If that's the case, then we should also keep in mind that they are in fact not "based af" but just acting like it out of their own oppotunistic reasons.
I have a pretty close Polish friend, and honestly most of waht I hear implies that Poland never was anything close to "based". Their government is on a whole new level of stupidity and cringe that other countries can only dream of. Always expect them to do the opposite of what is reasonable.
My understanding of poland goes like
-ultra religous
-xenophobes
-every once in a while "you know, polish border should go from Edinburgh to Beijing"
-germany must pay us
-ruined the fucking Oder
-second most un-based EU country