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Polish President Andrzej Duda said Poland is “ready” to host nuclear weapons on its territory if NATO decides to reinforce its eastern flank.
Recently, it has been relocating its nuclear weapons to Belarus,” Duda said in an interview published Monday by Polish outlet Fakt.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin has made veiled nuclear threats toward the West, even stashing atomic weapons in Belarus, which borders NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded Monday that Russia “will take all the necessary retaliatory steps to guarantee our security,” according to state-owned news service RIA Novosti.
Duda, who recently traveled to New York and met Republican 2024 candidate Donald Trump, spoke fondly of the former president, saying that the two have “a lot of common topics."
I really like talking to him, because he is an extremely interesting personality and has a lot of experience, both political and business.”
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Good news everyone!
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Really the problem is humans. Get them out of the equation and bóom
Will you start and put yourself in a grave? Or is it just the “others”?
If every joke I made landed I’d quit posting and get a Netflix special
Malthusianism is cringe.
Groups of humans have lived beneficially with other life before. Plenty of folks are doing it right now. The endless need for consumption and extraction are manufactured for the benefit of the few. Eliminate the system that requires endless economic growth and we can start making decisions that won’t destroy ourselves and others
Oh it’s Duda, you can safely disregard that.
This cannot end well.
Good for yall
Me too.
Duda said it? Yeah let’s just ignore that
While I can understand Poland’s desire to have nuclear weapons available, this seems like it would be a really provocative step towards Russia. Nuclear weapons positioned that close to Russia will raise the threat of a nuclear first strike against Russia. Even without an unstable strongman in charge of Russia, it’s easy to see how a Russian government would be uncomfortable with this. At the same time, with an unstable strongman in charge of Russia, the provocation may not matter. Putin has proven he is willing to invade his neighbor and slaughter thousands, without provocation. So, I’m sure Poland isn’t as worried about provocation as they are defense.
While I can understand Poland’s desire to have nuclear weapons available
Available to whom? Do you think he meant nonexistent Polish nukes? Or maybe USA ones which will be entirely outside Poland control.
Cool, let’s let them. Poland’s a strong ally in Europe. I don’t see a downside
you don’t see any downside to nuclear escalation?
Countries that have nukes don’t get invaded. Simple as
This isn’t the same. Host nukes is not owning nukes, they seems to be proposing housing US nukes that Poland would not have control of, or be able to launch. With no launch codes, they aren’t a valid deterrent to conventional war, unless the world is convinced the US would use them to protect Polish sovereignty, which would obviously not be on the table.
How many countries owning or hosting nukes have been invaded?
it’s a mirror of “Cuba is a strong ally in the West, let’s let them have nukes. What could go wrong”
Nothing did go wrong, though. If you’re saying there was a close call, that’s true, but Russia doesn’t have the ability to threaten a conventional response. And no one gets nuked for moving nukes around; look at Belarus.
The problem with the world is that good people are conflicted while evil people are confident.
“Watch this, imma fuck with Putin real quick.”
Unnecessary, there is nothing Poland can offer that isn’t already guaranteed by an Ohio class submarine
We already had the Cuban missile crisis before, we don’t need this shit again. This time it might go differently.
