Former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev published an article at Sputnik Polska that sets some facts straight about his country’s relationship with Poland. It comes on the heels of his similarly informative Telegram post last week and also follows Prime Minister Morawiecki boasting about how Russophobia has just become mainstream. The former Russian leader has a keen interest in bilateral ties with Poland since he previously oversaw an ultimately failed attempt to enter into a rapprochement with this neighboring Slavic nation. It therefore makes sense that he’d continue to feel so passionately about it and regularly write on this issue.

Titled “Why Are Contacts With The Present Polish Leadership Ineffective?”, Medvedev answers that question that’s on everyone’s mind by sharing what he described as seven short polemical theses. In brief, they are as follows:

1. The Polish elites’ “phantom pain” connected to their long-lost regional empire continues to influence the policymaking of the ruling “Law & Justice” (PiS per its Polish abbreviation) party, which hysterically blames Russia for everything that ever went wrong in their society’s history.

2. PiS’ malicious historical revisionism builds upon the preceding observation by resulting in the ridiculous outcome of falsely equating Nazi Germany with the Soviet Union, which subsequently poisoned contemporary relations with Russia.

3. Polonophobia is completely absent in Russia society while Russophobia reigns supreme in Polish society, especially after PiS started groundlessly speculating that Moscow secretly assassinated former Polish President Lech Kaczynski during the 2010 Smolensk tragedy.

4. Far from Russia being the one that’s allegedly weaponizing energy exports, it’s none other than PiS itself that’s weaponizing such against its own people by unilaterally breaching long-term contracts with Moscow in order to become a regional hub for much more expensive LNG from the US and Qatar.

5. PiS’ aspirations for regional leadership aren’t recognized by any existing European leaders and are only being supported by its transatlantic American patron, which set Poland up to destabilize the region through its dangerous meddling in Belarus and Ukraine.

6. Last year’s Eastern European Migrant Crisis was self-interestedly exploited by PiS to boost its declining domestic political appeal but ended up exposing the ruling party as being at complete odds with the same European values that it now sincerely claims to hold dear.

7. PiS is ultimately accountable to the Polish electorate, which can’t forever remain united under an artificially manufactured anti-Russian pretext that exploits faux nationalism, thus explaining why Medvedev hopes that eventually the ruling party will be democratically deposed and ties can recover.

Some additional words can be said about the insight that Medvedev just shared in order to help the reader better understand the importance of his latest article in the context of the fast-moving regional events that followed Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.

Simply put, PiS has successfully exploited events to position Poland as the US’ top anti-Russian vanguard, which is contrary to its people’s own interests and not least because it’s going to directly inflict enormous energy-related costs upon them due to the ruling party’s expensive LNG plans. It’s directly meddling in regional affairs and thus dangerously provoking further tensions with Russia that could easily spiral out of control by miscalculation. Its Hybrid War weaponization of energy imports, historical revisionism, and Russophobia makes PiS a Machiavellian international actor that will stop at nothing in its crazed ideological crusade to worsen Russia’s security at all costs.