Poland Will Come Out The Winner
I don't think it's a coincidence that Poland has beccome the second-largest supplier of weapons and other aid to Ukraine, behind only the US. (Canada, however, may have moved into second in recent days.) I'm starting to think their opportunity is historic. According to Wikipedia, The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years. The partitions were conducted by the Habsburg monarchy, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire, which divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves progressively in the process of territorial seizures and annexations. The wars of the 20th century severely weakened the successor states to Prussia and Habsburg Austria, while the collapse of the Soviet Union and the likely outcome of the Russo-Ukraine war have left a vacuum into whic...