The national inferiority complex is a very, very dangerous thing.

Both for the neighbors and for the country itself, whose inhabitants cannot come to terms with their position in the world.

On the eve of his social networks, a member of the European Parliament from Poland, former head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Radoslaw Sikorski, said that Russia "will get kicked in the balls."

The MEP did not like the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that NATO is a geopolitical project for the development of the territories left after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

There are many ways to lose the fight for dominance.

It is possible, like Sweden, to vegetate on the outskirts of Europe for two centuries after being defeated by Russia, and then make an impressive economic breakthrough, becoming one of the most prosperous states in the world.

Some negative psychological consequences, however, persist: imaginary Russian submarines on their shores appear to the Swedes on a regular basis.

You can lose like Germany: arrange two bloody world wars, kill tens of millions of people and as a result achieve for yourself only the loss of territories and the dismemberment of the country.

And in 60 years to discover that domination in Europe can be achieved absolutely peacefully.

And finally, you can lose like Poland: pitiful, wretched and disgusting for everyone, including a few reasonable representatives of the Polish intelligentsia.

Historically, Poland had no less chances than Russia to unite the Slavic lands, become a superpower and communicate on equal terms with other established states.

But this turned out to be absolutely beyond the power of Poland.

The collapse of the Commonwealth was inevitable.

Historians have been arguing about the reasons for not the first century, but the main ones, I think, are two.

Firstly, unjustified arrogance, unrestrained rudeness and overwhelming self-righteousness of the Poles, which is not the first time that citizen Sikorsky has shown us.

And secondly, the choice of Catholicism as a religion.

Nowadays, narrow-minded people like to be touched by the touching old men of the Pope, but in the Middle Ages and the New Time, the cruelty of the Catholic powers stood out even against the general merciless background.

The most devout Catholics, Spaniards and Poles, were famous for bloody executions and a contemptuous attitude towards those whom they tried to convert to the "true faith" - Indians and Ukrainians.

Russia has become what it has become thanks to Orthodoxy - there is no doubt about that, but this is too broad a topic to discuss it casually.

The collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires and the defeat of Germany in the First World War allowed the Polish state to revive, but the lesson did not benefit the Poles at all: again humiliation and oppression of Ukrainians and cocky behavior towards all neighbors.

The Poles deprived Lithuania of the capital - Vilnius.

The territory was taken away from the Czechs as a result of a conspiracy with Hitler.

But they could not oppose Hitler.

When Soviet troops entered Western Belarus and Western Ukraine 16 days after the start of the German-Polish war, the state of Poland no longer existed.

The restoration of Poland after World War II is only and exclusively the goodwill of Joseph Stalin. If Stalin did not want to, not a single Western power, not to mention the Poles themselves, would have been able to convince him to return Poland's sovereignty and add territories that had belonged to the Germans for centuries.

Alas, the hardest national complexes do not allow the Poles to understand who they really need to be grateful to. And Sikorsky here is a clinically pure manifestation of this diagnosis. He is rude not only to Russia. He is rude to the Americans, thanks to whose favor Poland can afford to pursue a relatively independent policy in the European Union. After all, the author of the phrase “Barack Obama has Polish roots - his grandfather ate a Polish missionary in Africa” is he, Sikorski. And then he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. And nothing worked. And in 2014, Sikorski managed to offend both the Americans and the Poles, saying: “The American-Polish alliance is complete crap. Since we will quarrel with Germany and Russia and we will consider that everything is super, because we are sucking the Americans off. "

Not approving of individual words, I note that, in fact, Sikorsky predicted everything correctly.

This is how the current situation in Europe can be characterized eight years later: Poland selflessly pleases the Americans, and its relations with its neighbors, including Ukraine, which is similarly pleasing to the Americans, are getting worse and worse.

And Sikorsky himself plays an important role in this.

I will note that there are politicians who do not follow the language in many countries.

But in normal, and not notorious states, they are oppositionists and marginalized people, not ministers.

But Sikorsky even served as speaker of parliament for almost a year.

Should Russia somehow seriously react to the threats of the Polish politician?

I guess not.

Trying to offend us, he only demonstrates that Poland is not a subject of international politics, but just a courtyard hooligan, the attitude of all serious people to whom is appropriate - squeamish.

Poland as a state is seriously ill and does nothing to heal.

This means that the next collapse of the Polish statehood is only a matter of time.

And there will be no one to blame Poland for this, as in previous times, except itself.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.