DISINFO: The US is giving the remote control of the EU to Poland
SUMMARY
The Polish authorities aim to build a superpower from sea to sea. The US is passing the EU’s control panel to Poland by assisting Warsaw with accomplishing its imperial ambitions. Prospects of territorial expansion and the role of the US's hub of liquified gas allow Poland to dominate the region and promote the White House's interests. The US is giving the remote control of the EU to Poland.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin claims about the lost sovereignty of European countries to the United States and Poland as a state with aggressive plans towards its neighbours, aiming to blur and deflect attention away from the reality of Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
The US is an important ally to the EU but EU policy is not determined by the US. The European Union is a sovereign entity created by the voluntary initiative of European nations and it has its own, independent foreign policy, while the US has no say in its decisions. The European Union is explicit on the subject of national sovereignty: “the Member States all remain sovereign and independent states, they have decided to pool some of their 'sovereignty' in areas where it makes sense to work together.”
Poland adheres to international law regarding state borders, fully supports the independence and territorial integrity of neighbouring countries and rejects any “imperial” ambitions towards other countries. Amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, claims about Poland's intentions to expand territory are frequently bandied about by pro-Kremlin media.
See our examination of the Kremlin historical revisionism directed against Poland here. See also earlier disinformation cases alleging that Poland thinks that Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and South-Western Lithuania belong to them, that Poland wants to dismember Ukraine and re-establish a Polish empire, that EU and NATO member states are subordinate to the US, while the US has long regarded the EU as a kind of protectorate, and that Europe is a colony of the United States.