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[FrostKing]

PM says Poles prepared to defend their homeland

Poland's prime minister has said that 40 million Poles are ready to defend their homeland with gun in hand, if Russia attacked Poland.

Taking part in the official opening of an air-gun shooting range at a school complex in the southern province of Silesia, Mateusz Morawiecki said the war in Ukraine served as a reminder that freedom is not given for ever and that just as previous generations had had to fight for freedom, so people today need to be vigilant.

"We must know that this time of peace, maybe for many years, a long period, is over," he said. "It has happened due to the barbaric, unprovoked matter of Russia's attack on Ukraine.

"If Russia ever had the idea of attacking Poland, Russia must know, the Kremlin must know, that in Poland there are 40 million Poles ready to stand with gun in hand to defend their motherland," Morawiecki said, despite Poland possessing a population of 38 million.

He went on to say that for many centuries Poland had been "under the boot, in Russian captivity.

"We don't want that captivity back," he said. "We reject their colonialism, their imperialism. We are in a free country and we will strive, fight for our freedom."

The prime minister continued to say that one element of building defensive capacity was strengthening the Polish Army, both in terms of troop numbers and equipment.

Morawiecki added that parliamentarians would work on a special law in the coming months to ensure regulated access to firearms and announced government plans for "a firing range in every municipality."

"Every firing range is necessary, but modern ones, available to all residents, is something we stand for today," he said.

He said the special law on access to weapons would be focused on, in particular, young boys and men in order to make the country "stronger and better trained in the use of arms."

"We must be sufficiently armed to deter an enemy, our army must be strong enough that it is best never used, tested in battle," Morawiecki said, adding that the whole of civil society should be trained on firing ranges.

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article...homeland-31013

Oh boy... FrostKing

Thank you for the heads up brother. I think this is political scaremongering. The current government has been very anti-Russia since atleast the plane crash in 2010. I am in a WhatsApp group with Polaks from all over the globe and I haven't encountered any recent increase in fear. A number of fellas have tickets purchased for vacation soon or and some just returned.

[ElNono]

Thank you for the heads up brother. I think this is political scaremongering. The current government has been very anti-Russia since atleast the plane crash in 2010. I am in a WhatsApp group with Polaks from all over the globe and I haven't encountered any recent increase in fear. A number of fellas have tickets purchased for vacation soon or and some just returned.

I think Moldavia/Balkans would be next, tbh... but you really can't discard an all out war either, IMO

[Ef-man]

Crafty Ukrainians!

[horseshue]

I think Moldavia/Balkans would be next, tbh... but you really can't discard an all out war either, IMO

Baltic was next in line after ukraine, because they are an unpleasant example of fairly successful democracy for the rest of former soviet republics. But the miserable failure, the second best ( ) army are experiencing now in ukraine will assure the safety for them.

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Invictus



Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank what ever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of cir stance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scrolls,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

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Let us proceed...

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WOO, HOO!!!

[Ef-man]

More destruction.

[Ef-man]

[Ef-man]

More gifts from putler.

[Ef-man]

Respects to the combat medics (DeadlyDynasty).

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& yet Putin is taking on the entire free & non free world, Rarg; NATO, EU, UN, us, 50+ countries + Z'land and doing yeoman work 100+ days in!

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Lest we forget...

"We will not leave without our guns."

tee, hee.

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State run media CNN had the General's back on this morning. Not in studio mind you, but on remote. They'd been AWOL for a fortnight in any manifestation but they were -a-doodle-doing this morning on speculation; pure, unadulterated speculation of what COULD be. Even breathelessly springing the idea of Ukr naval ships being retrofitted with American flags and conducted thru the Black Sea.

Indeed. We shall see.

[boutons_deux]

MSF is working in Ukraine

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MSF is working in Ukraine

Back here at home we ain't got no more money for COVID treatments.

tee, hee.

[Ef-man]

Another twofer special.

[ElNono]

From Mykhailo Podolyak...

Baghdad Lavrov

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