“Is Poland’s defense capability a guarantee of the state’s sovereignty? If so, then the peculiar credit program called SAFE should never be accepted by Poland,” writes Witold Gadowski in Gazeta Polska.
Adopting this program would mean transferring competencies related to Poland’s defense into the hands of the European Union, and in practice, into the hands of Berlin. It hardly needs to be added that this is flagrantly contrary to the provisions of the Polish Constitution.
Contrary to what Donald Tusk proclaims, the SAFE program is essentially a way to channel Polish money into the German arms industry (which today does not produce the most modern military equipment). Unfortunately, a hidden part of this complicated agreement is the transfer of equipment purchased by Poles into the hands of Ukraine. The pressure on Warsaw to adopt SAFE is, in fact, a blunt German attempt to redirect funds that are currently flowing from Poland to South Korea and the United States. In criminal terminology, this could be described as both an attempt at extortion and fraud. How else can one describe a credit program with a variable interest rate that may be arbitrarily changed depending on the political climate? Considering the experience drawn from the practice of allocating funds from the National Recovery Plan (KPO), one must assume that any arms contracts financed through SAFE would pass through ad hoc intermediary companies before eventually reaching the remnants of our domestic arms industry. This creates an opportunity for individuals attached to the current government to enrich themselves, while posing a threat to the entire country by leaving us dominated by a gigantic, politically controllable loan.
SAFE is simply an attempt to impose yet another program on Poland that would allow decisions concerning our country to be made in Berlin. It is a way for Germany to build logistical support for its armed forces on Polish territory. The variable interest rate of this project raises suspicions that it could become a tool used by Berlin to discipline the remnants of Polish defense policy. SAFE is also a cunning way to detach Poland’s defense policy from its practical alliance with the United States. Considering the level of advancement of American technologies and the lag of the German industry in this field, it is clear that SAFE is an attempt to force purchases of equipment that significantly lags behind the latest American achievements in technological terms. SAFE is therefore another step toward implementing the Marxist project once formulated by Altiero Spinelli: the creation of a common European army that would be commanded by Marxist commissars, and today in practice would be commanded by the German officer corps. The adoption of the SAFE program, by means of legislation, would mean that Poland further relinquishes another attribute of sovereignty. It is also a powerful instrument for the financial draining of our country.
If today, President Karol Nawrocki yields to pressure from Tusk and the German agents, then he will, unfortunately, share responsibility for Poland losing a very important sphere of its independence. It will also halt the development of our army and its defense doctrine and cause a regression in what remains of our arms industry. This is an ideological program marked by wishful thinking. Consequently, it will lead to the ideologicalization of defense policy across the entire continent, resulting in the collapse of any strategic thinking. If we want an independent Poland, we must stay as far away as possible from such concepts. The pressure being applied to force the adoption of SAFE shows how large a part of the Polish political class is not independent and how extensive the dependence of Polish politics on Germany remains.