From my perspective as a Pole: If we are attacked, we will defend ourselves. What's more - if our friends from the Baltic countries are attacked, we will defend them. Not because we are so "great", because we have no other choice if we want to exist
@mickpeterson3722
5 ай бұрын
spieprzaj. wsperiamy Rosję
@nlisibokanindlovu2134
5 ай бұрын
Am a foreigner from Zimbabwe, but I feel deeply disconnected from it, for some reason, I always thought that if Poland would be in war for whatever reason I would be the first to be drafted in the armed forces. I know it sounds crazy but maybe I fight for something and live to look back on it, I might finally have a sense of belonging
@avamarie7191
5 ай бұрын
If you live in Poland, love the country, you are Polish❤
@GrubyTolek
4 ай бұрын
I hope you don't have to do it but that's pretty awesome and it should serve as an example to others
@WoTBlitzAddict
5 ай бұрын
I can just tell you how I see Polish patriotism as a Pole, and I think it's hard to understand for people who didn't grow up in Poland. Polish people are patriots but not nationalist, at least not in wrong way, of course there are hard nationalists like in every country but they are in a marginal minority. It's hard for me to say that in words, but I think closest to what I want to say would be that Poles have Poland in Heart and treat their country as a mother, they will always protect her cause it's the only one that person can have in his life time. We see Poland not by current politicians, governments or current movements but as greater good that can't be spoiled cause we lost it many times even though we fought for it with our hearts, minds and spirit.
@peter_g546
5 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with nationalism. Nationalism is a stronger version of patriotism.
@WoTBlitzAddict
5 ай бұрын
@@peter_g546 Well, sometimes nationalisms can lead to total discrimination of other nationalities that's why I'm not treating both same way.
@peter_g546
5 ай бұрын
@@WoTBlitzAddict that's German nationalism not Polish
@WoTBlitzAddict
5 ай бұрын
@@peter_g546 if you still don't get my point I think you would never get it, so it's worthless to explain any further.
@avamarie7191
5 ай бұрын
@@WoTBlitzAddictPatriotism have nothing to do with nationalism or discrimination of others. We are patriots because we love Poland . It's our home. We love our country, our culture, history, tradition..We are proud of our country not because we think t's better then others but because it's ours. Just as same as you are proud of your family and your house. We will stand and defend our country just as same as you would defend your family and home. There is no national supremacy in Polish patriotism.
@jarekpoleca
5 ай бұрын
Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski 😊 co by się działo Ja w Polsce zostaję. Jestem polskim patriotą.
@wojstube9359
5 ай бұрын
Ja tak samo. Mam tu rodzinę, swój język, mieszkania (na kredyt). Jestem u siebie i jest o co walczyć. Na pewno bym się przydał 💪
@krzycho751
5 ай бұрын
"I don't believe in war," you said, and I agree. Does anyone, aside from some "Putins," really believe in it? While I don't feel a patriotic fervor, defending the place of my birth and where my grandparents are buried feels important. Knowing the history and recent events, you'd understand why stopping such threats is crucial. Without any enthusiasm, the question remains: Do you believe in defending your family? I have two passports and don't currently live in Poland. Technically, I could say, "not my problem." But everything that shaped me is in Poland, and it's worth defending.
@mateusz.w.nawrocki
5 ай бұрын
So the choice You are facing is beat Putin or eat poutine. What makes us Polish is that we fight for our freedom. The comparison with Quebec is on point. It's like asking a Jew "will You stick to Your religion/tradition in face of persecution?". This is what makes one Jewish. You Canadians simply never had to experience brutal foreign aggression and occupation. Good for you. Less lucky nations really have no other choice than to fight or become an ethnically decimated minority on their own ancestral lands (like your indians, man). Fighting a war is not as bad as losing a war. Holocaust would never have happened if Poland won against the Germans in 1939, or had the Allies joined us at that point. More holocausts would happen if Israel did not fight its wars and win. So yeah, happy Passover and pass over the fighting to us.
@pawelzielinski1398
5 ай бұрын
I love Quebec. I go there every winter for a few days for skiing. Quebec City is beautiful in winter. I went to Quebec a couple of weeks ago for the solar eclipse. It was amazing!.
@marcelmarceli8238
5 ай бұрын
This may sound strange but after watching you on KZitem for some time. You're the first Jew I really like and can understand. You don't have this look down on others. You are a different Jew than Israeli politicians and some writers and publicists. You are a real human being, and not many people can do that. You are one of those who enriches Poland and not only lives here.
@solaris2015
5 ай бұрын
because he is Polish, not born in USA like the others, or send for Mission from other country.
@andrzejrozmus3919
5 ай бұрын
Yes I will.
