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Trump Effect: Poland to Increase Defence Spending to Five Per Cent, Build a Half Million Man Army, Says PM Tusk
Breitbart ^ | 03/08/2025 | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 03/08/2025 9:54:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a number of new initiatives to bolster defence in a speech in Warsaw, as European powers appear set to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands that the continent pay for its own protection rather than relying on America.

Speaking before the Sjem parliament, Prime Minister Tusk declared Friday: “Hope is no substitute for strategy. Hope is a beautiful feeling, but in politics, it is often adjacent to naivety or illusion… Today, Europe is beginning to understand that since the United States expects much greater outlays, determination and courage from us, it must be met.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; defence; effect; five; increase; man; million; per; poland; scent; spending; trump; tusk
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Good, FINNALY
1 posted on 03/08/2025 9:54:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Great, bigger armies and older animosities, I wonder at what point the background radiation will cause all Jiffy Pop to spontaneously erupt.

2 posted on 03/08/2025 10:01:15 AM PST by Waverunner (all)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tusk is an EU deep stater. Who else? Rutte, and now Germany’s Merz. Merz campaigns to stall immigration. Fat chance.

Is I read here there other day, “Give war a chance!”

These are governments at war, not people. They are trying to convince the people they need to go to war.


3 posted on 03/08/2025 10:02:10 AM PST by aspasia
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They ought to. See tagline.


4 posted on 03/08/2025 10:03:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

US Military is a fine service institution, but we’ve been lied to too many times into war adventures.

The Military which shielded us from overt communist aggression by Soviets needs to be reduced and reformed for something post 20th century.


5 posted on 03/08/2025 10:05:46 AM PST by Bayard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Time to bring 1/2 of the troops we have in Germany home....that would be like 10,000 soldiers.


6 posted on 03/08/2025 10:05:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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Good, FINNALY

Poland is already spending more on defense than any other country in NATO, including he USA.

7 posted on 03/08/2025 10:06:10 AM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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Poland drew the geographical short straw—between Germany and Russia.


8 posted on 03/08/2025 10:08:02 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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Poland drew the geographical short straw—between Germany and Russia.

Yep. Poland needs to look out for their own interests. Who knows what will happen in the near future.

9 posted on 03/08/2025 10:10:10 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Winning.


10 posted on 03/08/2025 10:13:37 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A great place for vacation. And the Polish women are delectable... My Polish girlfriend....


11 posted on 03/08/2025 10:15:49 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: aspasia

As Eastern Europe was occupied by the Soviets I’d say they have every right to rearm themselves. It’s about time.

Lithuania is building anti-tank traps along its border and is withdrawing from treaties covering cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines.

Thank the Russians.


12 posted on 03/08/2025 10:17:46 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poland has quietly developed the largest land army in Europe. Nobody is going to be invading Poland anytime soon.


13 posted on 03/08/2025 10:22:25 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Good, FINNALY”

Tell me about it...about 90 years too late though.


14 posted on 03/08/2025 10:23:11 AM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only 86 years too late.,


15 posted on 03/08/2025 10:25:16 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Poland needs to keep it’s head on a swivel
They’ve been marched through from both directions


16 posted on 03/08/2025 10:27:06 AM PST by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poland must defend against Russian aggression and guard its borders. Poland is reasserting itself as Russia’s chief European rival. Poland is the closest European state to Ukraine, and working with Belarusian opposition groups to Lukashenko. Expect things to get interesting as Russia weakens the longer the war continues.


17 posted on 03/08/2025 10:33:32 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep, they’re gonna.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 10:34:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: VeniVidiVici
they have every right to rearm themselves

Quickly, Tusk is an EU puppet. Does the EU have every right to arm themselves?

19 posted on 03/08/2025 10:56:11 AM PST by aspasia
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Tusks political opponents agree with him.
In this case read “the Poles”, they are pretty unified on this.


20 posted on 03/08/2025 10:59:11 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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