The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.

That’s… not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.

  • @[email protected]
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    232 months ago

    I would love to believe you but looking at the sleepy AF response when Europe decided to help Ukraine…

    Yeah, no, Poland is a buffer. Again.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        Ukraine not being a NATO member yet is most likely among the main reasons Putin had the balls to send troops across the border. There’s absolutely no way he’d risk a full-on confrontation with NATO, because he knows it would be the end of the Russian Federation.

        • @[email protected]
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          142 months ago

          If Ukraine was NATO, we’d be out in all force already.

          It is only because we don’t have a defense treaty with them that we risk the NATO treaty if any NATO country decides to send troops. Since they are essentially deciding for every NATO country to enter the war then.

          But if they attack a NATO country like Poland, then that is exact what NATO is designed for and nothing is risked.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 months ago

            Mate, I am not speaking about armed response but overall response. Europe was straight up sleeping. We are underarmed and our response times suck, and historically Poland always was seen as comfortable buffer zone.

            • Phoenixz
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              62 months ago

              I love your extremely oversimplified to the point of being ridiculous type response

              • @[email protected]
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                22 months ago

                Nothing is a cliche when it happens to you. I would argue if you were in poland, and especially with the knowledge how poland has been consistently fucked over by it’s “allies” your stance might differ.

                It’s easy to go into semantics when you are not one day’s ride away from firing guns.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO. In fact, their wish to join the EU and NATO could very well be the excuse Putin needed to start the invasion.