![]() And Poland is compelled to resurrect its older strategy toward Russia and Europe’s East. The geopolitical “sunny weather” is now over, however. But this approach was interrupted by 45 years of “Atrophy” as a Communist puppet state of the Soviet Union and 30 years of post–Cold War “Geopolitical Pause” that was characterized by Poland’s “Strategic Restraint” in its foreign policy toward the East, including importantly toward Belarus. ![]() ![]() ![]() For 500 years, Poland’s grand strategy successfully rested on building various points of leverage with the leaderships and societies in the East-in the so-called Intermarium, between the Baltic and Black seas-in order to prevent these areas from falling under Russian imperial domination and, thus, keep Russia out of Europe’s balance of power system. ![]()
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