Journalists and politicians have repeatedly declared that populism and nationalism are fading. There have been setbacks, but the overall trend is positive. Nationalism is clearly on the rise in Europe, even though patriots face a race against time as demographics change.
Romania recently crushed a right-wing challenge through tactics that most would call brutally authoritarian if used by the Right. The Romanian government banned Călin Georgescu as a candidate after he won the first round of elections, claiming that Russia had somehow engineered his victory.
In the follow-up election, Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan defeated conservative replacement George Simion in what one source called a blueprint for the Continent: “The message to Europe is clear: Russian influence can be resisted, and centrist, democratic forces can prevail.” New Eastern Europe argued that Mr. Dan successfully portrayed himself as an outsider who nonetheless advocated mainstream policies, thus thwarting the populists. This is similar to what Emmanuel Macron did in France, where a man with no established party saved the establishment from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
Some in Romania argue that the election was stolen. The defeated Mr. Simion called the election a “coup” and his AUR party boycotted the inauguration. Romania’s Constitutional Court rejected a challenge that alleged vote buying and fraud. Mr. Simion had argued that France and Moldova interfered in the election, that dead people had voted, and that Telegram’s CEO was prepared to testify that he was told to suppress conservative voices. The court was not interested, and Mr. Dan called the case fraudulent. The banned Mr. Georgescu has retired from politics, saying that the “sovereigntist movement has come to a close.” Still, AUR leads in voter preferences according to a recent poll, though it probably could not win an outright majority. Populism in Romania was defeated, at least for now.
What just happened in Poland may be more important. With Germany deindustrializing and the French economy stagnant, Poland is becoming Europe’s economic and military powerhouse. It is the sixth largest contributor to the EU, one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, and is rapidly expanding its armed forces. Any effort to deter so-called Russian expansionism will rely on Poland.
Poland also was, until recently, the center of the “New Europe” that was setting a more conservative direction against left-wing dictates from Brussels. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has tried to reverse this. He criticized the previous administration of the conservative Law and Justice Party and pledged integration with Brussels. In response, the European Commission has been notably friendly towards Warsaw.
However, though Prime Minister Tusk took control of the government, the Law and Justice Party kept the presidency, and could therefore frustrate Mr. Tusk’s reforms. CNN claims Law and Justice “led an eight-year assault on the independence of the country’s judicial system, media, and cultural bodies,” and hoped Mr. Tusk could offer a “blueprint for scrubbing a country free of populism.” That depended on the presidential elections that pitted liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski against historian Karol Nawrocki, who was backed by Law and Justice. This was like what happened in Romania: The liberal mayor of the capital city was the establishment’s choice to see off the danger from the so-called far right.
In a move that would have been called blatant foreign intervention just a few years ago, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem endorsed Mr. Nawrocki. “I just had the opportunity to meet with Karol and listen: he needs to be the next president of Poland,” she said. The White House also hosted Mr. Nawrocki, and a photo of him with the President was prominent in the campaign. “Europe today is in a great crisis,” Mr. Nawrocki said at the recent CPAC in Poland.
One of the main reasons the conservative candidate was able to fend off accusations of “foreign influence” — which is code for Russian meddling — was his role as head of the Institute of National Remembrance. He led efforts to discredit the idea that the Red Army “liberated” Poland at the end of the Second World War. After his election, the Russian Interior Ministry reportedly put the new president on a “wanted list” because of he ordered Soviet monuments destroyed. It is hard to call such a figure a Russian stooge — though he does oppose Ukrainian membership in NATO.
The international press has reported the Polish election as a major defeat for the European Union, presaging a deadlock with Donald Tusk in Warsaw. While the president has little power to implement policy, he can derail the prime minister’s projects. “The European Union has looked to Tusk for a blueprint on undoing the effects of populism on a democracy,” said CNN, “but a victory for Nawrocki was not part of the plan.” The prime minister is defiant: “We do not intend to take a single step back.”