@adi5950
5 ай бұрын
We will wait and defend homeland, as our history shows - we are a nation of warriors . Pozdrawiam 🇵🇱
@annagardiner3292
5 ай бұрын
Cudowna odpowiedz! , Dziekuje za Twoja szczerosc!
@PannaJoanna99
2 ай бұрын
Greetings from Poland 🇵🇱❤
@wojstube9359
5 ай бұрын
Dzięki za szczerość, Michael. Mam nadzieję, że nie będzie trzeba walczyć, tylko budować pluralizm, gospodarkę i pielęgnować kulturę i sztukę. Pozdrawiam 🙌
@ZemplinTemplar
4 ай бұрын
Cítim to rovnako. I feel the same. :-)
@andrzejpienczykowski9086
5 ай бұрын
I don't think it is possible to answer this question just theorizing. It is like trying to say if you'd shoot someone in defense of your own or family life. You truly will know the answer when you are faced with a real situation. I will venture to say that a lot of people would do the opposite of what they think they would do theoretically.
@maganzo
5 ай бұрын
if you know yourself, you can say more or less how you'll behave
@5fr4ewq
5 ай бұрын
@@maganzo That's not how life works.
@BarbaraBarbara81010
5 ай бұрын
Pozdrawiam Panie Rubenfeld. Z żydostwem jestem jakoś związana od dziecka, zaglądam więc tu z jakiegoś przymusu chyba :) Do Kanady większość z Polski wyjechała nie z powodu ekstremizmu lecz ze względów materialnych, rozumiesz, za wygodniejszym życiem ...u nas było ciężko. Mogą ci ludzie opowiadać , że uciekali przed prześladowaniem ale w większości to kłamstwa będą.. Kanada, uhh Kanada, obecni tam wszyscy są najeźdźcami...więc jaki tam patriotyzm?...jedynie materialny. Może przez wieki coś takiego jak patriotyzm się ukształtuje ale muszą być spełnione warunki, tak jak przy treningu ciała ...musisz odpowiednie partie porządnie ruszyć, ćwiczyć żeby ten mięsień powstał i był mocny. Mięsień patriotyzmu u Kanadyjczyków nie jest widoczny a może i nie istnieje ? Jakiś atak na Kanadę rozbudzi może patriotyzm . Ale o patriotyzmie to sobie porozmawiać można a wszystko okazuje się kiedy trzeba działać. Teraz też nie walczyłabym za sąsiada tym bardziej za Izrael czy Ukrainę , Stany...ale za rodzinę owszem. Za rodzinę ...zagryzę ostatnim zębem :)
@leii1306
5 ай бұрын
It will be a long comment :) I think that in the US they have a strange view of patriotism and I think Canada has adopted it. I (and I want to believe that more Poles) see patriotism differently and it does not necessarily have to do with nationalism. I have left-wing views and I would fight for Poland (if they wanted me, because I am an almost 40-year-old woman, but I have a degree and work in IT, so maybe I would be useful). For me, patriotism is the same feeling, only extended, that you feel towards your home. You take care of your home, you try to keep it clean and nice, you try to keep the yard neat. And if someone came to your home or even yard and started destroying it, you would probably try to stop them? It's the same when it comes to the country. For me, patriotism is not littering on the street, it is taking care of a bench in the park, taking part in some actions to help those in need, and, if necessary, defending your country. What does this have to do with nationalism? I think this is how it is with Ukrainians. Do you think that all those who are fighting are nationalists? Certainly not. They fight because they know that behind their back are their towns and villages, their homes and their families. You say you don't believe in war. Me too. But unfortunately there are those who believe and you probably know who I mean.
@TrustyEngineer
5 ай бұрын
Québécoises were subjected to forced anglicisation - they were mocked and treated as second-grade citizens of Canada by British and later by government (exactly like Irish by British and Poles by Prussians, Austrians and Russians) - thus why they fight and this is why I admire them. 😏
@MultiPropanbutan
5 ай бұрын
I have been living outside of Poland for almost half of my life at this point (I will be 39 this year), but if there would be a war I would hand my resignation letter on the following day say goodbye to my friends and partner, take plane to the country bordering Poland in order to cross by land to Poland and would sign up to the defence forces. I have also family in Canada since beginning 1900 … the time Poland was still not on the map and the last members moved to Canada in early 1990s … I do like to visit it but to be honest Canadians have no „guts” (I am not saying it to offend you). Canada feels to me like taking immigrants and not trying hard enough to create real bond with the country. … but maybe it is just me as I come from a family with harsh experiences… some members of my family died in WWII or got killed later in early years of communist Poland. Then until 92 or 93 (forgot at this point) I was living in a close proximity to soviet military base and I still have pictures of soviet soldiers walking through my little village. My grandfather returned from deportation to nothing and had to rebuild house and start from 0 without a single $ and without a father as he died in first days of the war … at least he died due to bomb explosion and not in a chamber or being tortured to death. Then she lost her husband in dark times of 1950s … apparently one morning he has been found dead on the riverbank of small river in Tarnow … my father was just 1 year old … then she has never got married again. My parents were working hard to make my childhood as normal as possible. Having all these stories, memories and experiences passed down on me I know that if the time comes I would be ready to repay my country and my ancestors with the most precious thing person can offer… with my life. I do know also there is quite few people like that out there in Poland … and often … certainly that is the case for me we don’t support far right parties like Law and Justice you mentioned in a video … not to mention fascism formation like Confederation. At the same time I would never vote for someone like Justin Trudeau :)
@DogDogGodFog
5 ай бұрын
I'm from Tarnow. Do you mean the Dunajec river?
