US Army trucks belonging to the 82nd Airborne Division deploy to Poland
Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook July 19, 2022
While Western governments and the Western media continue clinging to the hope of an eventual “victory” for Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, the “frontline” is quietly being moved back to western Ukraine and even Poland just across the border. Recent pledges by NATO as well as arms deliveries this year and next appear to be headed in the direction of using Poland as the next battering ram with which US-led NATO will use against Russia.
More immediately, Poland could serve as a springboard for launching a NATO incursion into Ukraine, not necessarily to confront Russian forces directly, but to establish a “buffer zone” in western Ukraine just as the US and NATO-ally Turkey did in Syria.
The Build Up Continues
Poland has hosted a build-up of US troops since as early as the beginning of February 2022. US state media Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in their February 5, 2022 article, “US Soldiers Arriving In Europe To Reinforce NATO Amid Russian Buildup,” noted the movement of US troops to Europe and specifically Poland as well as the transfer of US troops in Germany to Romania which also shares a border with Ukraine.
More recently, a Retuers article, “US to boost military presence in Europe as NATO bolsters its eastern flank,” would note:
US President Joe Biden pledged more American troops, warplanes and warships for Europe on Wednesday as NATO agreed the biggest strengthening of its deterrents since the Cold War in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The article also mentioned Poland specifically, stating:
The United States will also create a new permanent army headquarters in Poland, which was immediately welcomed by Polish president Andrzej Duda, as Warsaw long sought a permanent US military base on its soil. “It is a fact that strengthens our safety a lot … in the difficult situation which we are in,” Duda said.
It should be kept in mind that similar sentiments had helped reinforce US-NATO involvement in Ukraine since 2014, ultimately precipitating the current crisis rather than strengthening any sense of “safety.”
Poland serves as both the most logical geographic location for this build-up as well as the most logical political location for it. The current Polish government has demonstrated an eagerness to play a central role in Washington’s proxy war with Russia both in terms of support for Ukraine as well as feeding heavily into the Russophobic rhetoric used to justify continued Western involvement politically.
Turkish state media in a recent article titled, “Poland takes delivery of 1st batch of US-made M1 Abrams tanks,” would note Poland’s own military build-up. In addition to hosting a growing number of US troops, Poland is purchasing the latest and most sophisticated weapons the US and its allies have on the market. The article claims:
On April 5, the country signed a contract worth nearly $4.75 billion to buy 250 MA12 SEP battle tanks from the US following a December 2020 agreement with Washington for 32 F-35 jets.
It also revealed that Poland agreed to a contract with the US on the purchase of 116 more used M1 Abrams tanks.
The Abrams tanks will operate near Poland’s eastern border “to deter an aggressor,” Błaszczak stressed, according to PAP.
The article also notes Poland’s acquisition of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), Turkey’s Bayraktar drones, as well as additional main battle tanks from South Korea.
NATO’s Paper Tiger in Eastern Europe
The once vaunted weapon systems produced by the US and its allies have suffered tremendously in recent years as M1 Abrams used by Saudi Arabia found themselves outmatched and destroyed in Yemen and more recently Russian air defenses have eliminated Turkish-built Bayraktar drones from Ukraine’s airspace while Russian long-range weapons have begun hunting and destroying US-built HIMARS on Ukrainian battlefields.
Apparently these weapons systems are not as formidable as advertised. The secret to their success until relatively recently had been Washington’s ability to carefully pick its adversaries, avoiding hostilities with nations or organizations capable of undermining the illusion of military superiority the United States attempts to cultivate.
The loss of M1 Abrams in Yemen by Saudi Arabia became so concerning, US policymakers questioned the wisdom of providing replacements. The Brookings Institution in a 2016 piece titled, “Is selling tanks to Saudi Arabia such a good idea?,” would point out:
The State Department this week notified Congress of an impending sale of 153 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks and twenty heavy tank recovery vehicles plus assorted ammunition, weapons and other kit to the Saudi army. Buried in the fine print of the notification is the statement that twenty of the Abrams tanks are intended to replace tanks destroyed in combat. The only place Saudi tanks are in combat are along the Saudi–Yemeni border in the Kingdom’s southwest where the Houthi rebels have been surprisingly effective in striking targets inside Saudi Arabia since the start of the war sixteen months ago. It’s probably a good bet that more that just 20 Saudi tanks have been damaged. The Kingdom has an inventory of 400 Abrams.
