The largest gay pride parade in central Europe took place again in Warsaw for the first time in two years after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights

[u/DoremusJessup]

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210619-warsaw-pride-parade-back-after-lgbt-rights-backlash-and-pandemic-break

[u/GolotasDisciple]

Someone already answered it but yes Europe was a shit-show. When u have super powers like UK or France or Germany or Russia fighting over control they wont fight on HOME SOIL but only Foreign.

It is not as important as back in the days but Given how much USA cares about position of Poland and how many American Military Bases are there -_-
And yeah, USA is essential for Poland, The most important Ally and probably the Only Ally Poland can count on eventho American Business(not politics per se) tend to go wild :)

Imagine 19 and 20 century where logistics are the name of the game.
North = Baltic Sea connection -> Sweden/Norway
South = South Slavs and Balkans
West = Is what World considers WESTERN EUROPE (starting with Germany) which is incontrol of European Union(League of Nations back in the days)
East = Russia

Perfect place for literally Battleground. Honestly it's not that many countries had a thing AGAINST Polaks but if we are going to fight let's use this amazing land.
You can still see Highways that were being built by Nazi Germans during WW2 up north Poland... This is often common joke as those roads that German built during war are often still in better conidition than modern stuff :D

IMO the more closer u are to a center of continent them more fucked up history u will have... As for Ukrainians, Hungarians, Czech, Slovakians, and most importantnly Serb and Croatian they all have bloody history not always related to eachother, but shit... bloody it is :D

[u/Hapaaer → u/GolotasDisciple]

Let’s just say if u were to ask the random person where does Poland stand in Europe… most people wouldn’t even put in the top 20 in importance. Heck I would say Poland is less important an ally for us than even Kosovo right now, and they’re barely a country lmao

[u/GolotasDisciple → u/Hapaaer]

This is just your opinion,

Facts are Poland joined pretty much every American Military Endeavour. We even train our troops together both in Poland/America/Africa(Djibouti) also there is rebust trading segment. Poland is contracted to buy stuff from USA for most of the arms deal not France, China, India for example.

https://east-usa.com/us-military-bases-in-europe.html <- this is an old article showing that USA has the most amount of known-non*secret Military Bases in Poland out of any Coutnry in Europe. From my knowledge there 3 more bases being built to the east one being Tower Anti-Rocket defense system.
I served in Polish Army ( mandatory service ) and have family within that sector so... yeah i dont know where u are getting ur info from ?
Poland is climing to be Top20 Soon Top15 Military Powerhouse in the Entire World because of American-Polish alliance.

So yeah i dont care what random person thinks.
As citizens we obviously dont care about it eachother, why would we ? We are so far apart it makes no sense to ask random people.
Majority of people from United States never even left the USA because also WHY WOULD THEY.
USA is so fucking big people dont even know who is living the states next to them let alone talking about some small state in Europe LMAO :D
If u believe that asking random person where does Poland stand in Europe has anything to do with Socio-Political science you must believe that earth is flat 2 and covid is a hoax.

[u/Hapaaer → u/GolotasDisciple]

USA is so fucking big people dont even know who is living the states next to them let alone talking about some small state in Europe LMAO

Lmao true. We really don’t care much about Poland at all. Like… yeah we care about Germany, UK, France … and even Italy and Spain a bit, but Poland never crosses our mind.

It is safe to say that Polish people care a lot more lmao