A natural consequence of sharing a border with Russia. Inb4 critique from countries that do not share borders with genocidal regimes.
Perfectly understandable. I would expect the next treaty European states will be withdrawing from will be nuclear non proliferation ones. It’s the only threat Putin actually fears.
A natural consequence for sure; however, AP landmines require competent armed forces to not cause collateral damage in peace time. I wouldn’t call Polish army competent, especially since 2021.
If we use competence as a measure of whether we can do something or not we wouldn’t get too far in Poland. It’s one of the reasons why I think people scared of sending troops to Ukraine should rethink that. How is an army supposed to get some real experience? Ukrainian and Russian armies are now trained through combat that we know very little about. I’d rather have our army train at the job far away from here. They are paid extremely well (flats for free! in today’s world!) and it’s time to earn that.
What happened in 2021?
Was it the arms being delivered to IKEA?
Understandably, yes.
Will they also have lines of tank traps, nicely covered by hedges, and “villas” where the windows are always shuttered, like the Swiss have them?
Baltics will have to do that on their porch probably. Poland has a pretty barren border with Russia and swamps/forests on the border with Belarus. The latter is more of an issue, people living there had their lives disturbed by constant military presence and Lukashenko was pushing migrants to us wholesale through there for years. Now they get mines too. This sucks all around so fuck Putin.
