If a good part of the German allies, including the infamous Saxons, did not start to shoot by surprise on the French troops in the middle of the battle, perhaps the result could have been different. Damned traitors!
That's why I have lots of respect for the Polish, and I am very shameful we didn't help them in september 1940. They remain trustworthy allies of Napoleon to the end.
It is what has constantly been happening to Poland for the last centuries, Poland helps others, expects some reciprocal help through treaty's and what not, but then in the time of need nothing happens.
Like Poland's support for the USA, one of the few countries that trusts the US and supports them in the new Gulf war and you get nothing in return, not one measly contract even for shoe laces. In fact when stuff lightens up and a new oilfield is found in the Polish sector of Iraq and Poland should according to agreements get some slice of the cake, the Americans go in and conveniently move the Poles to a different, more dangerous sector.
But hey, that is how the world works, I for one am not that pissed of, if anything it gives you a good insight in to the realities of big politics, and Poland is of coarse not the only country that these things happen to.
The stuff I am pissed of at is that often even evident Polish successes are belittled or even stolen for someone else's glory. Like the initial cracking of the enigma codes during WW2 on which all further deciphering was built, where britons have been taught that they did it, and even during WW2 when two of the three Polish mathematicians, who cracked the code, made it alive to the British Isles, they where not allowed to join the British code breaking team.
I guess that is why so many Poles are so fervently upset over things in general.
- KD 