There is much for white advocates to celebrate in Mr. Nawrocki. He is pushing for closer ties with more conservative Central and Eastern European states rather than with France and Germany. He also wants more reparations from Germany, which, paradoxically, could help a German Right, which is inclined to reject such demands. His victory is also a political boost to President Donald Trump in his dealings with the EU on trade. Most importantly, he said he would reject the EU’s “Migration Pact,” which would commit Europe to a shared responsibility for migrants and asylum seekers. “My Poland is a Poland without illegal migrants,” he says.
He also said:
In our heritage lies the heart of who we are. We are open and ready to cooperate with people of different backgrounds. However, we expect anyone stepping into our home to respect our values and identity. That is why I cannot support what is happening with the EU’s migration policy — especially when Germany’s past mistakes could compromise the safety of Polish women and children.
“Our tradition and culture are not obstacles to modernity,” he said. “They are the foundation upon which we will build a strong, prosperous nation.” No patriot could disagree.
But the press can. Bemoaning the progressive failure in “arguably Europe’s most consequential election of the year,” the Carnegie Endowment said that “given his ideological proximity to MAGA-style conservatism, he will be an obstacle for the government on migration and rule of law issues.”
The New York Times called the election an “ominous signal,” adding:
Mr. Nawrocki’s victory signals both a missed opportunity and the possibility of a new political reality. With little to lose, the new president is likely to more energetically oppose the government. He may refuse to sign the 2026 budget, for example, a move that under certain conditions would set the stage for early elections. Populists are betting on that scenario, and if parliamentary elections are held in early 2026, current polling suggests that Law and Justice and the far-right Confederation party could form a coalition.
Internationally, the trans-Atlantic populist alliance is tightening. It is hard to maintain an understanding of MAGA as straightforwardly isolationist unless one ignores the informal meetings, shared tactics, and ideological feedback loops between populism on both sides of the ocean, as well as MAGA’s energetic interventions in European elections — unsuccessful in Germany and in Romania, and now successful in Poland. And these interventions will probably increase now that Mr. Nawrocki has demonstrated that people Mr. Trump endorses in photos can win in Europe.
“Nationalism can still be a winning platform, depending on local conditions,” said Bloomberg. “Regardless of the current stock price of nationalism, the trend line over the past several decades is up.” Bloomberg concluded that protectionism or gridlock tends to hurt a country economically, but it was the right-wing governments of Poland that gave it its prosperity, in comparison to the malaise gripping France and Germany.
We cannot assume nationalism will always rise in Europe. While the Right — rural, Catholic voters and those who favor traditional values — united behind Mr. Nawrocki, the progressives split. Some pro-choicers reportedly stayed home to punish Donald Tusk for not doing enough to expand abortion.
There are three lessons here. First, conservatives must unite. Mr. Tusk’s broad, fragile coalition government had few tangible accomplishments it could point to during its term, and that allowed a populist challenge to exploit anti-incumbency feelings. Voters overlooked media attacks on Mr. Nawrocki because they saw a fighter for their causes, and that overcame his relative youth and inexperience. Second, the combination of young men and rural voters can trump urban elites, as it can in America. The Right must keep this voting base.
Finally, impeccable nationalist credentials prevent candidates from being smeared as tools of Russia. Hypocritical as it seems, pro-immigration parties have used the charge of “Russian interference” to discredit nationalists around the world. Such a charge does not work against someone the Russian government has put on a wanted list.
Mr. Nawrocki’s remarkable campaign is proof that nationalists can still win, even in hostile circumstances, even in the most critical battleground of Eastern Europe. Brussels is on notice that a new generation is determined to Make Europe Great Again.
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Bootlicking American puppets like these cannot be called “nationalists” by any definition, and they will not “Make Europe Great Again.” They will make Europe a warzone by allowing American neocons to dictate their foreign policy agendas.
