Posted on 10/29/2014 10:38:45 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Poland is planning to overhaul its military structure, including potentially shifting thousands of troops to its eastern regions. The country's defense minister cites a need for reform in light of the Ukraine conflict.
A symbolic image of Polish air force planes flying over Polish flags
Most of Poland's army is based along its western border, a throwback to the country's past as a member of the Soviet bloc, but its defense minister Tomasz Siemoniak has signaled a shift eastwards - closer to its borders with Ukraine and Russia.
"The geopolitical situation has changed. We have the biggest crisis of security since the Cold War and we must draw conclusions from that," Siemoniak told the Associated Press news agency, outlining plans to increase the usage of at least three military bases in the country's east from the current 30 percent of capacity to up to 90 percent before the end of 2017.
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Outstanding. They should arm the whole country, especially with sniper rifles, anti-tank weapons, and anti-aircraft missiles.
All part of Poland’s sinister plan to divide up Ukraine with Russia.
~All part of Poland’s sinister plan to divide up Ukraine with Russia.~
I find another part hilarious actually.
They are in NATO for some 15 years for now and still forward-deploying troops against NATO like they were told by the Soviets 70 years ago.
It took a so-called ‘Russian-invasion’ to the country East of Poland to do the math and start pointing guns at opposite direction.
It asks for some sort of a Polish joke by itself.
True. The world has been hilariously naive about you guys. They really wanted to believe Russians are not scum and it is only the leaders.
General Patton had it right.
“The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk.”
Thank you for exposure of your xenophobia once again, but I was talking not about that.
Isn’t it goofy to be an Eastern member of NATO and still have your military pointed West?
That is what I wrote. The general view was that Russians are now part of the civilized society. The view was too optimistic. People are beginning to see you for what you really are and react adequately.
Who are you by the ethnicity, Krosan?
Maybe it was distrust to Germany? Bush Senior wrote in his memoirs that Poles were strongly against reunion of Western and Eastern Germany.
In fact Thatcher was the biggest opponent of German reunion. Some of the British believed it was a Reagan’s plot to have the Germans start another war soon.
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