Current political and military comments coming from Russia are vehemently anti Polish. Same can be said about the Baltic states. They all hate the current Russian Federation as much as they hated the communist rule. The Russian Federation has the same expansion designs they have had for centuries.
Russian history would show them to be a large nation mostly isolationist and subject to designs on their territory by the Western European powers. So naturally after their experience with Napoleon and WW1 and WW2 they desired to set up buffer states under their control. Hence the Warsaw pact. And their crash program to develop nuclear weapons and their financing of proxy wars to keep the west broke and busy.
We played a big part in keeping the world in turmoil.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
