Posted on 03/03/2014 5:59:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Polish news site Thenews.pl is reporting that President Obama in a telephone call on Sunday to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski “assured him ‘unequivocally as to Poland’s security, knowing that Poland is not only a neighbor of Ukraine but Russia as well.’
Speaking Monday after a meeting of Poland’s Nations Security Council – with Poland’s Defense Minister, Foreign Minister, Prime Minister and opposition party leaders in attendance - Komorowski informed the media that he had directed Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to “request NATO consultations under Article 4 of the alliance’s founding treaty.”
Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on April 4th 1949 and states that “The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened.” Poland, which shares a border with Russia and is a recent addition to NATO, is concerned that, while Ukraine is not a member of NATO so it is not party to the principle of mutual defense, the current aggressive posturing by Russia may be a precursor to more belligerent actions by Moscow. Komorowski also raised the case for actions being taken against Russia saying, “Poland should present the case for a very firm stance on sanctions, both political and economic.”(continued)
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If Poland believes that, I won’t feel sorry for them. Obama is not going to protect Poland. Obama wants Russia to have the whole Europe in their grasp!
LOLOLOL!
That is great!
This guy is such a jackass.
I stole it fair and square from tcrlaf...
Who would have ever guessed that Harry Reid was smarter than anyone in the Obama administration?
Good thing the Poles have that missile defended we installed !
Oh wait...
As if Hussein’s “promises” meant anything.
I hate to say this but that grandma is right
Briliant in a gallows humor kinda way
And what about Ukraine? We just throw them to the Russian bear? Obama is nothing but a coward.
There’s no need for Poland or any other country to worry. All Putin wants is the Sudetenland. Right Barry?
Poland ???
What is Obama smoking?
“Zippy promises to defend madagascar from Russia”
What about the Virgin Islands?
I heard that Putin wants to rape it.
ROFLMAO
Yes. Yes it is.
Zero is naturally going to pick a place Putin has no interest in, so he looks good to the media and continues his ‘do nothing’ policy.
"In 2009, President Obama cancelled the deal the U.S. had with Poland and the Czech Republic to build an interceptor site and radar that would provide protection of the U.S. homeland and allies from rogue ballistic missiles. Polish and Czech leaders took on the task of educating their populations of the necessity of defending their populations from Iranian missiles, of collaborating with the U.S. to do this, of having American soldiers on their territory, and—the hardest of all—that the blowback from Russia over the sites was worth it.
It is an American tradition—and not a uniquely Republican or Democratic one—to resolutely stand with America’s friends and confront, if necessary, those who threaten them. It was President John F. Kennedy who said, “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
The last several years, starting with the abandonment of the missile defense site, President Obama has taken the U.S. down a path that takes a sudden departure from this policy."
Source: Heritage.org
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/08/polish-president-blasts-obama-on-missile-defense/
Defend Poland with what? The missiles he already negotiated away during the famous “Reset”? Let’s face it - if 0bama told me he had my back in a fight I’d hope to hell it was a pillow fight and not a bar fight.
What do you know.
Do you live in a country near Russia.
Ukraine was safe 20 years ago.
and now Putin is pulling rebuilding the New Iron curtain.
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