Author completely misread those elections in Poland and is clueless why Nawrocki was allowed to win while Georgescu was not.
It not about nationalism. It’s all about extreme Nawrocki’s Russophobia rejected by Georgescu, AfD and Le Pen and particular hatred to Putin he consider a reincarnate of Stalin that most Poles despise for Ribbentrop Molotov pact of 1939 that was responsible for quick demise of Second Republic of Poland and Stalinist rule of political terror in Poland immediately after WWII.
While Nawrocki may stifle Tusk’s liberal agenda in Poland he is a perfect attact dog against Russia that wins him huge applause in NATO Brussels as well as among Washington neocons who seek confrontation and to continued war against Moscow.
Nawrocki wouldn’t have been called a nationalist by western establishment and media if not for his deep, historically informed anti German attitudes and as he sees today a real present even direct threat to existence of Polish state stemming from reborn German militarism now supported by EU. Such attitudes are populist and in fact shared by majority of Poles who consider even today the most existential threat to national sovereignty stemming not from Russia but from Germany (Russia is far second) . After all there were no Stalin’s death camps in Poland only Hitler’s.
Nawrocki as a historian knows well that if it was no Polish victory over First German Reich around year 1000 AD there wouldn’t have been Polish state at all as Germans back then and now claim their rights over Polish territories roughly within current Polish borders and nurture historical revisionism. Wars with Germany were being fought for centuries before first real threat to Polish statehood ever emerged from Russians mostly because of resentment of Polish Kingdom political expansionism that briefly even included control over Moscow area and Russo German pacts that lead to first partition of Poland in XVIII and XIX century.
So nationalist label is designed to keep Nowrocki useful but marginalized even seen as a danger to EU unity by VDL who is.. German.
So Nawrocki’s agenda of today’s war insists that instead of allowing for rearming “dangerous” Germany by EU Poland should be receiving all the money and develop strong military to become the dominant European military deterrence force against Russia and by that guarantor of her own borders east and west.
Another problem with Nawrocki is that he hates Kiev NeoNazi regime of OUN ultranationalists that are responsible for Genocide of Poles and Jews in East Galicia and Volhynia 1942-1948 that were under Polish administration for over five centuries officially until 1952 as he demands Kiev regime to allow exhumation of about 150,000 dead buried in mass graves on current Ukrainian territory and Zelensky atone to crime of genocide.
Talking about political mess in Brussels Nawrocki may stir having 100% support from Polish Society as it is an extreme sensitive absolutely nonnegotiable subjects.
Every dirty trick was used in order to smear Nawrocki. Those who say they are Polish but are traitors and in opposition to everything that is just and moral feel sorry for themself. I give thanks to The Lord God in the name of Christ Jesus that truth of His Word will prevail. Brothers and those who believe stay strong in faith , follow Christ and pray. WE have many battles ahead , so keep fighting.
Polacks are human garbage.
There was a map shown by Medvedev (March ’24) that some other Western media were reluctant to publish or critique in detail, although they still had to mention it. Those in the know believe this map was intended as a message to neighbouring countries that they may find difficult to ignore.
What does this map depict? The western region of Ukraine, including the Zhytomyr region bordering Kiev, was ‘offered’ to Poland. It is about a third of modern Poland. One area (Uzhgorod) was proposed for Hungary, and two large areas were proposed for Romania. The Russians, meanwhile, would take the Russian areas along with Odessa and the Black Sea coast, including Russian Transnistria. The Kiev region remained in Ukraine’s colours, suggesting that some part of Ukraine might remain intact, possibly as an autonomous and unarmed region under Russian control.
It is known that Romania has played a questionable role in this conflict and is reportedly planning to install rocket launchers capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Poland’s role is also well-known, with thousands of Polish soldiers reportedly killed in battle. It remains to be seen what Russia will demand from these countries in exchange for these territories.
