POLAND/MUNIC CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE: Behind-the-Scenes + Back-Stage Conversations
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Polish president to meet Macron, Scholz and Sunak in "diplomatic offensive" ahead of Biden visit in an effort to drum up support for Ukraine
Polish president to meet Macron, Scholz and Sunak in "diplomatic offensive" ahead of Biden visit Poland Set to Acquire 96 New Apache AH-64 Attack Helicopters >> Poland will become the second largest Apache operator in the world, after the U.S. Army
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Sep 26, 2023
Poland Minister of Defense Visits Boeing Apache Site
- Polish delegation celebrates recent AH-64 Apache selection
- The AH-64 Apache will enhance Poland's interoperability
The minister met with Boeing leaders and toured the AH-64 Apache production line in celebration of Poland’s recent Apache selection.
NOT ANY TIME SOON FOR THAT "COUNTER-OFFENSIVE": Poland won't be sending F-16 Jets and Patriot Defense Missiles to Ukraine
Poland won’t supply F-16s to Ukraine – PM
"Warsaw does not have enough F-16 jets or Patriot air defense systems to send any to Ukraine, but other countries should do so right away, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters on Thursday.
“We have too few F-16 aircraft, so at the moment, today, there are no such expectations from us,” Morawiecki said at a press conference at Castle Mimi in Moldova, on the first day of the European Political Community summit, according to Polskie Radio.
The Polish Air Force officially has 48 F-16 fighters, 12 of which are training variants. It has ordered 48 Golden Eagle light jets from South Korea and 32 F-35s from the US, but they have not yet been delivered.
“We handed over our MiGs – good planes, good fighters, and this is greatly appreciated,” the Polish PM added. Poland followed Slovakia in sending Ukraine some of its 19 Soviet-era MiG-29 jets to make up Kiev’s losses over the past year.
Morawiecki also noted that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky thanked him for organizing the F-16 “coalition,” referring to the push by several NATO members to supply Kiev with the US-designed fighters. While many countries, including Poland, have offered to train Ukrainian pilots, it remains unclear where the planes would actually come from.
The Polish PM also had bad news for Kiev regarding the replacements for Patriot air defense systems damaged or destroyed by Russian missile strikes.
“Just as we don’t have enough F-16 fighters, we can't hand over our Patriot systems to Ukraine for the same reason,” Morawiecki said, adding that it was important for other countries that had Patriots “to share them with Ukraine as soon as possible.”
Patriots and F-16s are the latest “game-changer” weapons Kiev has demanded from the West to bolster its forces’ combat capabilities against Russia, especially in the light of its planned counteroffensive.
The Ukrainian government has already received German Leopard and British Challenger tanks, US-made HIMARS rocket launchers, a variety of towed and self-propelled NATO artillery, as well as portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft rockets.
- Poland, meanwhile, has become a hub for arms supplies to Ukraine from other countries and a training ground for Ukrainian soldiers.
- The US and the EU have also provided direct financial aid to Kiev to keep its government functioning.
- Russia has warned that military aid to Kiev makes Western countries de facto direct participants in the conflict, and said that foreign weapons systems would be treated as legitimate targets on the battlefield."
PRESIDENTS' DAYS: Biden will visit Poland from Feb. 20 through Feb. 22...Putin in Moscow for Annual Address to Federation Assembly
✓ First
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"The President of the United States of America flies into Poland this month. Not to Germany or France or even the UK. There is great symbolism in this gesture, which goes further than Washington merely showing solidarity to the front-line states in Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is emblematic of a trend which has seen Europe’s geopolitical fulcrum shift eastwards.
Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed the impotence of the western-European establishment
Once upon a time Europe’s centre of gravity was west of the Elbe. This was underlined by the reality of the Cold War, by economic might, by western Europe’s military ascendancy reinforced by the United States’ physical presence, and by the western focus on European integration.
This remained so in the early post-Cold War era with central and eastern European states flocking to join the European communities. The asymmetry was reinforced culturally as an increasingly hegemonic western-led European Union spread its integrationist and progressive values across central and eastern Europe with little regard for national traditions, cultures and, more importantly, local peoples’ wishes. The result has been a stand-off in recent years between the cultural and political alliance of Visegrad states (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) and western member states intent on maintaining a vision of post-nationalism that arguably disguises western dominance.
