While true, I think that's too reductive. There needs to be an appreciation that different places exist on different points of the sociopolitical development curve. Minorities didn't have rights in the West, until they did. We had to get there in our own time. That was a fight and a struggle, even with all the advantages we had. Today it's obviously true that identity and immutable characteristics are not good grounds to deprive people of rights, but everything is obvious after you know the answer. You cannot spin up a modern socially liberal society on demand with no regard for what that society and culture currently is. I think the Afghanistan adventure demonstrates that. If they don't get there on their own, it doesn't stick. Modernity can't be prescribed onto a state. So what part of this is political gamesmanship and what part is organic? I don't know, but it stands to reason it's at least both.

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I think this is most likely. Poland has more latitude for disagreeing with the EU internally if it can cultivate a strong relationship with an external guarantor.