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Poland only has enough supplies to fight war “for a week or two”, says security chief

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Poland only has enough supplies to fight war "for a week or two", says security chief

The head of President Andrzej Duda’s National Security Bureau (BBN), Dariusz Łukowski, has warned that Poland only has enough ammunition to defend itself “for a week or two” if it was attacked by Russia

But his remarks have been criticised as “outrageous” by a deputy defence minister, who says they are not true and will be exploited by Poland’s enemies.

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  • If Russia attacks Poland directly then half the planet is about to turn to glass within those first couple of weeks

    • US is not going to respond and if UK or France were to use tactical nukes they’d glass Poland to create a natural barrier. That was the plan during Cold War.

      • i think there was an update or two since

        also the minimum deterrence always kept up by brits is that there's at all times enough nukes in submarines to destroy moscow. french have some more fine-grained options

        • Calculus didn’t change and we’re quickly regressing from things we took for granted. Paris will not nuke Moscow over Warsaw, Tallin or even Helsinki.

          • Poland was part of the Warsaw Pact during the cold war... the overall calculus that tactical nukes would be used against an overwhelming invading land army might not have changed, but Paris absolutely would nuke Moscow these days if Warsaw was attacked with strategic nukes. They have little other choice than that if their strategic deterrance is supposed to be worth anything.

            As for Tallin... given the geographic location of it, it is highly unlikely that Russia would nuke it.

            • I wish I shared your optimism but reality calls for a cold shower.

              • France/UK along most of the Western Europe was never at a real risk of war unless they started it on their own. They don’t have their skin in the game, they won’t risk anything big. People there want to live their lives undisturbed and will vote Le Pen / Farage if they are pulled into conflict.
              • Russia won’t nuke Tallin obviously because of proximity to St Petersburg, but what would be the response to a quick land grab? Words of concern probably, unless Nordics step up on their own because they’re next.
              • Nobody nukes anybody for a long time realistically because nobody is going to use nukes first and they’re not going to use nukes as a response to a conventional attack. It also looks embarrassing to nuclear powers, which is why Russia didn’t use nukes against Ukraine even though they considered it according to US intel.

              Anybody glassing Poland means things got really bad but ethics didn’t stop those plans in the 80s and I think existential threat would be enough to go back to the basics.

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