Poland has emerged as the spokesman of the Visegrad states. It has the EU’s fifth largest population (38 million); its sixth biggest economy; and has a dynamic pro-Nato, pro-US foreign and defence policy. This contrasts with the incessant and fruitless French-led wishful thinking about a common European foreign and security policy, and its desire for a European army. Poland has been increasingly forceful in contesting and counterbalancing the EU’s western domination. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and Poland’s robust support of Kiev contrasts with Macron’s ambivalence and Scholz’s evasiveness. . ."
On Sunday
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Duda: Russia can win in Ukraine without urgent help from the West
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Russia can win the conflict with Ukraine if the countries supporting Kyiv do not urgently send weapons to it, Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper.
✓ Then, there's this report two days ago: Ukraine will lose without "urgent help" from the West, Polish President Andrzej Duda says
Russia may win the conflict in Ukraine if the Kiev government isn’t supplied with Western weapons in the coming weeks, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said.
During an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro on Saturday, Duda was asked if he thought the Russians could achieve victory in Ukraine.
"Yes, they can, if Ukraine doesn’t receive help very urgently," the Polish leader replied.
The Kiev authorities "don't have modern military infrastructure, but they have people," he explained.
"If we do not send military equipment to Ukraine in the coming weeks, [Russia’s President Vladimir] Putin may win. He can win and we don’t know where he’ll stop," Duda warned.
His comments didn’t go unnoticed by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who took to Telegram on Saturday to point out that even if Western weapons are supplied to Ukraine hurriedly – they won’t be able to change the outcome of the conflict.
The Kiev government and its foreign backers are "condemned" to defeat, she insisted, adding that the arms deliveries "won’t help you. They’ll only make things worse."
"Repentance for what they have done is the only way out for the West," Zakharova wrote.
✓ Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that NATO members, who in January promised to send dozens of main battle tanks to Ukraine, have developed "sudden misgivings" about fulfilling the pledge due, apparently, to not having enough armor to spare.
Germany said that 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks will arrive in Ukraine in late March. Berlin also announced that it was buying up almost 190 decommissioned Leopard 1s to be refurbished and sent to the front.
Poland, which has been one of the biggest backers of Ukraine among EU states, vowed to provide its neighbor with 14 Leopard 2s and 60 of its modified Soviet-era T-72 tanks.
However, such countries as the Netherlands and Denmark, which had been pressuring Germany to send its armor to Ukraine, are now claiming that they themselves can’t part with any of their Leopard 2s. Finland said it may only supply "a few" tanks, but most likely only after it joins NATO.
Western countries have also ruled out delivering F-16 fighter jets, a new demand made by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
On Thursday, the deputy head of Zelensky’s office, Igor Zhovkva, complained to Bloomberg that the Kiev forces had "like almost zero ammunition" left due to the high intensity of fighting with the Russians in the Donbass area."
“Entering the G20 would show that, with such support, a [post-]communist country is able to become one of the fastest developing countries in the world within 30 years,” he said. According to World Bank data, Poland recorded the second largest GDP growth in 1990-2019 among the world’s top 40 economies.
As per the "Lived Change Index", the Chinese people have witnessed amazing prosperity. Very interesting metric. pic.twitter.com/CLlShmjdRw
— Gaurav Dalmia (@gdalmiathinks) June 20, 2021
06 March 2022
PROXY WARS BY THE WEST IN THE UKRAINE:
Intro: The Biden Administration needs $6 Billion more. . .
White House weighs 3-way deal to get fighter jets to Ukraine
Poland wants to donate its old MiGs to Ukraine. But there’s a catch — it needs U.S. jets
Poland wants to donate its old MiGs to Ukraine. But there’s a catch — it needs U.S. jets.
The U.S. remains in discussions with Poland to potentially backfill their fleet of fighter planes if Warsaw decides to transfer its used MiG-29s to Ukraine, four U.S. officials tell POLITICO.
The ongoing talks, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleads with Congress for help, underscore the frantic push to find weapons to equip Ukrainian forces as they continue to fight off the massive Russian invasion.
As Poland weighed sending its warplanes to Ukraine last week, Warsaw asked the White House if the Biden administration could guarantee it would provide them with U.S.-made fighter jets to fill the gap. The White House said it would look into the matter.
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