Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, declared on Thursday that Moscow would “inevitably defeat” any battle between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and NATO.
“The lower house of Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, should be afraid of a confrontation with Putin, not the West.” Sikorski stated this in his speech. It is important to remind people of this, not to make the Russians feel more dangerous, as NATO is a defensive alliance, but rather to demonstrate that an attack by Russia on any Alliance member would always result in its [Russia’s] loss.
Russia’s military and economic capacity “pales in comparison to,” according to Sikorski, who was outlining Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s vision for the new government’s foreign policy.
“Putin’s only hope is our lack of determination,” cautioned him.
Top military officials and Western allies are growing more concerned about the possibility of violence escalating from Putin’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, given that the Russian president continues to threaten the West with nuclear weapons and has nuclear weapons stored in Belarus, which borders NATO members Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
Following Tusk’s victory in October’s election, which saw the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party of Poland ousted after eight years in power, Sikorski resumed his position as foreign minister. Since then, Tusk’s center-right government has been working to reverse years of PiS policies, promising to strengthen ties with Brussels and bring back democratic norms in the nation.
According to Tusk’s new warning, Europe is still a long way from being prepared to meet the threat that lies ahead, even though it is living in a “pre-war era.” Andrzej Duda, the president of Poland, recently declared that his country is “ready” to host nuclear weapons on its soil in the event that NATO chooses to bolster its eastern flank.
Sikorski attacked the foreign policy of the previous administration on Thursday, referring to it as “a series of misguided ideological assumptions, bad ideas, wrong decisions and omissions.” In addition to financial losses, Poland was forced “to the margins of the most important debates in the European Union, as well as in NATO,” and it suffered a “loss of credibility and prestige” and a decline in foreign relations.
The next government will follow a different course than the one that followed the “path of confrontation.”
