[airstrike]

Brazil also famously avoided the 2008-09 recession to a great extent, to name one example.

Tight global integration is not a bad thing. Even if we took at face value your argument that a strong domestic market protected Poland in that case, you can't cherry pick the one instance in which lower-than-expected integration was beneficial without also considering all the other times in which it was harmful.

[scotty79]

Poland's growth does well when everyone is in the dip. Even in 2020 crisis Poland dipped less than other. Although the difference was less that time. 8 years of populist rule did harm Poland a bit.

[lo_zamoyski]

But this was largely the particular cause in this case... The strong domestic market insulated the economy from international economic shocks.

[airstrike]

The US also has a very strong domestic market and yet it was not "insulated"

[lo_zamoyski]

That's because the shocks came from the domestic US market!