Here are some realistic assumptions of what might be offered: withdrawal from NATO (an idea Putin mentioned before the start of the operation as part of an agreement with the U.S. not to expand the alliance); integration of these territories with the neighbouring countries but without military presence—only police or very lightly armed units; linguistic and cultural autonomy for Russian populations; favourable economic agreements with these countries, including cheaper gas, oil, and mineral resources; joint projects in the Arctic; security guarantees; cultural cooperation; and similar provisions. These states, along with the new territories, could pursue their own economic and foreign policies and enter into non-military alliances freely.
The question remains whether Poland will meet the expectations of those who see them as an intelligent nation. Poland could gain a significant territory, establish permanent peace with Russia (which can still guarantee them the German borders they were once granted), and secure long-term economic prospects, a broader market, cheap raw materials, trade routes to China and Asia, and perhaps even participation in BRICS.
Alternatively, they may face the perpetual fear of a Russian attack, large defence expenditures, threats from Germany, and the likelihood that they will never gain and retain these territories by force.
The same applies to Romania, where anti-Russian sentiment is largely confined to the puppet authorities, while much of the population is mildly pro-Russian, does not see Russia as a threat, and they don’t want to leave their bones under some new Stalingrad like 160K of their grandfathers.
Of course, we can expect sabotage from the British and pressure from the Americans, who are aware that such an offer may be difficult to refuse. Overall, I believe (March ’24) Polish intelligence will play a decisive role in this situation. I even offered my services as a mediator, but to no avail. Therefore, Poles persistently stand behind the usual stereotype about themselves.
I saw a figure that said Poles make up the largest number of KIAs in Ukraine with ~20k. Imagine, fighting for GloboShlomo which has future plans to make Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, et al., as “European” (multicultural) as Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Perhaps more tragically, can you imagine being some Pole dying in Ukraine for the CIA and GloboShlomo and heading into eternity and clinging to a Saint Faustino prayer card as you just murdered for the Antichrist??
Polish ‘Right’ nationalism always craves imperialism. And history says very ugly that OPloes creating an empire live nothing Bert than making Jews central to that empire’s money policies, including tax collecting.
Poles are only slightly more trustworthy than Saxons. Saxons are, however, considerably more devious than Poles, except when Poles are dreaming about conquering Russia and making Russians their serfs.
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Poles have never been anything other than useful idiots for one or another larger/stronger/smarter power.
After the Soviets executed all the Polish “elite” (such as it was) the remainder, after 1990, adopted Reaganism/Neoconism as their new ideology. To understand Poland today, just imagine an alternate timeline in which Reagan is in charge (sort of like Watchmen)
“Poland” has only ever existed to be some kind of disputed territory to serve as a spark for another pointless war. The “Poland” they cobbled together from pieces ripped from real countries after WWI was created solely to start a war btw Germany and Russia.
The fact that Königsberg, the home of the immortal genius Immanuel Kant, is part of “Poland” today is an obscenity, worse than Palestine. If Putin can wrest it from their sausage fingers he will be a true Hero and the whole war will have been worthwhile.
Poland is one of the biggest US and EU vassal state in Europe. Poland is the vilest lackey of the US deep state and populated with Russia haters and warmongers.
The previous regime was the most fascist state in Europe during the coivd fake pandemic forcing people to wear face diapers even outside. These clowns have been replaced by the EU plant Donald Tusk who hjas been tasked to transform Poland into some kind of Germany or France (that is population replacement).
The “president” who has zero power in Poland has won with something like 50,3%, barely a victory.
What will happen is that he will be even more pushing for a war with Russia, taking more orders from his EU/US masters and transiting more weapons to Ukraine.
As for Romania, it was two coup, one with Georgescu and the other with Simeon. There is a name for that it’s totalitarianism.
Macron and Moldava of course are behind this since Macron has never been elected, both 2917 and 2022 elections were rigged to install him in power and last Moldavan mock elections were rigged too.
