#Poland: Strange days for a "partially free" democracy. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
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🗓️ 14 June 2023
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#Poland: Strange days for a "partially free" democracy. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/89911
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I Am the World, I'm John Batchler. |
| 0:08.0 | Poland, the front line in the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:11.8 | Poland, a country that has grievances that are voiced about Warsaw's abuse, Poland's |
| 0:19.5 | abuse by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. |
| 0:24.0 | Poland's scene has the critical factor in transferring weapon systems and training into |
| 0:30.1 | Ukraine. |
| 0:31.7 | And Poland also absorbing untold hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions by now, of |
| 0:38.4 | Ukrainians who have fled and live in exile waiting for the end of the war. |
| 0:43.1 | Now the war is upon us. |
| 0:45.0 | The Kiev abundance are telling me not to call it a counteroffensive, it's an offensive |
| 0:50.8 | to drive the Russian Federation out of Ukraine at the same time Poland cheers along. |
| 0:57.7 | And I see in Russian TV, I don't watch it that much, but in translation I watched a video |
| 1:02.8 | the other day, a group of men with what should have to say high and tight haircuts looking |
| 1:08.4 | very military, though they were dressed in civilian, were routinely making threats against |
| 1:13.1 | Poland, including intimating nuclear weapons will be used if the Poles give us an excuse, |
| 1:18.8 | it was very odd. |
| 1:19.8 | So Poland, what is it? |
| 1:22.6 | There is the in control, the law and justice party and I welcome Judy Demsi, the editor in |
| 1:29.1 | Tiefest Strategic Europe. |
| 1:31.2 | It is a website I urge you all to follow because it's the story of our colleagues and friends |
| 1:36.1 | that allies in Europe, both the EU and NATO. |
| 1:40.2 | And in Judy's presentation right now, we have a different Poland than the one that is |
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