The worst thing in Ukrainian situation is that it is not as easy as it seems. I doubt that anyone except for the politicians really know what's going on here. Also I don't think that it will be solved anytime soon. Especially if Clinton becomes next US president. 

He'll be replaced by the ruthless dictator, Phartin. Everyone knows Phartin is worse that Putin!

And after all of the Putin and Phartin, the real shit happens. God help us all.

You probably need to read a history book, mate

While *I personally* would indeed do what you say, my compatriots seem to be (and have been historically) nationalist enough to sacrifice their lives to defend this piece of dirt...

Okay... maybe I spoke too soon. I guess it's not about the Polish. Maybe it's because *you* are a bit naive, right?

Poland challenging Russia in the region? Haha.

We want to be leaders of Central Europe - Yeah, good luck. Maybe if Germany and Austria magically disappear tomorrow, you might have a shot.

We need to have an army that even they have to respect - You know they could basically steamroll Europe if they wanted to, right? Your *respectable* army would last a month or two if lucky. 

Not that any of this matters. Why would Russia want Poland? There's nothing to gain from attacking you. Or Latvia, for that matter.

Then Canada will have to find anoter favorite comfort food

And you think you have democracy in poland? These new media laws are heavily cutting freedom of speech.

Most countries sorounding russia have worse human rights records and rule of law than Russia, this includes the baltic countries where like 30% of the population cant vote and have no citizenship.

The only democracies are japan and finland

Whats up with the fear mongering and paranoia? Russia went into georgia because georgia killed its own people the south ossetians. They went into ukraine because crimea is majority russian, and ukraine banned the russian language etc. Poland has no russian population so after your own logic they would stop with poland so why this fear?

Right, we should give citizenship to people who are not loyal to our country, who don't want to learn our language and who celebrate the occupation of our country on 9th of May.

Maybe from your perspective, but from our point of view you guys almost never fight We're joking that you're a unique nation, that makes state-of-the-art weapons, yet has never used any of it On the other hand, that saved you Prague, while Warsaw was obliterated

What I've written is not my naive wishful thinking - it's what the Polish government is doing as we speak. This is happening, google translate this and see for yourself:

Expanding army by 50% (Macierewicz is our Minister of Defence):

https://www.wprost.pl/kraj/10004278/Macierewicz-zapowiada-50-procentowy-wzrost-armii-w-ciagu-najblizszych-lat.html

Civil Guard or Territorial Defence (the article says they plan to form 380 companies, armed with machine guns, granade launchers, anti-aircraft cannons, mobile anti-aircraft rocket launchers, anti-tank rockets and anti-tank granades):

http://www.polska-zbrojna.pl/home/articleshow/18942?t=Obrona-terytorialna-to-nie-bedzie-zabawa-w-sluzbe-wojskowa

Yes, Poland is challenging Russia. We have always been doing that. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost - but we're not affraid to stand up against them. I know on a map it looks ridiculous, but if you realize that most of Russia is baren wasteland and that in Europe there are 80 mil Russians vs 40 mil Poles, this suddenly stops being so ridiculous. V4 Group has 65 mil people and a much more modern economy - why surrender from the start? We see no reason, instead we're trying to use the immigration crysis to help us unite the region (not only V4, but also with Baltics, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, possibly Austria - we'll see how the elections there go ). So far so good, but we know there's a lot to be done and we're working on it, our government makes no secret of it. We're building massive gas hubs, so that we can supply gas from outside of Russia to every country in the region (including Ukraine and Belarus, all the way down to Croatia). We are pushing for the contruction of Via Carpatia - the highway connecting pretty much all of Central Europe, from Bulgaria all the way to the Baltics, this would help our economies to cooperate more. We're doing this shit and nobody is hiding it. We want to reshape the region to make countries cooperate more and to be its leaders, we hope to do what Turkey did in the past years.

@Germany and Austria needing to disappear - Austria is a small country. Rich, but small - no way they could challenge what we're doing, if anything - they may join us if Germany pisses them off even more. And Germany? Leaders of Central Europe? Hahaha! Never. They don't understand the region and most importantly - they care more about Russia than they do about Central Europe. They will sacrifice us all every time, that's the way they are. That's the thing - Poland is the natural leader of Central Europe, cause we share the interests of other countries here. Germany has different interests, often contrary to ours (just watch the news ). Obviously, they are doing what they can to stop Poland from doing what we're doing, but I'm optimistic for now You may be laughing now, but you'll see in a few decades, trust me. We are starting to think big.

@Russian army steamrolling Europe - uhmm... no. Actually, hell no. That's a myth. For one - they wouldn't come close to attacking France or UK, cause it would end up in some serious beating. Just look how they are struggling in Ukraine. Their army isn't what it looks like on paper. Our government has a simple idea - we see what Russians are capable of, we feel no need to attack anyone, but we want to be able to defend ourselves. For now we'd still lose badly, but we're basically starting to turn our country into a military bog - organized in a way that would make it impossible for Russians to advance and cost them dearly to try and operate in our country. That's why we're building the whole Territorial Defence with thousands of people who aren't soldiers, but are trained, equipped and organized. We want to get to the point in which Russians know that it's not worth touching us, I hope we still have enough time.

@Why would they want to attack? - Cause they are Russians and that's what they do. Why did they need Crimea and Eastern Ukraine? Why did they need Georgia? For as long as the history of our countries spans, they have always wanted to conquer us, they invaded us 3 times in the 20th century alone. We're not asking the question "why" anymore, we take it for granted and try to be prepared for the future. Heck, Russian army left Poland in 1992 - that's not ancient history!

Guys, you're overestimating the power of one guy. Putin couldn't do anything if he was totally alone. He's a part of some team. And I sure, that that team has possible scenarios in the case of something bad happens to Putin.

Read Tolstoy. Single person means nothing. Masses and hystory is what decides.

We do, it's still young but it's getting better and better as we're eliminating post-communists from the public sphere.

What's wrong with the media laws? What cutting of the freedom of speech? I have no idea what you're talking about. Trust me, in Germany you can only dream of having freedom of speech as we have it in Poland. The fact that your government was capable of forcing ALL MEDIA to remain silent about Koeln for a week was a shock for us. If it wasn't for Internet, nobody would ever know! That's heavily cut freedom of speech! Believe it or not, but our journalists were shocked by that and all agreed that there's no way any government could do that in Poland. Doesn't matter which party ruled, it would be impossible. When it comes to freedom of speech, countries like Germany or Sweden aren't even close to us and we pity you very much.