kravietz, 
Complex history of #Polish and #Ukraine relations. First iteration:
- 1600 Polish magnates “protect legitimate business” in Ukraine, turn locals to serfs
- 1648 Ukraine’s Khmelnytski uprising against Poles
- 1654 Khmelnytski signs protection agreement with Russia, Polish-Russian war
- 1667 Polish-Russian ceasefire, Ukraine divided between both
- 1791 Polish Constitution of 3 May
- 1792 Polish magnates announce confederation, turn to Russia for protection from Constitution
- 1793 Russia screws confederates and takes everything
Outcome: Neither Poland nor Ukraine exist as sovereign states.
Second iteration:
- 1917 Ukrainian declare Ukrainian People’s Republic (Petlyura)
- 1918 Poland declares independence
- 1918 Ukrainians in Poland declare West Ukrainian People’s Republic
- 1918-1919 WUPR fights with Poles, UPR fights with Bolshevik
- 1918 Poland wins in WUPR, interns 100’000 Ukrainians
- 1920 Poland agreement with UPR (Petlyura), helps kick Bolshevik out of Kyiv
- 1920 Bolshevik invade Poland
- 1921 Poland signs ceasefire with USSR, dumping Petlyura and UPR
- 1923 West recognizes Polish independence with Ukraine’s autonomy within Poland, Poland doesn’t
- 1924 Grabski law suppressing teaching in Ukrainian language in Poland
- 1919-1938 takeover of Orthodox churches in Poland by Roman-Catholic church, forced polonization
- 1929 creation of OUN, actions against Polish administration
- 1930 Polish pacification of Eastern Galicia in response to OUN, repressions, buildup of Ukrainian nationalism
- 1939 Russia and Germany come and screw everyone
Outcome: neither Poland nor Ukraine exist as sovereign states.
Third iteration:
And the third, current iteration:
- 2022.02 Russia full-scale invasion on Ukraine
- 2022 EU opens Solidarity Corridors for export of grain and transit of goods between EU and Ukraine
- 2022-2024 mass-scale humanitarian and military support from Poland to Ukraine
- 2022 Russia continues food exports to EU
- 2022-2023.03 Ukrainian grain exporters dumping through half-legal exports to EU
- 2022-2023.05 Ukrainian truckers abuse access to EU market for intra-EU deliveries
- 2023.05 Polish truckers and farmers protests start
- 2023.03-11 Ukraine gov ignores them because “legitimate business interests”
- 2023.10 Ukraine reopens Black Sea exports route
- 2023-2024 Russia continues to dump grain prices globally, also thanks to stolen Ukrainian grain, EU continues imports from Russia and Ukraine
- 2023.11 truckers protest turns into blockade, Ukraine gov notices blockades, “but why?”
- 2024.01 grain prices continue to drop as EU continues imports from Ukraine and Russia
- 2024.02 farmers border blockade in Poland
- 2024.02 Russia notices and expands PSYOPS on mass scale
- 2024.02 Ukrainians and Poles shout at each other and indulge tribal divisions
- 2024.02 Russia continues exports to EU
Well, good luck if we haven’t learned anything from the past 🤷
