According to a launch of the Associated Press a few hours ago, The Polish President Andrzej Duda He would have invited the United States again to deploy nuclear weapons in Poland as a deterrent against Russia, taking more and more considering being able to have a medium and long -range missile protection against the threat represented by Moscow. President Duda would have made his appeal during an interview with Financial Times Published on Thursday 13, repeating an appeal that had already advanced to the Biden administration almost three years ago. Wojciech Kolarski, Duda’s councilor for international affairs, followed the appeal of her presidency with an interview with the Polish Radio RMF on Thursday morning, a dialogue in which she claimed that nuclear protection would improve the safety of the NATO member country but exposed as no one else along the European Eastern side, as well as ally with Ukraine, bordering the Bielorussia and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.
One of the Polish problems is the internal disagreement on the matter, With Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a political opponent of Duda, who last week said that Poland was already in negotiations with France after the proposal of President Emmanuel Macron to use the Paris nuclear deterrent for the same purpose. Proposal that Moscow has defined as “extremely conflicting” and harbinger of implications and diplomatic consequences against Paris, REA of having trained the Ukrainian pilots and of having also provided the Mirage 2000-5 with Kiev, aircraft with an extensive attack capacity compared to the F-16.
Macron called Moscow a “threat to France and Europe” Even during a television speech to the nation that took place about a week ago, during which he did not spare accusations in Moscow regarding massacres of civilians. By constitution, the President Duda is also commander in the head of the Polish Armed Forces, whose arsenals in the last two years have been the subject of rapid expansion, while the idea of placing nuclear weapons would derive from what was made by Putin dell 2023, deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a nation that borders Poland and also with Ukrainian. Poland has in fact increased its expense for defense to 5% of GDP, more than all the other European states belonging to NATO, and has started building anti -tank fortifications on the border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, while the USA maintain a presence of about 10,000 soldiers. When he was asked how the presence of nuclear weapons would have made Poland safer, Duda said: “Every type of strategic infrastructure, be it American or NATO, that we have on our soil, is strengthening the propensity of the United States and the alliance of the North Atlantic to defend this territory”.
Regarding the strategy to be applied for the resolution of the war, Duda argues that requests to the European Union to seize Russian assets for a value of about 200 billion euros, now frozen in European banks, should be used to support Ukraine both from the point of view of armaments and to support the reconstruction of Ukraine. In particular, using these words: “I can’t imagine that after the destruction of Ukraine, Russia can simply resume this money without paying any damage to war of war.” For completeness of information, it must be remembered that last July a new ballistic missilistic defense of the United States had become operational in north-eastern Poland called “Aegis Ashore”, part of a wider missile missile shield designed to detect, trace and intercept the ballistic missiles in flight.
At the time the then NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: “This is an important step for transatlantic safety and for the ability of the alliance to defend itself from the growing threat of ballistic missiles, weapons that have been widely used in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. As a defensive alliance we cannot ignore this threat. Missilistic defense is an essential element for the main task of the collective defense NATO. ” The recent Aegis Ashore structure has a control and control center called “deckhouse” of the Ballistic Mission Mission Defense System at the Naval Support Facility in Redzikowo, precisely in Poland, where launch sites are operational for the neutralization of threats. The Polish site can defend from short and medium -range ballistic missiles. The key elements of the missile shield born in Europe include the two Aegis Ashore sites of the United States in Poland and Romania, together with the destroyers of the American navy based in Rota, Spain, and an early alert radar installed in Kurecik, Turkey.
