Radek Sikorski Unleashed | Andrew Roberts | Secrets of Statecraft

[@elizabethallemong6951]

Radek Sikorski is right about social media getting away with lies. When a neighbor spreads damaging lies about you, you can take that person to court and sue for defamation. Why then should we tolerate social media (often acting as "Putin's plugs") spreading lies about others? There has to be some accountability or else soon we will all look at each other as enemies and that would leave Putin laughing with satisfaction. Healthy honest competition is one thing. Deliberate lie is another thing. It seams that every ad on youtube is another lie. I am sick of it!

[@norsenomad]

Sikorski is always worth listening to. A question for Poles: Radek is the pet form of Radoslaw in Poland, and often used in everyday speech, is it? Or is that form also used in more formal situations?

[@kronos458]

Yes it derives from Radosław, but this abbreviated form as a formal first name is quite unusual.

[@norsenomad]

@kronos458 I see. Thank you for the insight!

[@Dzoseff]

He is know as Radek outside of Poland as it is easier to pronounce for non-slavic speakers. Seems to be his choice since when he emigrated to GB during comunism era.

[@jmcw9632]

this guy is a star

[@SztywnyTusk-f9t]

Yes, the Red Star.

[@pincetczy]

@@SztywnyTusk-f9tyou don’t have the thinky-thinky part of the brain, do you?

[@jakubjodlowski8416]

Radek is just great.

[@SztywnyTusk-f9t]

His wife is even greater.

[@Acor3pl]

great totalitarian

[@leswilliamson3587]

Thanks

[@ActFast]

Love him 🇵🇱. I wish we 🇺🇸 had his clarity about Russia 🇷🇺/ Ukraine 🇺🇦.

[@awuma]

Indeed! As a young journalist in the 1980's, Radek rode and fought with the Mujahedin against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. This week, he is competing with Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski in the primary election to be the Civic Coalition candidate in the Presidential election coming up next May. Both are really excellent candidates (Rafał came close to winning in 2020), so the Coalition's 20,000 or so members have a difficult choice. While Rafał is better grounded in Polish local politics and Radek is better known on the international scene, either one would be a vast improvement on Poland's previous Presidents (though Aleksander Kwaśniewski did pretty well in his two terms 1995-2005 despite a slight over-fondness for the bottle at inappropriate times). Both have good connections with both the Republicans and Democrats in the US and have lived in the US. Civic Coalition is itself a big-tent alliance spanning centre-right, liberal, centre-left and Green, while the governing October Fifteenth Coalition spans agrarian conservative to socialist left (Civic Coalition's Prime Minister Donald Tusk holds it all together with a firm grip). The opposition national populist Law and Justice party (PiS) of Jarosław Kaczyński sees Victor Orban and Donald Trump as its spiritual guides. Twenty years ago PiS was a mainstream conservative party, but during its first term in government (2005-2007) Kaczyński steered it in an authoritarian direction, resulting in people like Radek Sikorski, his wife Anne Applebaum and others leaving to become associated with the centre-right Christian Democrat-like Civic Platform, which has grown into a wider centrist party and taken on three smaller parties as allies across an even wider spectrum as Civic Coalition (Oct. 15th is much wider yet). It stands for moderate, rule-of-law, European, constitutional and democratic principles.

[@SztywnyTusk-f9t]

@@awuma in 2010 he invited Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to official meeting with Polish ambassadors to prove that Polish foreign policy will concur with Russian measures. in 2015 he admit that Polish-American alliance is a "complete bullshit".

[@Acor3pl]

Mr Applebaum is as credible as his wife, which he openly said during Munk debate.

[@soundabuse]

Radek, for what he'd done during his last term leading polish MFA, should be buried and forgotten. Unleashed? Give me a break. Greetings from Poland everyone.

[@robertprawendowski2850]

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[@EmeraldMaret]

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[@BitcoinMeister]

"regulate social media" You lost me on that one dude. Compete, don't complain.

[@Mesamedusa]

'free of regulation' does not exist within society. The problems with social media are obvious and need to be dealt with. "Competition" has ran its course.

[@Humanaut.]

Well there is a place for regulation in social media: Foreign state funded propaganda.

[@woodchuck003]

I'm not sure how you can criticize Russia for being authoritarian when you yourself want to censor social media. Countries might get more money if they didn't push the lie that their countries corrupt autocrats. Be honest about your authoritarianism just say that your pro-US authoritarians versus Russia's anti-US authoritarianism.

[@awuma]

The Internet with its social media is even more pervasive than printing was after Gutenburg's invention... yet we had comprehensive censorship of books everywhere until about sixty years ago (remember the uproar about Nabokov's works?) Film censorship is still practised everywhere. The effects of Internet media via smartphone on young people are increasingly being noted, and several countries are now taking measures to cut children off them. Absolute freedom of social media is unacceptable, and you know it. Censorship in time of war is necessary. The battle against Covid-19 was a kind of war, and it was essential that false information, possibly of malevolent foreign origin, be suppressed. Some countries shut down their economies and schools for too long, but that was an error of judgment not connected with censorship.

[@lukasz713]

You would be surprised what he thinks about Poland-USA relations 😅😂 Check “Sowa i przyjaciele” wire tapping from 2014.

[@MadeTheSame]

In Russia political opponents get imprisoned or killed. That is authoritarian, not censoring social media.

[@hieronymusbosch2656]

Murdering critics, journalists and opposition leaders and being for regulating social media are kind of different things. In Russia there is no Facebook, KZbin or Twitter at all. They are illegal. Putting a "=" sign between this is crazy. For the record no other country has American style first ammendment free speech protection. Not many countries have rulers that murder for criticism.

[@Dang1n-par]

"Thank you USA." Mr Radek Sikorski after the Nord Stream sabotage.

[@hieronymusbosch2656]

He was very right to post that.

[@meinking22]

Won the war of the Black Sea? What? Russia intentionally left the routes open. Then he said Ukraine won back 50% of the territory. What? When? 😂 Clown world.

[@guciodestroyer2432]

A very unclear figure

[@maciejsiebert6185]

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radek Sikorski and his colleague Donald Tusk Let these wonderful people explain to you what happened to the True Patriot of Poland, President of Poland LECH KACZYŃSKI AND A DELEGATION OF 99 MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN 2010 POLES REMEMBER MR. RADEK AND YOU WILL ANSWER SUNER OR LATER

[@awuma]

Jarosław Kaczyński's big lie that the April 10, 2010 disaster in Smolensk was a terrorist attack is the Polish equivalent of Trump's allegation that the 2020 election was stolen. Several investigations have conclusively shown that the crash was caused by pilot error induced by pressure to land in solid fog. Other "holes in tthe Swiss cheese" contributing to the tragedy were primitive Russian air traffic control, bad training and pilot certification by the Polish Air Force VIP transportation unit, and failure to maintain a sterile cockpit environment. Note that all the main political parties had representatives who died, as well the the military leadership, chaplains and other notable figures of Poland's recent history. The exploitation of this national catastrophe by Kacyński's Law and Justice Party is disgusting, and charges are finally being laid. The main perpetrator, Antoni Macierewicz, is quite likely a Russian agent.

[@bobbyhenderson8655]

Kaczyński and his Air Commander neglected safety regulations and gave an order for pilot to land on airfield in Smoleńsk in bad weather conditions which resulted in a crash in which 96 highest polish officials and generals died! Stop with this Macierewicz nonsense!