Poland and Ukraine are frontline states for European security. That fact alone makes their mutual backsliding away from democratic reform—the indispensable precondition for their revival and security—so dangerous. The Polish government seems to want to return to its interwar model; at that time, it repressed its minorities and ultimately failed, ending up bereft of friends and allies when its crisis came. Yet its current leadership seems to have learned little from that lesson.
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Stephen Blank: Backsliding on democracy imperils security in Ukraine and Poland
The meeting between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of Poland Andrzej Duda in Ukrainian city Kharkiv on Dec. 13.
