How time changes, while some things remain the same
Yesterday Poles and Slavs, in many sectors, were referred to as non-European. It was propaganda to induce belief that they were not part of the Euro neighborhood, not members of the Euro family.
Other than the Mts., in the south, Poland has been a gateway for those in the West seeking to go east and take Moscow. The Russians saw it as a great tank path for going West. During WWII Poland was one big battle ground.
Today the EU wants it as a consumer dumping ground. Washington sees it as a meat grinder, under the preposterous assertion that Moscow might decide to go into a metastasizing Muslim West.
Today articles, in just about all languages, indicate that the element that has been thrown out of every European country and (2) has caused countries to engage in war, sees Poland as a stepping stone. A stepping stone to go from extortion of Berlin and the Swiss. They see Poland having potentially new fields for continuing an age-old kultura of manipulations to securing narcissistic plastic / gold. Some say that this trait has generally been successful due to bribing and being in bed with the elite. The stories are far-ranging. They even go to absurd reasons why Rothschild, owning half the wealth of France, was not hung. According to most innuendoes it was due to his expert knowledge of bribing those controlling the political climate.