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Poland Prepares for War
The Polish government has set a goal of becoming the largest military force in Western Europe. Hard lessons were learned in WWII with the German and Russian occupation of Poland. The Russian occupation ended in the 1990s.
The Russian seizure of Crimea and the current threat to Ukraine has Poland worried. Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic States are worried as well. Norway, the Baltic States, and Poland are members of NATO. Sweden has a mutual military assistance pact with the United States. US armed forces, including the US Air Force, conduct training exercises with Finland’s armed forces.
Poland plans to increase the size of its full-time armed forces as well as training reserves for guerilla warfare. They pay their full contribution to NATO and are purchasing Javelins, F-35s, and will soon have the largest armored forces in Western Europe. Plans are in place to purchase new attack helicopters to replace their older obsolete Russian helicopters.
Poland is involved in hybrid warfare with Putin’s poodle, Lukashenko of Belarus. Russia is planning military training exercises with Belarus near the Polish border. Belarus, with Putin’s blessing, has been trying to destabilize Poland by importing Middle Eastern immigrants to Belarus and then trying to push them into Poland.
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I wish Poland had nukes.
Poland is easy to root for.
They actually still support Reagan and what he stood for. Unlike some people we know.
My sister called me to talk about Ukraine. We’re of Ukrainian descent and of course Putin sees a weak US president in office and has been making his plans. Very concerned – for Ukraine and the rest of both Eastern and Western Europe. These moves are also prophetic. Please read other things that have happened in recent weeks at Inside the Vatican:
https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-10-2022-friday-jan-7-orthodoxy/
Poland has not forgotten Reagan, Thatcher, and how they supported Pope John Paul II in his efforts to support the Solidarity Movement. President Reagan asked Americans to place a candle in their windows to support Poland’s desire for freedom. My mom placed a candle in the front window of their home in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Pope John Paul II almost lost his life in a KGB/Bulgarian assassination plot. The Russians with good reason feared Pope John Paul II. His efforts along with Reagan and Thatcher ended the Warsaw Pact and freed the Russian vassal states in Eastern Europe.
The Catholic Church was the voice of Polish resistance to both Naziism and Communism. The Polish people have not forgotten that, and it is a source of irritation to the EU.
The Ukranian Greek Orthodox Church is an Eastern Rite Catholic Church. The Ukranian Orthodox Church does not recognize the authority of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Crimea was seized by Russian troops both Ukranian Churches smuggled icons out of Crimea due to efforts by the Russian Orthodox Church to seize churches and their icons.
Just because I can, here is a favorite passage of his visit to the shipyards from The Struggle and the Triumph:
We did this as well. Niech żyje Polska!
Poland is not alone.
And we have a Neville Chamberlain in the White House when what we need is a Churchill.
Why is this post asking me to type in characters? What kind of weird link is there that they need me to type in anti-spam codes?
I think something went wonky a few days ago, just figured Max hasn’t caught up yet.
I’ve opened the post on two different devices. I’m not getting any unusual prompts.
I don’t blame Poland at all. They have a right to be worried. The United States needs to put an armored division in central Europe again. Nice video.
Hmm. Now I’m seeing a YouTube.
As usual, the politicians erred massively. Back when the wall fell, they should have embraced Poland and Azerbaijan and all the former SSR’s and pushed hard to keep Russia weak. Instead we paid Russia and encouraged the SSR’s, through explicit actions or through neglect, to remain loyal to our enemy. Then we used Russia to take our astronauts to space for fear of their rocket scientists, rather than capturing their rocket scientists. The Marshall Plan mentality needs to end.
It’s tragic that the Ukraine hasn’t done the same to prepare as Poland has. They will suffer for another century if they fall again.
For instance: Lech Walesa made some appearances at Tea Party protests.
I am very much a believer in non-proliferation – particularly with the numbers of nukes where they are. Truthfully, they are few enough that nuclear war has become thinkable – and perhaps winnable.
The Germans are a potential problem-
1)Diplomatic editor @MarkUrban01reports that planes to Ukraine with British anti-tank missiles avoided German and Dutch airspace and there’s speculation the Germans oppose sending the supplies to Ukraine
2)their actions in the Nord Stream pipeline (coupled with Biden’s foolishness) just increases Russian influence
3)there was a great quote by the Polish foreign minister when on a radio talk show with his German counterpart. When discussing Belarus the German said that Germany was comfortable with Russia being on the Polish frontier-the Polish minister quickly asked “which Polish border the eastern one or western one?”.
the German military’s is very small & in a shambles.
the Russians are apparently emptying their embassies in the Ukraine and moving additional battlegroups to the border.
That video and music made my stomach churn. I get the same butterflies when I watch the Kuklinski video. My mother was Polish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKFM0Q_8f8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWyqNNu0mk
The above I found on war heroes who saved Europe – lest we forget history, we’re doomed to repeat it.
Sic vis pacem, para bellum.
Ukraine has inherited some problems from the Soviet Union days. Military and corruption problems:
Ukraine did not start competing as a nation in the Olympics until 1994, they competed as Russians. Hunter Biden’s involvement in Burisma was with Ukrainian pro-Kremlin oligarchs.
There are some interesting aspects to the current Russian war against Ukraine. The Russian tanks in eastern Ukraine were never available to Ukrainians. They are not being operated by ethnic Russian coal miners. If anyone believes they are I’m trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge so if anyone wants to buy the bridge give me a call. I’ve reduced the price, it’s a real bargain.
God bless Mr. Kuklinski. A true hero.
Biden’s interest and the Ukraine’s siding with the Democrats against Trump has pretty much wrote them off from my point of view. They did not chose wisely. Russia can have them as far as I am concerned If we are smart MAGA should feel the same.
What do you mean by “capturing?” Do you mean we should have invited Russian rocket scientists to come here with the promise of better jobs, or do you mean “capturing” literally, as in kidnapping?
Preferably the former, and if not, the latter. It was a Cold War. The danger is very real and very severe.
Blinken heads to Ukraine – like Afghanistan, a day late and a dollar short. Putin meets with Iran – all meet with China. Biden won’t do a thing to break up that party because they all probably have the goods on his son. This alliance puts Russia in the Middle East – all predicted in the Bible.
Europe knows we can’t be counted on – they said so after the Afghanistan debacle. They weren’t even given notice to get their people out – our allies.
That’s hilarious. Where does the Bible talk about Russia? :)
When Reagan gave that speech (one of his best,) fire departments all over the country panicked and admonished people not to do that.
I’m sure some people exist who can’t light a candle without burning their house down, but if one is engaged enough to do what Reagan suggested, it’s probably not a problem.
That’s rather close to Belarus where Russia has troops, hope there isn’t another MH17 “accident”.