Bad Poland, Bad

We are not amused. We are, in fact, quite outraged, I should say.

Apparently, the cover of a Polish magazine that equates the EU's "crime de la crime" (misspelled? Where?) to Hitler & Co. has left the amazingly competent (as in "it's amazing they have so little competence") EU officials in shock.

I won't defend Poland's argumentum ad nazium, but I'm neither surprised, nor shocked, much less outraged.

The EU is reaping what it sowed, and when someone says Poland should be put under supervision, because it's a “systemic threat” to EU values, I can't help but wonder.

What EU values would these be, pray tell...?

Are these the same EU values where members compete with each other on fiscal policies? Do these EU values include the sanctity of "under-the-table" agreements to attract investment, thus diverting it from other members?

Or could these be the values that justify that the Northern Efficient Productive part of the EU didn't actually give a rat's behind about how their money was managed by the Lazy Southerners? You know, "Wheelie" Schauble's "They did it for years!!!!1!!!! And I knew about it and did nothing".

Or are these, perhaps, the same values that resulted in crashing the Southern European economies to save Northern European banks?

Actually, this last point brings another question - wasn't Poland a valuable EU partner when it was time to arm-twist the Greeks?

Hey, here's a thought - we sent Turkey some of our "EU values" (a large number of millions of said values, actually). Maybe we could the same with Poland, right? No...?

This is the normal development in a community whose most important value can be summed up as "What's in it for me?"

Any seed of cooperation that ever existed in the EEC/EU (and, looking at its history, whatever did exist can be charitably described as "fragile") was destroyed a couple of decades ago, when someone decided that "budget" was more important than "leadership".

Oddly enough, we got neither. Who could've predicted that, hey?