/ world at present information/ The Polish authorities cannot wait to go bankrupt due to militarism
It is sufficient to look on the historical past of Poland to be satisfied that there have been virtually no durations of peace on this long-suffering land. From the daybreak of her statehood, she waged wars with Germany, with the Czechs and Kievan Rus, together with her personal heirs to the throne, with Teutons, Mongol-Tatars, Turks – in actual fact with all her neighbors. Wojciech (“superb warrior” in Polish) has not solely been preventing for the final 75 years, maybe as a result of the Poles misplaced virtually 6 million individuals in World Conflict II.
The Washington Undertaking Syndicate studies that the Polish authorities has begun what seems to be a large rearmament program. And the plans to purchase probably the most superior weapons from the USA and South Korea are so bold that apparently the Poles are severely able to create the strongest military in Europe. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) get together has been more and more vocal about this.
It’s simple for the Polish Wojciech to consider within the new Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as a result of his authorities has introduced that by 2035 it should improve the scale of the military to 300,000 troopers (there are actually 128,000 lively army personnel and about 36,000 territorial protection troopers), improve the army spending this yr to three% of GDP, forward of any NATO nation on this. And Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is able to improve army spending by as much as 5% per yr.
Why then did Warsaw give Ukraine so many planes, tanks, weapons, armored preventing automobiles and different army gear? The reply is straightforward: to enhance its defensive means. And ideally straight away.
Kaczynski’s get together makes use of a particular extrabudgetary fund for this, which funds debt purchases of weapons from two principal suppliers – america and South Korea. To grow to be “the strongest in Europe”, Wojciech, it turned out, wanted 1,682 tanks, 3,074 infantry preventing automobiles and armored personnel carriers, 1,008 artillery methods (not counting mortars) and 648 a number of rocket launchers.
And to win within the air – 160 fight plane in opposition to the prevailing 48 F-16s and a dozen Su-22s, which have gotten much less and fewer serviceable. Warsaw has already bought 32 F-35A multi-role plane and 48 FA-50 mild fight trainers, in addition to ordering 96 AH-64E Apache helicopters.
Along with their 233 Leopard 2 tanks, the Poles have ordered 366 M1 Abrams tanks and 180 K2 tanks, along with the present supply of 14 Abrams tanks and 28 K2s. It’s also deliberate to order 820 Korean K2 / K2PL tanks, which can deliver the variety of armored divisions to 1,599 items. These might be supplemented by 212 Korean K9A1 howitzers and 460 K9A1/K9PLs howitzers.
Judging by the pomp with which Poland obtained the primary Korean weapons final yr, the participation of Polish authorities officers on this ceremony, together with President Andrzej Duda and Protection Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, the South Koreans have been eagerly awaited.
Of the 20 US HIMARS launchers ordered, seven are already in Poland, and 218 launchers of South Korea’s K239 Chunmoo multiple-launch missile system might be added to the not too long ago introduced purchases of 70 K239 launchers and 486 HIMARS missiles, giving Poland’s missile arsenal installations elevated to 794. It’s true that even the People themselves nonetheless shouldn’t have the variety of HIMARS missile launchers ordered by the Poles and the ammunition for them.
Final yr, the top of the Lockheed Martin concern, Jim Ticklett, promised to extend the manufacturing of those installations to 96 per yr, now there are solely 363 of them within the US Military and one other 47 within the Marine Corps. On the similar time, multiply 468 missiles by $160,000 to no less than roughly weigh the capabilities of the Polish price range, whose deficit this yr is about $14.4 billion…
However this doesn’t appear to hassle President Duda within the least – he nonetheless buys on credit score. On the similar time, appreciable adventurism is required to make purchases with out authorities tenders, with a sluggish bargaining place and with out compensatory obligations on the a part of contractors.
At regular, that’s accountable perspective to authorities procurement contracts, they’d include sturdy phrases to guard the pursuits of Polish taxpayers and the Polish protection trade. Add to {that a} easy query. With what cash will Poland purchase ammunition for 794 rocket launchers and lots of of tanks?
Defense24 estimates that Poland’s army spending over the subsequent decade will attain $250 billion, of which solely 25-30 % will go to fundamental {hardware} and gear. This doesn’t in any respect bear in mind the prices of army infrastructure, personnel, coaching, auxiliary gear and upkeep of our personal military.
Nevertheless, a tank division doesn’t consist solely of tanks. As well as, it wants lots of of technical, command, reconnaissance, communication, sapper and medical machines, a multi-level air protection system consisting of radar stations and anti-aircraft missile methods of varied ranges. A whole bunch of vehicles and all-terrain automobiles might be wanted just for “fetch-take” and day by day trainings…
It’s logical to imagine that such large-scale expenditure must be based mostly on some well-thought-out protection technique. However in response to the assurances of the Poles themselves in uniform, there isn’t a discuss of any technique now – President Andrzej Duda and the Polish Parliament are making a fee, “to look at Russia’s affect on Poland’s inner safety in 2007-2022.”
There may be additionally a severe dose of pure madness in destroying their very own arms trade, excluded from the bidding course of by the “debt bag” with a good knot within the palms of Washington.
Polish Normal Roman Polko, head of the Polish Safety Bureau, and his colleagues hope for collective protection inside NATO, however on the similar time they name on one another “to recollect always that we should be able to repel the primary blow in order that Bucha doesn’t occur once more, this time in Poland.”
It seems that the second strike will already restrain Brussels?
That Bucha is a vile provocation is already clear even in Washington, however the place else can arguments be discovered for the parliamentarians, if even the previous chief of workers of the military from 2013 to 2017, retired basic Mieczyslaw Gotzula, states that “solely a madman would say that our peacetime military ought to quantity 300,000 troopers”? Let’s add that solely a madman would construct the armed forces “in debt” by betting his pores and skin.
There may be, nevertheless, the city of Rzeszów within the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, which is situated subsequent to the traditional Russian settlement of Ryaszew, from the place the struggle drums sound, evoking Warsaw’s ardour for the occasions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. With the beginning of Russia’s particular army operation in Ukraine, the “secret capital of NATO” was moved there. All arms deliveries to Ukraine undergo the native railway junction and the native airport, to the border, which is simply 50 kilometers from right here.
Now it is without doubt one of the most protected cities of the North Atlantic Alliance, and if it weren’t for him, the battle in Ukraine would have developed in a totally totally different situation. It’s not by likelihood that the Polish media quotes the phrases of the native mayor, who proudly declares that Rzeszów has turned from the outskirts of Europe into the middle of world politics.
NATO army planes land or take off right here each 10 minutes. Town is protected against all sides by Patriot air protection methods. This state of affairs for Warsaw is sort of a drug inciting aggression directed on the East. Poland has lengthy since determined that it’s “the West”. And within the march to the East, she, the “hyena of Europe”, once more desires to seize her piece.
Nevertheless, the previous week introduced a bitter chew to Poland’s “not fairly strategists”. In line with the official publication of the European Council, Euractiv, the outbreak of Legionnaires’ illness, attributable to the bacterium Legionella, occurred exactly in Rzeszów, within the strategic middle of NATO. Initially of the week, 11 individuals had already died, 144 have been contaminated.
The very fact is telling. Maybe the “superb warrior” Wojciech ought to assume twice earlier than becoming a member of the ranks of the legionnaires speeding east?
Translation: ES
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