I accepted with great satisfaction that President Emmanuel Macron mentioned it – said President Andrzej Duda in an interview with the French Station LCI, referring to the proposal to expand the French nuclear umbrella on European allies. According to him, “this is a gesture showing France's sense of responsibility for European security, for their allies, including Poland.” The president also commented on the actions of Donald Trump. According to him, the US “have this strength to influence Russia.”
President Andrzej Duda He interviewed the French LCI station. He was asked, among others, about the proposal of the French leader Emmanuel Macron, who announced that he wants to “open a strategic debate” about nuclear deterrence, and France She would protect herself and her partners in this way.
Duda about Macron's proposal: it's a gesture showing a sense of responsibility
– Every formula of allied cooperation that increases our safety is valuable for us – said President Duda.
He added that “he accepted with great satisfaction that President Macron mentioned it, because it is a gesture showing France's sense of responsibility also for European security, for his allies, including Poland.”
He noticed that for now, however, there are no details and conversations between European leaders are still necessary.
Duda was also asked what he thought about the possible sending of soldiers to Ukraine. According to him, such a decision would have to be accepted on the forum NATO. – We think that we are in such a situation that we can be the ally who is released from sending troops to Ukraine – the president said.
In his opinion, if Poland took such a step, “it would definitely be used by Russian propaganda, which will not be beneficial for NATO.” – And secondly, we support Ukraine 24 hours a day. Polish territory is a transmission belt of all help for Ukraine. We have one highway, which leads from Western Europe to Ukraine, we have a wide -totor railway line that leads to Ukraine, we have an international airport closest to the Ukrainian border, thanks to which both military and humanitarian supply from around the world can go to all corners of Ukraine. (…) These are still alarms and NATO planes are raised to protect the sky, because the Russians violate the airspace, Russian rockets appear above our sky, and one of them unfortunately fell and killed two of our citizens-he calculated.
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He also assessed that “we have to get out of this mistake, which we made as Europe, that is, that we have weakened in military terms, security, in terms of deterrent.” – It is enough to compare the defense expenses made by France, Poland or other countries before the end of the Cold War, and which later in what condition our military resources were at the time of explosion wars in Ukraine – he said.
In Duda's opinion “the time ended in which you could afford to talk about the end of history and fairy tales that there would never be war.”
He reminded that on Thursday he submitted to the Secretary General of NATO Rutte brand Application for the next peak of the issue of immediate increase in expenses of the North Atlantic Alliance for defense up to 3 percent. GDP.
“Trump works”
Andrzej Duda also said that there is no doubt that President of the United States Donald Trump is “absolutely determined to end the war” Russia in Ukraine.
– There is also no doubt that United States As the world's largest power, they have this strength to influence Russia. They have not only military strength, but also economic, and here President Trump is extremely experienced – he argued.
He also recalled, among others, the Friday entry of the American leader in social media, in which he wrote that He thinks about hard sanctions towards Russia. – As you can see, President Trump works – summed up Andrzej Duda.
However, Trump clarified that such sanctions could be imposed until the arms suspension and the final peace agreement. At the same time, he has already taken very specific actions to Ukraine, which reconcile in its defense abilities against aggressor. Among others He suspended military assistance for Kiev. In addition, the US government reported on Friday that has received access to satellite photos Maxar Technologies, which were used in the defensive war with Russia. According to Ukrainian sources, photos of this type are now coming from “alternative roads” from American and European companies.
The Polish president also stated in an interview with the French station that “Russia will always be dangerous when it will implement what we call Russian imperialism.”
– It does not matter what adjective we will add to him: whether it will be tsarist imperialism, Soviet or Putinowski – he is always the same – he emphasized. – In fact, Russia has always been a colonial power, it only implemented its colonial policy in a different way than Western countries did. (…) Russia colonized you in its neighborhood, expanding the Soviet Union. That is why it is still said that Russia is a prison of nations, because many nations that live in Russia today. If we look at who really dies in the war today, they are primarily representatives of nations from the Far East Russia – he emphasized.
Source of the main photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka