WARSAW — There is a growing belief that Poland will soon have Europe’s strongest army. Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has not missed any opportunity to drum this message home, and one increasingly hears it being echoed abroad, too.

 WARSAW — A new, unprecedented grain crisis is upon us. It will have far-reaching consequences for Ukraine, the European Union, Africa, and possibly many other parts of the world.

WARSAW — Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has now taken another step toward full-scale autocracy.

WARSAW — On December 16, 2022, a Russian KH-55 missile flew halfway across Poland before landing 12 kilometres outside Bydgoszcz, a city of over 300,000 people that is host to five NATO units and the Joint Forces Training Centre.

WARSAW — Some Poles felt slighted when they learned that US President Joe Biden had stopped in Kyiv before making his appearance in Warsaw, suspecting that his planned trip to Poland was just a cover for his surprise visit to Ukraine. Such feelings are uncalled for.

WARSAW — Next door to Ukraine, where people are being killed every day for wanting to join the European Union, Polish leaders are waging what they have called a war on two fronts, against both Russia and the EU.

WARSAW  —  Poland is home to about 2.7 million refugees from Ukraine: 1.2 million arrived after 2014, and a further 1.5 million arrived following Russia’s invasion on February 24.

WARSAW — The rocket strike that killed two Poles near their country’s border with Ukraine on November 15 proved to be a test not so much of defence policy as of the information policy of Poland, Ukraine and NATO. Only the Americans passed.

WARSAW  —  Immediately after World War II, the Paris-exiled Polish intellectual Jerzy Giedroyc (of Lithuanian origins, born in Minsk) coined a phrase that would come to define Poland’s foreign policy toward its eastern neighbours: “There will be no independent Poland wi