrative that portrays Ukraine and its international partners as instruments of a hidden global force.
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Founded in 2011 as a platform for bloggers and citizen journalism, presents itself as an independent forum for political and social subjects that it believes receive too little attention in Poland’s major media. Its publications have regularly criticised the European Union, NATO and Western support for Ukraine. The portal has also frequently reproduced narratives associated with the Kremlin’s account of the war, including the claim that Western policy provoked the conflict.
That editorial record does not, by itself, establish operational coordination with Russian authorities. It does show how a position favourable to Moscow’s strategic interests can be recast as a Polish national-security argument: Russian domination of a neighbouring country is described as protection, while Ukrainian independence is treated as the threat.
Warsaw’s calculation points in the opposite direction
Poland’s official position does not identify Ukraine as the source of the danger on its eastern flank. In a joint statement issued on 15 January 2025, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Europe’s security and defence were a shared interest and a joint responsibility. They identified Russian aggression as the main source of instability on the continent.
NATO likewise describes Russia as the principal direct threat to the Alliance’s security and has said that Russian aggression against Ukraine fundamentally changed Europe’s security environment. Within that framework, a Ukraine controlled by Moscow would not create a safer buffer for Poland. It would give Russia additional territory, political influence and military reach immediately beside a NATO member.
This is the central weakness in ’s argument. If Ukraine lost its sovereignty, Russian power would not retreat from the Polish border. Moscow would gain a much larger zone from which to exert military and political pressure across Eastern Europe. The proposed solution would remove a barrier to Russian expansion rather than remove the expansion itself.
For Warsaw, support for Ukraine is therefore more than solidarity with a country under attack. It is part of a regional-security strategy aimed at preventing a hostile power from imposing an exclusive sphere of influence over Eastern Europe. Ukraine’s ability to defend its territory limits Russia’s room for manoeuvre; Russian control of Ukraine would enlarge it.
The same logic explains Poland’s long-standing support for closer European and Euro-Atlantic ties for Ukraine. European integration can reduce the “grey zones” in which external powers apply political, economic and military pressure. A stable Ukrainian state linked to European structures would, in this view, strengthen deterrence along the eastern flank of the European Union.
Conspiracy language shifts responsibility
The reference to “world Zionism” performs a political function separate from the article’s claims about borders. It reduces complex relations among Ukraine, Poland, the EU and their allies to the alleged activity of a secret, coordinated power. Such language can make Ukraine appear artificial or externally controlled while casting Western assistance as proof of manipulation.
Combined with hostility towards the EU and NATO, the conspiracy narrative shifts responsibility for the war away from Russia. Ukraine and its supporters become the supposed agents of foreign interests, while Russian domination is recast as an instrument of order. The result is not a concrete assessment of Poland’s military risks, but an ideological framework in which surrendering a neighbour’s sovereignty is made to look defensive.
These themes have consequences beyond the argument over Ukraine. Antisemitic conspiracy theories can undermine trust between allies, encourage hostility towards European cooperation and weaken public support for assistance to Kyiv. They also provide a way to challenge the idea that Russia’s aggression, rather than Ukraine’s existence, is the principal source of insecurity in the region.
What the proposed cure would mean
The call to end Ukrainian independence conflicts with the principles of the United Nations Charter, which is based on the sovereign equality of states and prohibits the use of force against their territorial integrity and political independence. Subordinating a neighbouring country to a regional power would not simply create an alternative security arrangement; it would overturn the rules intended to protect Europe’s borders.
For Poland, that principle has an immediate strategic meaning. Its security depends on alliances, but also on whether states in Eastern Europe can retain autonomous institutions and choose their own political and military partnerships. A Ukraine dominated by Russia would create a large Russian sphere of influence next to Polish territory and increase pressure along the EU’s eastern frontier.
therefore asks its readers to accept the opposite of Warsaw’s stated security assessment: that Russian expansion would protect Poland better than Ukrainian sovereignty. The concrete consequence would not be greater distance from Moscow, but a stronger Russian presence on Poland’s doorstep.
