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But they seriously don't like Russia, and have pretty good grounds for not liking Russia.
They would accept a US-staffed NATO installations that produces Pez and Pez dispensers strictly for export to Nepal, and be happy about it. Then again, Russia would continue to go on and on about NATO expansionism, and probably circulate rumors that the Pez dispensers were secretly anti-tank weapons to be smuggled to the Georgians.
I mean, consider the history. Occupied by Russia for 150 years--with Polish not allowed as the language of instruction for a while. Then, when it broke away as the result of the October Revolution, Lenin sent troops in to reclaim it for the Russian empire that his government would control, and Budyony's troops were bloody and bloodthirsty--and hailed as heroes by Lenin and his crew. Then in the '30s Stalin and Hitler connived to divvy it up, and Stalin all but annexed half of it (while saying they were they to "help" their smaller Slavic brethren) and then killed off the officer corps. After the war, Stalin made sure that Poland was a buffer, so that if there was another war Russia would be able to defend itself on Polish soil. Not only did it ensure that, but it also picked up Poland and moved it 100 or so miles west--part of the land-grab that it considered "just compensation", aka spoils of war, a way of putting the noxious west a bit farther away, *and* a way of punishing Poland by not only reducing Poland's size, but making 2 million or so Poles move just a couple of years after WWII ended. (It also punished Germany.) Russia then made sure that it was a damned good ally. It helped put down insurrections in Poland, and stipulated that Polish troops put down the insurrection in Czechoslovakia (lest they become too buddy-buddy). Afterwards, Russia was offended that the Russians actions and intent weren't properly appreciated.
As for Russia, they still worry about Poland repeating the events that lead to the "Smutnoe vremya", the "Time of Troubles" 400 years ago; Russian control over Poland is somehow still justified by that. Russia also has a bit of an anti-Polish campaign: Last year, Poland was responsible, in part, for WWII because it didn't appease and cooperate with Hitler's just demands; this year, Poland was responsible, in part, for WWII because it appeased and cooperated with Hitler's diplomatic corps. Ribbentrop? Eh. That pact is still denied, from time to time. This makes a lot of Poles a bit nervous. Not so much younger ones, or those who rather enjoyed having the USSR there.
Now consider how we meddled in Latin America. We can understand anti-American sentiment there, but we can't understand anti-Russia sentiment in Poland.
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