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bring back the crusades
As someone Polish, we only ever fought against the Crusaders. Including the arguably greatest battle of the medieval Europe: https://warsawinstitute.org/wi-daily-news-610th-anniversary-battle-grunwald/
Meme depiction: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/AZYXo that inspiredn his CG animated short film: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AQRf15K2TRs
No respect lol
Actually, Poland led at least one crusade. It was a later crusade and didn't end well for the crusaders, but it was still an official one (sanctioned by Pope Eugene IV & partly led by a Papal legate, Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, who died in the disastrous final battle) and also included the very same Teutonic Knights the Poles had defeated at Grunwald earlier.
The famous Holy League 200 years later, where Poland's winged hussars saved Vienna and later conquered Podolia as part of the greater Christian victory over the Ottomans, could also count if you consider the Holy Leagues to be repackaged crusades (that particular League did have the enthusiastic backing of Pope Innocent XI, who didn't just send 'thoughts and prayers' but also funded Poland & the other League participants as much as he could).
Ahh, it's so unknown here it doesn't even have an article in Polish Wikipedia. Memory holed.
Manipulated by the pope, a young king broke a peace treaty with the Ottomans against the opposition of the nobles (who thought it was dishonorable), then was killed in the resulting total disaster aged just 20 after being betrayed by the Venetians in this idiotic adventure. There was a legend about how he survived but was too ashamed so lived in hiding.