@avamarie7191
5 ай бұрын
Konfederacja I faszyzm? O czym ty w ogole mowisz? Od Trudeau ci udzielilo nazywanie wszystkich, ktorzy maja inna opinie niz far left to faszysci? Dbanie o dobro I interesy wlasnego kraju to faszyzm?
@avamarie7191
5 ай бұрын
Hey, I live in Canada for many years. I grew up in Poland. Poland is my homland and always will be. I am Poland and Poland is me. I am who I am because of Poland. I am so anti war but if Poland will ever be attacked , I would go back and fight. Not that I would be happy about it but I couldn't be somewhere else in such situation. Poland is worthed to fight for and even die for if necessary.
@mickpeterson3722
5 ай бұрын
and fight for blackrock?
@comdo831
5 ай бұрын
I would argue in this day and age most people would run away from the front in case of a conflict. People have become too accustomed to comfort. Life in the trenches is hard. There are plenty verbal patriots, that's easy. In Ukraine overwhelming majority wants to fight until victory, but only about 25% are prepared to go if called up for combat duty.
@gosias751
5 ай бұрын
There is nothing agressive about defending your country.
@tomaszgarbino2774
5 ай бұрын
I think that Catalonia is a better euro-metaphor of Québec than Brexit.
@MrSankullo
5 ай бұрын
9:57 let me assure you that it would be much easier to defend your family together with 100 thousand other guys also defending their families than on your own. If you didn’t fight, some day a squad of (for example) Russian soldiers would come over to your house to take your children …and there is you defending your family by yourself with a tire iron in hand. There is a strength in numbers so if you feel that you would defend your family then it’s better to do it in a large group a.k.a. the army.
@peter_g546
5 ай бұрын
Will you FIGHT for POLAND in WAR?! Good question. It depends what kind of war. If someone tried to destroy Poland as a nation and turn Poles into slave work force - like it happened during WW2 - then I would fight. If NATO started war with Russia to defend Ukraine then I wouldn't fight in such a war.
@mickpeterson3722
5 ай бұрын
exactly
@bartosznaswiecie1179
5 ай бұрын
9:50 War believes in you though and even if you dont plan to fight for the country( which neither do I, and I was born here) be prepared for it, because its unavoidable part of human experience
@frusia123
4 ай бұрын
With regards to fighting for a country, I understand what you're saying and I was like that for most of my life. I still am to a degree, because I would not fight for an ideology of a country. If Poland, God forbid, was ever taken over by Konfederacja and they went to war with the EU for example, I would fight with the EU against Konfederacja. But I would not feel that I'm fighting against Poland. I would fight for what's right, and against an ideology of hate, even if that ideology spoke the Polish language. Having said that, when the war in Ukraine happened, I experienced a realisation. I realised that there are situations when someone might be coming for everything I love. To take away the safety and the future of everyone I love. To destroy the places I grew up in. Then it's not a question of patriotism anymore, I think there is that point when you know you want to defend that "everything" with everything you have. That you want to fight the destroyer, whatever it takes, that it's a matter of your human dignity. It's hard to explain, but it's not about patriotism or nationalism. It might be that patriotism is born in experiences like that, but the fighting doesn't come from patriotism, it's deeper than that.
@gosias751
5 ай бұрын
Wow .i hope polish men think otherwhise .
@mayaniebieska8425
5 ай бұрын
Yes I would. I was a pacifist all my life but now everything is changed. War is not an abstract anymore, we don't have that luxury anymore. So if someone came and said you're not a real country, your tribe, your family, your home have no right to exist, yes, I would fight. And if course some of us still have parents and grandparents who live with ww2 trauma, so it's in our dna. Ps. Remember in '22 there was a story of a British and a Moroccan man caught and prosecuted by the Russians, as 'foreign mercenaries' as they called them. These men lived there and loved their adopted country and they fought for Ukraine as it was their own. It's rarely just political, or even rational. Mostly it's emotional and it's about love
@pawelzielinski1398
5 ай бұрын
I thought about that recently for quite some time and I am pretty sure that I would not go to fight to defend Poland. I don't want to become a war hero. I would certainly support my country financially and politically every way I can but will not go back to Poland to take arms and fight Putin's army, I guess. They probably wouldn't accept me in the army anyways,
@evka_esgie
5 ай бұрын
It's a very difficult question, but I think declarations would have little to do with reality. I'm worried about young people, they are not very patriotic. To be more specific they more polarised - either very patriotic even nationalist or completely indifferent. But the real reaction of people is hard to predict. From my perspective I can't say, I'm a woman, I have children that's why I would be concerned about my family's safety first.
