Tensions between Ukraine and Poland over grain

 via Stars & Stripes

Last week, Polish and Ukrainian officials clashed openly, after Marcin Przydacz, a foreign policy adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda, said that Ukraine should "start appreciating the role that Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years."

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 "Ukraine really got a lot of support from Poland," Przydacz said in an interview with Polish radio in late July. "What is most important today is defending the interest of the Polish farmer."

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 Nonetheless, popular narratives in Poland and Ukraine still differ greatly about what transpired 80 years ago.

Poles call what happened the "Volyn massacre" and say it was part of a larger effort by Ukrainian forces to ethnically cleanse Poles from the region. Ukrainian nationalists say the events were the result of an ongoing struggle between Poles and Ukrainians at the time.

Duda and Zelensky jointly tweeted they were honoring "all innocent victims" of Volyn. But in a potential reflection of the divide between their countries, Duda wrote in a separate tweet that he had joined Zelensky to "pay tribute to murdered Poles."

The Volyn events are significant to a small but vocal minority of nationalist and far-right groups in Poland. Ukrainian news outlets reported in July that fans at a soccer match in the Polish city of Wroclaw unfurled banners saying "Ukrainians murdered children in Volyn" and "80 years of shameful silence for Volyn."

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So what do we have.

We have domestic issues for Poland.  Economic issues for Ukraine.  A tired Polish populace.  A terrible history with Poland claiming lands in Ukraine.

And an apparently forever war going on right now.

At what point does taking care of Ukrainian interests take a back seat to domestic matters?

I think we'll find out real soon...all over the West. 

Sidenote.  Have you noted that many of Ukraine's biggest supporters are all stating that Ukraine should appreciate what is being done to support them?  Zelensky continues to read the room wrong.  He's still caught up at the beginning of the war.  He doesn't realize that war fever is fading and the whole thing is becoming background noise.