Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "Early Plans for Operation Barbarossa Before the Invasion of Poland?" video.

@88porpoise "they invaded the Ukraine to try and take it from a Soviet Union" The goal was to create an independent buffer state, not to take it for ourselves. "seizing of a portion of Czechoslovakia" They did it first in 1920. Tit for tat. "capturing Vilnius from Lithuania" There were virtually no Lithuanians living either in the city or in the region. There are at least two independent censuses which confirm that. Why should the Poles living there not want to join their own country? The numbers of ethnic Poles living in the area remained unchanged up to this day. They became a minority mostly due to immigration from the rest of Lithuania.
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@88porpoise I had to check what I wrote, because your response is so unrelated. Anyway, the "status quo" was, that there was no Poland for 150-ish years. Of course we didn't want that to be maintained. Regarding your actual accusation, I'm not going to defend the Sanacja regime or Piłsudski. They were the reason why Poland was subdued so easily and so quickly. But of course, they couldn't do it without outside help. Money talks, and they had the finances and other resources available, in order to try and seize the power. Over and over again, until it finally worked. TL:DR - It's complicated. Kinda tragic too. In short, life. But even with all that taken into account, even considering that the regime I absolutely despise made plenty of mistakes, Poland did not do anything particularly damning. The people simply would not accept it.
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