For information, in 2022, Marine Lepen won on the second round but Macron’s regime rigged the counting, Macron didn;t even make it to the second round, it was Lepen and her nemesis from the far left Melenchon, but again, Macron’s regime rigged the vote.
The last German elections were also rigged and it is well know, German living abroad weren’t allowed to vote or their votes weren’t counted. The Blacrock agent who was selected, Merz, got only a small percentage of the votes to reconduct the same colaition and same regime as before.
The truth is: nothing happened in Poland or it doesn’t even worth the words we waste on it.
The change will come from the street, not from the rotten head.
If he shuns Gregorsz Braun, he’s just another EU likud whore.
Poland will be a major pawn in bringing about a nuclear apocalypse. The most accurate role of a ‘dumb Polack’ was Rob Reiner as ‘Michael Stivic’. I cannot stand Polish women. They tend to be doughy in body and obnoxious in mind.
The site of Koenigsburg is in the Russian occupied “Kaliningrad” enclave.
The site of Danzig is in Poland though.
Uhm do they, really..
You know what, leave them to us
Your name should be ‘Lackadaisical Reading Comprehension‘ Your ‘high white IQ’ clearly is limited to processing textual statements only literally not figuratively.
You know what, leave them to us
Since I was actually talking about adult polish women, hell with you, I had better dumb this down, older adult polish women…………..
You and yours are more than welcome to ‘Polack Pedophile Chow’. ‘Eat up’ though, as you may be on the menu once INTERPOL arrests and rooms your ass with a scarred 800lb eurotrash serial rapist named Klaus.
Radwanska born 1990, the photo is from 2009.
She’s about at her peak, look at the crow’s feet already forming at her eyes, it’s going to be a downward slope for her from that point onward to the present.
But indeed her looks here are impressive, peak Polish is peak Caucasian
Thank you for an excellent comment on this naive, to put it mindly, piece of work.
“Poles have never been anything other than useful idiots for one or another larger/stronger/smarter power.”
Thank you, Mr James!
The author forgets that Poland and the Baltic dwarfs since 2004 have been receiving subsidies paid by the EU amounting to 3-5% of their Gnps. Those giant subsidies are financed from the contributions of Germany, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, etc.
Unfortunately, I have to very strongly disagree: there is no “Rise of the Polish Right”. This is all wishful thinking. There are many reasons and one could write a long essay about why this claim is false or misleading. But sometimes numbers tell the story much more succinctly.
Below are the results of the 2nd round of last 5 presidential elections in Poland since 2005, on the left is the result of the proverbial “left”, on the right is the result of the “right” (only valid votes):
2005: 45.96% vs 54.04%
2010: 53.01% vs 46.99%
2015: 48.45% vs 51.55%
2020: 48.97% vs. 51.03%
2025: 49.11% vs. 50.89%
The trend is clear and it is certainly not rising.
(Those who know a little about Polish recent history will understand the anomaly of 2010.)
For example the 0.14% decline in the votes for the right candidate (pun intended) between 2020 and 2025 amounts to circa 40k of eligible voters (essentially adults) and 25k of actual votes. At the same time there were circa 50k new Polish citizenships awarded from 2020 to 2024. Nearly all to former inhabitants of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. If they vote (and many of them do), they vote against anybody who is considered to be a Polish nationalist.
Sorry.
That’s only a small part of the big picture. Professors Krysiak and Grosse analyzed the whole problem much more carefully and their rough estimate is that since 2004 Poland lost more than 120B EUR on financial transfers with EU.
LOL, and LOL again
From the EU Commission:
From 2004 to 2024, the European Union’s budget saw a clear division between net contributors and net recipients. Wealthier Western and Northern European nations generally contributed more than they received (net contributors), while Central and Eastern European countries, along with some Southern European nations, typically received more than they contributed (net recipients).
Net Contributors:
Predominantly wealthier nations like Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Austria were key net contributors.
