“It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said.
A war between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and NATO would end with Moscow’s “inevitable defeat,” Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said Thursday.
"It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Sikorski said during a speech to the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament. “It is worth reminding about this, not to increase the sense of threat in the Russians, because NATO is a defensive pact, but to show that an attack by Russia on any of the members of the Alliance would end in its [Russia’s] inevitable defeat.”
Sikorski, who was laying out Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s vision for the new government’s foreign policy, said Russia’s military and economic potential “pales in comparison to that of the West,” as NATO has three times as many military personnel, three times the aerial resources and four times as many ships as Russia.
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Western allies and top military officials have become increasingly worried about a potential spillover of violence from Putin’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine — as the Russian leader continues to issue veiled nuclear threats toward the West and stashes atomic weapons in Belarus, which borders NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.
No shit, they can’t even win a war against a former client state. There’s no way they’d have a chance with a single former near-peer, let alone a full military alliance with the sorry state of their forces.
I really don’t want to defend Russia here, buuut realistically Ukraine would have been defeated a while ago without the constant stream of weapons and money from the west. Yes, there would possibly be some partisan / guerilla warfare still going on, but the official military would have been defeated.
What??? Countries will supply weapons to another countries fighting a mutual adversary??? No way!!!
Damn, what a shocker, we’ve never seen this sort of action before on the world stage, how will a country ever cope with their geopolitical adversary selling weapons to their enemies. THAT’S, SO UNFAIR!!!