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To: sukhoi-30mki

There was a time when the US would be there ready to provide everything the Poles required to defend themselves.


2 posted on 08/07/2014 6:48:03 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

“There was a time when the US would be there ready to provide everything the Poles required to defend themselves.”

When... ?


7 posted on 08/07/2014 7:02:56 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: skeeter
Do they even teach History these days??

While the Poles have saved Europe on a number of occasions, neither the Europeans or US have returned the favor when the Poles were the ones in desperate straits although they have all gotten together and agreed to redraw the borders of Poland with stunning regularity.

18 posted on 08/07/2014 12:31:23 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: skeeter
"There was a time when the US would be there ready to provide everything the Poles required to defend themselves."

There has never been a time in the history of Poland when Poland was not occupied by a foreign power or controlled by a foreign power that the US was ready to provide whatever they needed to defend themselves.

So, you know, all of what you wrote You posit a hypothetical that has no basis in historical fact other than your personal opinion with regard to or assessment of what what national policy and unnamed national policy makers would have done at some unspecified point in the past.

On the rare occasions the US helped a free and independent Poland (i.e. just prior to WWII and since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact) we have done so strictly to the extent we felt it was in our interest to do so as sauce for the bigger fish we were frying rather than in keeping with their own ideas of what they required to defend themselves and were willing to pay for.

Poland is and always has been far more willing to sacrifice on behalf of others than others have been to sacrifice on behalf of Poland and if you disagree, fine, feel free to spit in the wind of history.

have a nice day

20 posted on 08/07/2014 12:56:42 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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