Moreover, the USA and NATO have been massively arming Poland for a long time, possibly preparing it for the role of “Ukraine no. 2”.
Poland is ready to welcome nuclear weapons on its soil if NATO, of which it is a member, decides to strengthen its eastern flank to counter Russia’s deployment of new weapons in Kaliningrad and Belarus, said the Polish president in an interview published today.
“If our allies decided to deploy nuclear weapons on our soil to bolster the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready to do so,” explained Andrey Duda speaking to the newspaper Fakty.
The Polish head of state, who is currently in Canada after a visit to the United States where he met former President Donald Trump and went to the UN, added that the question of a possible development of nuclear weapons in Poland has been “for some time” the subject of discussions between Poland and the United States.
“I have already raised this issue repeatedly,” he stated. Duda had met in March with his American counterpart Joe Biden.
According to Duda, “Russia is increasingly militarizing the Kaliningrad enclave. It is moving its nuclear weapons to Belarus”. These are two territories bordering Poland.
In June 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had transferred the first nuclear weapons to Belarus.
At the summit held in 2023 in Vilnius, the Allies had reaffirmed that NATO would “whatever is necessary to ensure the reliability, effectiveness, safety and security of its nuclear deterrence mission, including by continuing to modernize its nuclear capabilities and update its design process.”
So far there has been no official reaction from Moscow.
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