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I suspect when sleeping with the elephant: the USSR, he may have done what was necessary as predecessor, Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski is sometimes considered to have done; Maria Countess Walewska famously kept Napoleon's attentions occupied when France occupied Poland.

"Although Maria was initially reluctant to become Napoleon's mistress, she was convinced to do so by the Emperor's aide, General Géraud Duroc (Grand Marshal of the Palace) and a number of Polish aristocrats, who hoped that she could influence the emperor to support Poland in its struggle to regain independence from Prussia, the Habsburg Empire and the Russian Empire. In her memoirs, Maria maintained that she forced herself to get involved with Napoleon for purely patriotic reasons:
"The sacrifice was complete. It was all about harvesting fruit now, achieving this one single equivalence [convincing Napoleon to support Polish independence movement], which could excuse my debased position

Polish politics ...makes for strange 'bedfellows' It ain't what U know...It's who U sleep with!