Traumatized veterans, many of whom are ultra-nationalists, might also try to lead another Ukrainian insurgency in Poland aimed at severing the southeastern part of the country.
Rzeczpospolita recently reported that “When the war ends, Poland will be flooded with weapons from Ukraine. The police are already preparing for this.” To that end, “equipment for detecting phone traffic, tracking and surveillance in various ranges, both electronic and optical, as well as using unmanned aerial vehicles” will be used as will vehicle x-ray scanners. The police will cooperate with the Border Guard and, for what it’s worth, Ukraine too. It goes without saying, however, that they’ll spy on Ukraine as well.
Codenamed “Project Trident”, this newfound national security effort demonstrates that Poland is finally waking up to Ukrainian-emanating unconventional security threats, which comes 15 months after former President Andrzej Duda warned that traumatized veterans could lead a continental crime wave. Rzeczpospolita didn’t mention it in their report, and perhaps some authorities are still unaware of this complementary threat, but these same veterans could lead another Ukrainian insurgency in Poland.
For background, the first Ukrainian insurgency was “Khmelnitsky’s Uprising” in the mid-17th century, and then there was the “koliszczyzna” a century later. Both resulted in the large-scale massacre, arguably a genocide, of Poles (and Jews too). Then there was the Polish-Ukrainian War right after World War I, the 1930s Ukrainian insurgency, the separate one that paralleled the Nazi invasion, the World War II-era Volhynia Genocide, and finally the post-war Ukrainian insurgency that prompted “Operation Vistula”.
Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, which count many veterans among them, believe that southeastern Poland is occupied Ukrainian land. The current leader of the “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists” (OUN) that was responsible for the Volhynia Genocide implicitly threatened Poland on this basis as was explained here in fall 2024. The summer prior, Zelensky’s top advisor Mikhail Podolyak ominously predicted a post-conflict competition with Poland, and it’s possible that traumatized veterans could play a role therein. (more...)
“Project Trident” Aims To Thwart A Post-Conflict Ukrainian Crime Wave In Poland
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