Net Recipients:
• Central and Eastern European countries, such as Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania, were major net recipients.
• Southern European nations like Greece, Spain, and Portugal also received substantial net transfers.
• Cohesion countries, which are regions with lower GDP per capita, generally benefit from increased funding through the EU budget.
Graph and charts available on Google are even clearer. Poland and the baltic dwarfs have received the most. LOL again
Well, you definitely demonstrated the inability to read short texts even with a semblance of understanding.
I clearly wrote that Krysiak and Grosse analyzed all financial transfers. Not merely subsidies, but dividends, taxes, personal transfers, investments, etc etc.
So it doesn’t matter how many times you repeat yourself and write about subsidies.
Go home, learn to read properly, and then do your homework.
“Anything other but blah blah blah”
“After the Soviets blah blah blah”
“Ripped from real countries blah blah blah”
“Mortal faggot Immobile Cunt blah blah blah”
You’re a pathetic little loser dickhead hahahahahaha
Globoshlomo, globoshlomo, globoshlomo, globoshlomo, your mama, your mama, your mama
Just because you’re a pathetic loser, doesn’t mean others are. Do you prefer dying for pathetic, boring, backward Russia? Good luck loser.
“Dwarfs have been receiving giant subsidies blah blah blah”
STFU Hans. Following your logic we can also say Germany received giant subsidies from USA after WW2 and should now be grateful to Americans for the rest of history. Forever.
The subsidies for Poland have amounted to 8-9 billion euro a year since 2004. That’s 5% of our annual state budget, not our gdp. It’s even less if compared to gdp. This money makes almost no difference whatsoever. We could easily go without it. Some of that money are loans. But with Poland’s access to the EU Germany gained an enormous market for their cars, etc. And buffer against Russia. When red army reached Germany the red comrades “made love” to 17 million German women. Not a very well known fact in Germany. Imagine how many “Germans” came to this world after that. Nobody wants Russia close to their borders, just look at the footage of russians from far-east how they fight and behave in Ukraine. You don’t want them close to you for sure.
Now. Without European single market and American subsidies Germany would be bankrupt dwarf, unable to compete against China, USA, India, etc. Even today Germany is a dwarf compared to powers such as USA and China. Don’t be so arrogant Hans. Germany is irrelevant, just like the rest of Europe.
F**k man. Germany didn’t even exist before 19th century. It’s a pretty new construct historically speaking. Before Russia there was Rus / Kievan Rus. You must have had very bad grades at school. Real countries. LOL. Loser. Russia been wrestling with Ukraine for 3 years and losing. Pathetic loser. Max Pootine can wrestle is a carrot from his donkey’s mouth. LOL.
Since 2004, all Eastern Europe has been heavily subsidized by Western Europe. The dimension goes beyond the same Marshall Plan. It is a fact and it is one of the major mistakes of Western Europe and the imperialist EU Commission, together with the green agenda and the objective of the extension of the EU into the former Soviet Republics, in conflict with Russia.
In 20 years, in spite of the Euro, the EU has lost one third of the economic growth, of gnp , of salaries and purchasing power respect to the US. It is a giant failure, at least for Western Europe.
The “immigration & welfare” model of Western Europe has failed miserably.
Further extension of the EU and/or the rebuilding of Ukraine will cost billions: you Eastern Europeans must be prepared to digest a serious cut on your perennial welfare check from Western Europe. You like it, great, you do not like it, it is the same.
Can you read carefully my dear friend? I told you that these subsidies (loans in fact) are completely irrelevant. It’s 5% of Poland’s annual state budget. Poland’s gdp growth had been the same before we joint the EU and after it. However, our debt skyrocketed since we joint but it’s still under control. Without Eastern European markets, German companies would be complete dwarfs. Western Europe has failed miserably because it lent money to countries like Greece and others who ate, drank, danced and spent, spent, spent, dragging everyone down with them. If you live on credit, you die by credit.