Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister, has spoken in favor of US nuclear weapons being deployed in eastern Europe, citing Russia’s military offensive against Ukraine.
In an interview with Germany’s Die Welt news outlet published on Sunday, Kaczynski said that “fundamentally, it makes sense to expand nuclear sharing to the eastern flank,” apparently referring to a NATO concept by which “the benefits, responsibilities and risks of nuclear deterrence are shared across the Alliance.” The Polish official noted, however, that such an initiative should come from the US.
On top of that, Kaczynski called on the military bloc to set up a new command center in Poland, akin to the one in the Dutch town of Brunssum, “from where joint NATO deployments will be planned and conducted.” According to the deputy, that would send a clear signal to Russia that the military alliance is now present in Eastern Europe at command level as well.
In addition to the adoption of the NATO concept, Warsaw “would welcome it if the Americans in the future increased their presence in Europe from the current 100,000 soldiers to 150,000,” Kaczynski in this instance citing “Russia’s growing aggressiveness” as the main threat. The Polish official proceeded to break down the numbers, explaining that “75,000 troops should be permanently stationed on the eastern flank, that is, on the border with Russia.” He also told Die Welt that Warsaw would want to see 50,000 US service personnel in the Baltic states and Poland alone.
Kaczynski’s calls for Washington to beef up its military contingent on the European continent comes despite NATO having already agreed to deploy additional battle groups to Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
Part of the deputy premier’s interview was devoted to criticism of Germany over its refusal to impose an embargo on Russian oil, and to the extent of support it is providing to Ukraine. He told journalists that he was “very unhappy about the German government’s behavior,” adding that Berlin “could deliver more weapons,” as well as “speak out in the EU in favor of an oil embargo.” Kaczynski also opined that Russian oil could be replaced with relative ease, acknowledging at the same time that finding a viable substitute for Moscow’s natural gas was far more problematic.
“You cannot continuously support a great power like Russia with billions out of energy sales,” the 72-year-old official insisted, describing the current state of affairs as “unacceptable from a political and moral point of view.” According to Poland’s deputy prime minister, “Germany ought to finally take an unequivocal stance on this.”
Kaczynski accused the German federal government of turning a blind eye for years to “what Russia under Putin is doing.” He concluded that “it has panned out badly, as we now see,” adding that it was not at all “difficult to foresee” where the situation was heading.
Since the start of Russia’s military campaign against Ukraine on February 24, the European Union has slapped Moscow with unprecedented economic sanctions, targeting numerous government and private entities, individual business people and entire industries. Yet, Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine are calling on Brussels to go even further and ditch Russian hydrocarbons altogether, which are currently exempt from the bloc’s sanctions. However, Germany – Europe’s major industrial powerhouse – has so far opposed the total phasing out of Russian gas over concerns that it could wreak havoc on the German economy, with 34% of the gas consumed in the country last year coming from Russia.
Berlin has made it clear that it will be gradually weaning itself off Russian energy, looking for alternative sources though adding, however, that such a transition cannot happen overnight.
In late March, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki vowed to stop importing Russian gas, oil and coal by the end of the year, with Lithuania, too, announcing on Saturday that it has ceased buying Russian gas “from this month on.”
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday requiring countries that have imposed sanctions against Moscow to pay for Russian gas in rubles starting from April 1. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned that failure to pay this way would mean the end of gas supplies, which Moscow was not going to give away “free of charge,” he remarked, also noting that Western sanctions had left Russia no other option but to switch to its own national currency, as dollars and euros could be “taken away.”
However, France, Germany and several other European nations have made it clear that they are not going to comply with Russia’s demands, calling these a “blackmail” that runs counter to the terms of existing gas contracts.
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Another Jew proselyte selling out his country and the rest of humanity in service of world Jewry.
The polish politicians have a talent to create hatred, unrest, uneasy feelings about their going up and going down in their rusty poltics year in year out toward the outside world.
They still have not even the brains to realize this is not the UdSSR but a country normal like you, me and even the polish people I am sure, want to live in peace and harmony with their neighbours..
What they are doing is very old fashioned. And if I may the polish politicians took the wrong sparring
partner to want so desperately to start a war wutg Russia. Even Sleepy Joe is refusing to put that kind of hot material onto the Land of HotHeads.
IMO the polish politicians are even dangerous towards their “political collegues”.
The ambition to ouster Germany and France within Europe so Poland will become the new leader of Europe is something you can forget and is is totally misplaced.
Nobody IMO is trusting a country that is inviting an external Military to voluntarily occupy its country and then also pay for it. No sensible country is inviding USA to please install nuclear weapons in its garden.
Shortly said, one must be out of his mind to demand that kind of things.
Poland, it is time for Poland to grow up and begin thinking about normal relations with your neighbours and pleae forget about all these murdertools to kill your neighbours.
Poland is not getting its old empire back.
Poland will not ever again occupy Moscow as it did once in its history.
Propose Poland could take the lead and start preaching PEACE to start with it in Europe.
And if Poland is fed up with interfering EU than it should start a Polex to have a live of its own again.
This nothing personal to the polish people who are as friendly as everybody else and are not looking for starting a war.
The USATAN cannot continue to occupy Europe and oppose China at the same time, the sooner USATAN gets out of Europe and stays out the better, we don’t need you, you are a menace in the world, you have lost against Russia over Ukraine and you won’t be any more successful against China.
We as Christians men have to learn to rightly divide the Word of God in the days ahead. Knowing the signs of the times we are living in and the instruction in His word for those days and challenges we face to keep our loved ones FAITH alive. Will make the difference between Eternal Life or death for those in our care!