Just when it seemed like the world couldn’t have been any more tumultuous and uncertain, 2022 witnessed the upending of the geopolitical order in Europe which had been upheld since the end of World War II in 1945. The first major land war on the continent since Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia clashed has brought with it a new, and unprecedented view of war through modern communication technology, while at the same time revealing a century-old type of attrition warfare, reminiscent of the killing fields of World War I.
For most Western audiences, Ukraine, Poland, the Baltics and the regional neighborhood, known as the Intermarium (land between the Baltic and Black Seas), where the conflict is playing out, is little known. Difficult to pronounce surnames and place names, a complicated and long history and the often distorted media prisms that present this multifaceted story, pose a serious challenge to those who seek to understand what is going on.
As a recently-minted PhD historian, translator from Polish into English, and a Polish-American who has spent a total of a decade in Poland, I am here to tell this story based on what I know, what I’ve experienced and what I will seek out.
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