Shock horror, a politician tells the honest unadulterated truth! Irish republican James Connolly said that "governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.'' Donald Tusk, leader of the Polish committee for the same has unequivocally laid out the intention of the Polish capitalist class to grab a slice of the pie, as big a slice as possible, from the reconstruction of war devastated Ukraine. He recognises that Poland won’t be the only capitalist state fighting over the profit creating opportunities this would provide. In capitalist system and under capitalist psychology of cause it isn’t wrong to want to earn big money wherever and whenever possible. It’s the nature of the system. You might as well try to dissuade a pack of spotted hyenas from dismembering their prey. If an analogy between hyenas and capitalism is inferred we may perhaps owe hyenas an apology.
Poland intends to profit from Ukraine’s post-conflict reconstruction, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.
During a visit to the Euroterminal Slawkow railway facility Tusk pitched the expansion of the site into a key hub for materials bound for Ukraine.
“It is not wrong to say: we want to earn big money for Poland on the reconstruction of Ukraine,” he told reporters. “We want to help, but we also want to earn money on it, and this special hub is needed for this purpose.”
Poland has been one of Ukraine’s top donors since the conflict with Russia escalated in 2022, providing over €5.1 billion ($5.7 billion) in aid – more than 70% of it military – according to Germany’s Kiel Institute. Warsaw is also part of the so-called “coalition of the willing,” a group of European nations advocating continued military aid for Kiev. Polish officials have repeatedly urged EU-wide militarisation in response to what they describe as a growing threat from Russia – claims that Moscow has repeatedly dismissed as “nonsense” and “fearmongering.”
The Euroterminal Slawkow, established in 2010, lies near the intersection of Pan-European Transport Corridors III and VI. It currently supports regular connections within Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Italy, and several Ukrainian locations. According to Tusk, the terminal has the potential to become a major transshipment centre, thanks to its location at the junction of rail lines linking Western Europe with Ukraine and Asia.
Tusk complained about Poland’s minimal role in reconstruction efforts after the Iraq War, insisting that the country will not be sidelined again.
“It cannot be like it used to be... where everyone got involved, including Poland, and then the bigger players made money on the reconstruction, and Poland was left out in the cold,” he said.
“If we are talking about tens, hundreds of billions of zloty that the world, Europe, Poland, Ukraine will spend on the reconstruction, then among other things we are expanding this logistics hub... so that Poland can make money on it,” he concluded.
The World Bank estimates that Ukraine’s recovery could cost more than $500 billion over the next decade.’
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