@mayaniebieska8425
5 ай бұрын
Patriotism is not the same as nationalism nor should they be equated. Patriotism can be hijacked by nationalisms, yes, have but thats a whole different story. There's nothing wrong with having love for your country
@tomekg6629
5 ай бұрын
Platforma is fascist not conservative.
@pauldoogan903
5 ай бұрын
Ur vids are starting to pop up again. :) I agree with u same in Ireland 🇮🇪 but I do wish our politicians would be more nationalistic and not as pro EU as they are.
@barbarafigua3564
5 ай бұрын
Have you just called will for defending yourself and your home an extremism? Wow
@GrubyTolek
4 ай бұрын
Patriotism is a rational response to your neighbour's nationalism
@ajuc005
5 ай бұрын
Fighting a defensive war for your country isn't extremism. Pacifism and agressive wars are the extremes (and funnily enough both result in world wars and atrocities). Defending yourself is roughly in the middle.
@pawelzielinski1398
5 ай бұрын
No matter how you define that I am not going to do that.
@mickpeterson3722
5 ай бұрын
@@pawelzielinski1398już jesteśmy pod okupacji
@pawelzielinski1398
5 ай бұрын
@@mickpeterson3722 w twoim ograniczonym umyśle. Czy twoi rodzice byli rodzeństwem?
@mickpeterson3722
5 ай бұрын
@@pawelzielinski1398 tylko tyle potrafisz?
@pawelzielinski1398
5 ай бұрын
@@mickpeterson3722 zapewniam cię, że potrafię o wiele więcej. W twoim interesioe byłoby, żebyś się nigdy o tym nie przekonał.
@piotrpiotrowski5868
5 ай бұрын
Starczy tych wojen a tak na marginesie to przydała by się w Polsce coś na wzór Husarii tylko w nowoczesnym wydaniu😊w Husarii też walczyli Żydzi
@5fr4ewq
5 ай бұрын
No I won't and most these people who says they will are just lying.
@avamarie7191
5 ай бұрын
Why do you think everyone who says will fight for Poland is lying? I would. I couldn't stay away and just watch my country being taken over. It depends hw strong you feel towards you country. Fighting for your country , defending your country is just as same as defending family and home.
@5fr4ewq
5 ай бұрын
@@avamarie7191You wouldn't. It's easy to say that, but I bet all my money that you wouldn't.
@PerAsperaAdAstraMS
5 ай бұрын
He is in Poland just to take things not to give anything . Self-centred character . Helping in war effort doesn’t mean that you have fight physically. He would leave Poland first then tell people to stop fighting.hey polish don’t fight let the the invaders to have a good time
@PGN1967
4 ай бұрын
AS I ALWAYS SAY, AS LONG AS EUROPEANS STAND TOGETHER, WE "WIN". Divided We Fall" I will be the first one out there, Pls, no comments about my age. I owe this to my Parents, and those that are no longer with us. Just in case I die, want to be buried upside-down 🙃
@Vincent_Hull
5 ай бұрын
🤍❤️👍
@bonanzaboomer
5 ай бұрын
It really hinges on one’s feelings and attitude towards the Warsaw uprising. kzitem.info/news/bejne/pm-Jl4OFkombfagsi=auk6bdWioXkPqPLw
@gosias751
5 ай бұрын
Canada didnt had wars
@Tomasz-r2t
5 ай бұрын
Poland is very special place for Jews. Do you know the real meaning word Polin?
@frusia123
4 ай бұрын
I'm like that too. I have a problem with patriotism because it's too often misused by nationalists. I effing hate nationalism. When I was at school I was taught that a patriot loves his country but doesn't think it's better than any other country. A nationalist thinks his nationality is better than other nationalities. Like, there's precisely zero logical justification for that way of thinking. It's just a way in which broken people try to repair their self-worth.
@rabbithole8498
5 ай бұрын
Your summarisation of polish political parties and comparing them to western politics is not correct. IMO. Western countries exploit other countries and Poland belong to economically colonized countries and it is beeing exploited. So polite progressive polititian in west is far worse then so called "right wing" polititian in Poland. Western politician is polite because he is just interested in maintaining status quo and polish politician is shouting because he would like to reduce resource drain of his country.
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