Posted on 03/30/2024 12:12:08 AM PDT by Cronos
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged European nations to step up investment in their defense, saying the continent isn't ready for the current "prewar era."
Tusk made the remarks during a recent interview with various European newspapers.
"I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past," he said before referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "It’s real and it started over two years ago."
On Friday, Italian news agency AGI reported that Italian fighter jets at a Polish military base in Malbork intercepted two Russian spy aircraft in the Baltic Sea. The Russian aircraft were not authorized to be in NATO airspace, the report said.
"We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the second world war," he said. "I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. The prewar era
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Germany and France must step up and take the burden of financing from the USA. The USA has gone above and beyond, France and Germany must step up
Wasn’t that the same thing Trump was saying four years ago to NATO nations? Pay your fair share.
Now NATO countries are scrambling to arm themselves and supply the Ukraine.
What a sorry mess you’ve made of it Ollie!
“Germany and France must step up and take the burden of financing from the USA. The USA has gone above and beyond, France and Germany must step up”
They’ve been living off the peace dividend and mooching off us for thirty years now. Let them pay for their own defenses.
As we have always known, the left's "anti-war" posture, from the Vietnam era to the theatrics of the Code Pink operatives, has always been just that - a cynical political posture in furtherance of an ulterior political motive. Now that the left has succeeded and seized power throughout the remnants of western civilization, that posture is abandoned, and war is a convenient tool for the left to exercise its dominance.
The death Merchants and profiteers will not let a good war go to waste. War is good business invest your son. He’s telling youtmh to get used to death and destruction. That adults cannot stop it. Be prepared to die someone needs a new yacht
It started years before that.
Yeah, in 2014 when Putin invaded Crimea, or in 2008, when he invaded Georgia.
It's called the "salami tactic," i.e. take one piece at a time and make it fait accompli.
Sure it did.
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