Posted on 11/07/2021 6:40:30 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Poland To Double The Size Of Its Army, Citing “Russia’s Imperial Ambitions”
Poland announced this past week that it plans to double the size of its army to 300,000 – which would make it the largest in the European Union – as it’s increasingly worried about destabilizing threats from Belarus, and also amid fresh Western media speculation of a Russian troop build-up near Ukraine.
On Tuesday deputy prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski cited Poland’s sensitive geopolitical location as a buffer between central Europe and Russia, noting “Russia’s imperial ambitions” and the “hybrid warfare” waged by Lukashenko’s Belarus in the form of sending Muslim migrants en masse across Poland’s border.
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700mi between Warsaw and Moscow. Lots of advanced weaponry can easily make that trip...Tomahawk, PSM....
Hmmm. From four mechanized divisions up to eight mechanized divisions.
Three more than Germany currently fields though...
Good for them. Poland is probably our best potential ally in that entire area.
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