http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220602-062115-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/just-a-feint/ Just a Feint? - President Duda's bill on the Polish Supreme Court and the Brussels-Warsaw deal on the rule of law Jaraczewski, Jakub eng 2022-06-01 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Andrzej Duda judicial independence Polish Supreme Court Rule of Law Ursula von der Leyen Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 A running joke in the pro-democratic military analyst community is about ridiculing the messages of pro-Russian experts who are pretending that the Russian defeat in the battle of Kyiv was "just a feint". I am afraid that the European Commission just walked into a similar strategic blunder with its deal with the Polish government on the recovery fund and the Supreme Court.