I DESTROY Foreign Policy Magazine
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Being a practising foreign policy analyst is a great privilege, and comes with a commensurate degree of responsibility. A responsibility to provide wise and learned advice to equip decision-makers with the tools for wise stewardship of the international system. One medium through which this advice is conveyed is major legacy institutions like FP - Foreign Policy Magazine.
Across policy-making and academia one of the greatest sins that undermine credibility and integrity of the system is to take another's published ideas and passing them off as one's own.
Sadly this is what has been done, in publishing my idea for a resurrected Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the most pre-eminent and widely-read foreign policy publication on Earth. Not only have they failed to provide proper attribution despite prompting, but Foreign Policy Magazine has run for cover, presumably so they might pretend to have claimed to published it first.
For the sake of academics and thinkers everywhere it's necessary to call them out. Hope you enjoy watching this video as much as we did making it, please like and share so others can protect academic integrity and foreign policy rigour!
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Hey Crispin,
As Lithuanian I’m very surprised that you are interested in Lithuania’s and regions history yet claim that New Commonwealth would be more advantageous than risky for Lithuania.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Poland, their pierogi and our common hatred for Putin, Lukashenko, their followers and everything they lie for, it warms my heart but I believe we can achieve our common goals while being independent.
I’m sorry to hear that your idea was stolen, I wish It was killed instead 😆(sorry I had to…). I think you should fight for recognition on principle alone.
PS I remember (or imagine) that you promised to post more often… What’s holding you back?
Heh, funny :).
Seriously though there are two key points regarding the PLC
1. I think people gravely misread the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - that it was a Polish takeover/Polonisation. It wasn't. Not at all. For this I blame lazy historians for whom it was too much of a mouthful so they just shorthand to 'Poland', giving a really bad impression. In my view any fair reading shows that Lithuania had more influence within the PLC than it would have had going it alone. And not only this, that Lithuania had more influence within the PLC, and autonomy from Poland, than present-day Lithuania has visa-vie the European Union.
2. My proposal would not be to dissolve the parliaments or nation-states of any country, and this I could have explained better. Rather as an institution it would be a NATO within NATO, and EU within EU such that it would bring economic and security policy into political alignment such that it could be called a political entity of its own, while retaining all sovereign elements of a nation state, including the ability to withdraw at a later date. The purpose of this revived PLC will be to act as a strong counterbalance to the Western European nations when it comes to NATO discussions, and be a large voting block in the EU to dilute the Franco-German Empire that is present EU and preserve Baltic interests in that body.
As for producing more - we are across channels but feature videos take way, way more time than just my normal talking heads - so for example the History of Lithuania part IV took a LONG time to make. We also have a special video coming out on another important Lithuanian topic that has high production value. But yes, you'll see the acceleration over this month and next for sure.
@@BalticWorldThank you for your response.
I do not claim that polonisation happened forcefully through some political decisions. I could not provide any reliable historical source that claims so (for the lack of my historical knowledge or its existence). However polonisation did in fact happened as a result of Lithuanian nobleman seeking to improve their social status, get in good graces with ruler’s and so on. To this day there is a proof of that in some Lithuanians surnames because nobility polonised theirs. This is for example how Jankus became Jankiewizc and then turned Lithuanian during interwar period into Jankevičius. It’s an interesting topic in its own and there are some works by reliable Lithuanian historians that prove this, the issue is possibly in that it is not translated to English.
I do agree that closer cooperation of Northern and eastern European countries is needed for security purposes would be beneficial. Baltic states (presidents, prime ministers) almost always agree between themselves on common stance on major issues in advance. This often includes Poland too so collective voting in EU and NATO is already happening on some scale. To some extent coordination of security issues already includes Ukraine’s interests as they are tied to our own. Once the war is over and western countries are ready to accept Ukraine into NATO and EU I believe this coalition will continue to support Ukraine and work on making it happen. However I believe that it would be a mistake to institutionalize cooperation further than some council of delegates or foreign ministers that would be tasked with coordination of common interests. But that’s in no way PLC 2.0 that’s simply making common political practices formalized to be more effective without redistributing political influence in the region too much as final decision always belong to national government.
@@vvaidas11 PLC 1.0 didn't start as a solid state with shared institutions either. It was originally a close cooperation with occasional personal union. The ties were increasing slowly over centuries for mutual benefits with mutual agreement. No one is saying Lithuania or any other state should surrender their sovereignty. It would start as a mutual defence pact with some council to discuss shared interests in foreign policy.
Some sharing of military intelligence, planning and assets would also be useful, as is already done within NATO, with multinational brigade defending Lithuania right now. The difference would be that you would get more Polish or Ukrainian officers and fewer Americans or westerners.
The actual reason this is unworkable, is that NATO doesn't allow members to enter other military pacts without NATO's permission. France and Germany would never agree on such PLC.
@@milobem4458 that is why lithuanians dhould consider relying on germany for strategic depth and resources rathwr than Poland. Alternatively force Germany to change their eastern policy and build an army. The other option is to join forces with coubtires like Poland or Sweden and don t ask germany for antyhing. The only thing thay can do is to cut the surplus of EU funds. In poland it is 20euro per person per year. I suppose that it is similar in lithuania.
A great video from a sad event. Courage, determination & wisdoms to advance forward in whatever circumstances.
Really sad to hear that this has happened to you Crispin. Is there anything else you are able to do about it besides this post?
I have felt for months that this channel dies not get the same algorithmic response as it dutifully should. This post of have to justify your ideas I can empathize must be so frustrating. Sorry Crispen
This is impossible when Lithuanians are being taught at school that Poles forced them to learn Polish, which wasn't true. They learned and spoke Polish the same way we today learn and speak English, nobody was forcing us to do that. Also they omit the fact that the king and longest dynasty were Lithuanians. They often portray the history where a one national group (poles) were ruling and enslaving another national group (Lithuanians), whereas in reality 90% of Poles back them (to whom Poles today are descendants) were peasants with no rights same as Lithuanian peasants and the "Poles" in reality were a multi-ethnic ruling class. Also Liberum Veto was introduced in order to makes sure that Lithuanians and other minorities can Veto Polish policies.
I just realized the timezone discrepancy, haha.
Well the Lithuanians, Poles and all the other people's in between was the first ones, because they created Comonwealth. 😅