How ordinary Poles are preparing for a Russian invasion
How ordinary Poles are preparing for a Russian invasion
After the election of Donald Trump, ordinary Poles fear they could be in Moscow's sights.
The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.
That's... not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.
calm down dude; who would invade Poland anyway
An attack on Poland would immediately invoke NATO Article 5, drawing in the combined forces of continental Europe, the UK, the US and Turkey. The world wouldn't need to worry about it going nuclear, conventional forces would have the Russians back over the Belarusian border by lunchtime.
Gammelfisch said it better than I could, but what makes you think Trump would feel any type of responsibility to follow through with a treaty signed by a president that isn't him and was almost 100 years ago?
Mango Fucking Mussolini would abandon Poland like the British and French in 1939. Fuck Russia and the MAGAts, this German supports the European NATO members and especially our neighbors to the east. If the motherfucking Muscovites attack, I will request to be reinstated and do whatever I can to stop the filthy bastards.
Mango Mussolini 😂 😂 😂
Unfortunately that's not necessarily what article 5 implies. It only states that the member nations will respond, not how exactly they will respond.
Drones, teach them to fly drones.
I just imagined a future where drones are so pervasive and advanced against current defenses, the only real defence would be a electromagnetic pulse. Even losing all other electronic means of communication, infrastructure, etc., at least the explosive and chemical weapons death swarm that was coming just fell to the ground. And guns and gunpowder will still work.
(Losing most all electricity is probably not worth the trade off, just a short thought)The stuff that the Brits recently tested is exactly an EMP pulse, though directional.
The thing is, you can harden the drones against that.
Wide dispersal EMPs are typically not that effective against smaller devices so drones with autonomous backups would be hard to effect in anything but a small area, even with a high altitude nuclear EMP.
Thought crossed my mind.
Canada's new Liberal government, under threat of annexation from the US, is advancing a civilian disarmament agenda.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Source? I can’t find any mentions of gun control from Carney.
I know Trudeau went a bit hard on it but Trudeau’s gone
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-plan-border-rcmp-bail-1.7507110
Carney said a Liberal government would reinvigorate the assault-style firearm buyback program launched in 2020, shortly after the mass shooting in Portapique, N.S., which left 22 people dead.
Can't you guys just lure American forces into the woods and attack them like Ewoks?
That's top secret defense information! We have a leak.
It's not total disarmament, hockey sticks are effective weapons.
Poland is going to be the monkey wrench in the gears for Putin's plan.
I'm big on Poland.
They're building bases close to the Finnish border. I almost feel sorry for them, but not really.
Joking aside though, if a new front opens it's highly likely it'll be here. Our politicians are already ensuring we have a plan, and ..we'll, we do.
If they want to fight us in the forests again I don't think it'll end like Putin thinks it will, no matter if it's summer or winter.
Their drones won't be as effective, and while they may well have a larger army now than when they started that'd change pretty quickly I believe.
Poles ready to defend the country if those fears become a reality? A recent poll found that only 10.7% of adults said they would join the army as volunteers in the event of war, and a third said they would flee.
Understandable, but also kind of sad. Poland exists because its people fought back against authoritarian bastards.
Poland exists because its people fought back against authoritarian bastards
Poland kinda exists because it was saved from genocide by the red army. After that, it existed as an independent country in which its language and culture were maintained and supported by the government. You may argue it exists in a different form after the 1980s Solidarity movement, but Poland very much existed before that and that's a consequence of Soviet (not just Russian, but also Ukrainian, Kazakh and other nationalities) soldiers who gave their life in the fight against Nazism. 27 million soviets died in total in WW2.
Even in the 1910s, when Poland obtained its independence from the Russian Empire, it did so thanks to the Bolsheviks creating a constitution granting all peoples of the former Russian empire the right to self-determination and unilateral secession, not because an autoctonous Polish movement forced any government to give it independence.
What historical events are you talking about when you refer to Poland existing because they fought against authoritarianism?
Edit: some people have brought up comments about the role of Polish resistance in WW2. My point was not at all to diminish the valiant efforts of the Polish antifascist partisans, most of whom I consider heroes of the struggle against Nazism. I just think it's unfair to erase the role of the Red Army of the Soviet Union in the existence of modern Poland. Without it, probably Poland (as many other eastern-European countries) would be the ashes of Nazi genocide and colonization.
Here's how the Soviets save the Poles:
This might be the most backward brain rot comment I've ever read. Just gonna rapid fire through these...
- Poland existed for a long ass time, even when it wasn't on the map. It had no less than 6 armed conflicts and rebellions against the Russian Empire.
- Poland lost 6 million people in WW2, 17% of their population; by far the largest of any country. If you want to play who-suffered-most they're getting gold.
- Maybe they would have lost less had the Soviets not joined the Germans in slicing up their country. They literally staked out what parts of eastern Europe they would own...
- Polish independence was gained through the collapse of the Russian Empire; Moscow was in no position to claim control over anything anyway
- Lenin renegged on that "self determination" just a few years later in 1919 when they marched the Red Army into Poland and annexed Kresy
There's a reason a Pole will tell you never trust a Russian, they've never been grateful vassals. I don't subscribe to America's red scare propoganda but you're an idiot to whitewash Soviet foreign policy.
Donald Tusk, it’s like some sort of a Donald Trump and Musk hybrid strain
Nice play on words(not really, but close) As much as I dislike all three at least he has a spine
Fuck the blyats.