Sovereignty or Submission? Poland’s Battle Against the Eurocrats is Everyone’s Battle. By Roger Kimball at American Greatness.
[Following] the attempted coup d’état in Poland Friday night, … who governs? The people or the unelected bureaucrats? It is one of the central political questions of our times, as applicable to Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America as it is to the United States.
Increasingly, it seems, the answer is “the bureaucrats.” Just a week ago, Brazil went through an extremely dodgy election in which a last-minute, illegal extension of voting yielded the Communist Lula da Silva a victory over Flávio Bolsonaro. The EU was pleased by, and perhaps contributed to, the outcome. Or consider what happened in Hungary. In May, Péter Magyar defeated Viktor Orbán. Magyar moved quickly to ban his opponents from ever running again and even started legal proceedings against some. In Germany, the AfD is wildly popular with the people, but not with the ruling party or the commissars in the EU. Hence, it is subject to unending harassment and may be banned altogether. In France, Marine Le Pen was put under house arrest and required to wear an electronic ankle monitor. In Romania, when the “wrong” candidate ran, the election was cancelled, and the winner was banned from running. This is what Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU, means by “democracy”: submission to the diktats of the European Union.
In Poland, the usual mold may be being broken. As I write, we are still in a fog-of-war situation. Many things have been tossed up into the air. It is not entirely clear where they all will land. …
What happened:
The prime minister since 2023 has been Donald Tusk, an EU poodle and liberal authoritarian. The president since 2025 is Karol Nawrocki, an anti-EU, Poland-first populist who wants Poland to keep its own currency, have control of its borders, and sharply limit immigration.
Here’s what happened. On Friday night, Nawrocki departed on an official trip to Senegal. His plane was over Spain when he received word that Tusk had unilaterally suspended some duly appointed judges and other officials, elevated a judge loyal to him to the chief spot, and called in riot police to surround Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. …
What is happening right now with the Constitutional Tribunal is that [Tusk and the globalists] want to take it over and fill it with their own people.
Why? Because they want to get rid of the Polish currency, bring us into the eurozone, and eliminate our secure borders. They are being pushed by the Germans, who want to spread the burden of illegal migration and send migrants to Poland.
First of all, the Polish złoty is our constitutionally protected currency. They have to change the Constitution to replace it, and without the Constitutional Tribunal, they cannot do that.
So, number one, they want to get rid of our currency and force us to adopt the euro and join the eurozone. Then they want to take our gold reserves, the largest in the European Union, to Frankfurt, to the European Central Bank, which is a German-based institution.
They also want to open our borders. And they want to make sure that when they lose the next elections, which are coming next year, the Constitutional Tribunal will be unable to do anything to stop their actions or reverse what they have done.
Why now? Brivael Le Pogam:
Because the globalist project is losing its grip.
They lost the media war: people get their information elsewhere, compare, verify, and no longer trust the official line. They lost the trust of the people. And the countries that are bouncing back, the ones finding their energy, their birth rates, their pride again, are precisely the ones that understood that the Brussels machine, as it runs today, is not the cure but the disease. Poles elected Nawrocki against the system’s candidate. The message was clear.
When a system loses trust, it has two options: reform or harden. They chose. All-in. …
The official story is “we are restoring the rule of law.” It’s always the official story. Nobody has ever dismantled a democracy while announcing they were dismantling a democracy.
In Poland it’s about Polish sovereignty and Polish submission to the globalist agenda of the EU. But the same battle is being played out everywhere:
The countries already taken back:
🇺🇸 United States: Trump
🇦🇷 Argentina: Milei
🇸🇻 El Salvador: Bukele
🇨🇴 Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella, elected in June
🇨🇱 Chile: Kast, in power since March
🇵🇪 Peru: Keiko Fujimori, elected in June
🇪🇨 Ecuador: Noboa
🇧🇴 Bolivia: Rodrigo Paz, after nearly 20 years of MAS
🇭🇳 Honduras: Asfura
🇵🇾 Paraguay: Peña
🇮🇹 Italy: Meloni
🇨🇿 Czech Republic: Babiš
🇸🇰 Slovakia: Fico
🇵🇱 Poland: Nawrocki in the presidencyThe countries in the midst of flipping:
🇫🇷 France: RN is polling between 31 and 37% in the first round.
🇩🇪 Germany: AfD scored 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt in September, against 17.2% for the CDU.
Let’s be clear-eyed: they’re still winning some battles. Orbán fell in Hungary in April. Lula took back Brazil a week ago. The system knows how to defend itself. But we need to look at the underlying trend, not the latest match.
Politics has gone fully international. There are the same two sides everywhere now, and everyone knows it. Globalists versus nationalists. Post-modern left and Islam versus everyone else.