Meanwhile in Ukraine, even pro-Western media organizations including Al Jazeera in their article, “What do we know about Ukraine’s use of Turkish Bayraktar drones?,” have admitted the limits of hyped weapons like the Turkish-built Bayrakter. The article notes:
…given Russia’s strength of forces, what impact drones might have in Ukraine?
“It will very well depend on Russian air defences. Drones like the TB2 are vulnerable to anti-air defence systems. To be effective, they need to be employed in a savvy way, in coordination with other electronic warfare systems that ‘blind’ enemy radars and through appropriate tactics,” [Mauro Gilli, senior researcher in military technology and international security at ETH Zurich] said.
“However, against capable enemies, these technologies and tactics might not be sufficient. In Libya, Russian forces figured out effective ways to counter Turkish tactics and shoot down their drones. The same [has been] observed in Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh,” he added.
With Retuers reporting the alleged demise of two US-made Ukrainian HIMARS in early July and Newsweek reporting the alleged destruction of an additional HIMARS in mid-July, the most recent “wonder weapon” promoted by Western governments and their media appears just as vulnerable and underwhelming as other advanced Western arms touted recently.
The build-up of all these advanced systems in Poland, while promoted by NATO leadership and the Western media as necessary against “aggression,” represents yet another substitute for the absolute fundamentals that truly underwrite national and regional security.
What Poland Actually Needs for Actual Security
The Russian Federation has not only demonstrated an understanding of these fundamentals, it has put them into practice. Even Western commentators have begun taking note.
A June 2022 piece published by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) titled, “The Return of Industrial Warfare,” would convincingly argue that relatively mundane munitions and military equipment produced in large scale are far more essential to victory on the battlefield than a focus on “efficiency” through sophisticated precision munitions built in relatively small quantities. Basic small arms ammunition and conventional artillery shells were among the examples cited – munitions that are absolutely essential, needed in vast quantities, and are having a far greater impact on the battlefield than the high-tech weapons shipped by the West to Ukraine.
It could also be argued that diplomacy and economic cooperation pursued by the Russian Federation with Europe prior to the events now unfolding in Ukraine reduced the ability and/or desire of at least some European nations to follow Washington down the path toward dangerous escalation.
But above all, Poland and other European nations (if national security is an actual priority) require independent foreign policies – policies that reflect the best interests of each respective state rather than those of an unelected bureaucracy heavily influenced by a small handful of corporate-financier interest not only in Europe, but across the Atlantic in Washington and on Wall Street.
It should be pointed out that among these select few special interests are arms manufacturers who thrive especially when conflict, not peace and stability (or prosperity for everyone else), prevail.
A focus on these latter most factors may make the necessity of focusing heavily on military factors less of a priority.
Also key to regional security is promoting regional stability. Europe’s role in aiding or even just remaining apathetic to US political interference along and far beyond the borders of the European Union created the instability requiring constant military spending in the first place. Whether it is the flow of refugees fleeing decimated nations in the Middle East and North Africa targeted by NATO aggression, or a deteriorating socio-economic crisis following US-sponsored regime change in Eastern Europe, Europe’s inability to address the “causes” of the crises it faces results in ever-growing investments in addressing the urgent “effects” that follow.
Since Poland’s current leadership is focusing on none of the above, while projecting recent policy decisions as the bolstering of security and safety for the Polish people, the Polish government is in fact instead escalating tensions even further on behalf of Washington all while relying on weapons systems and a strategic approach proven right now on the battlefields of Ukraine and elsewhere as wholly inadequate.
Only time will tell if Polish and other European leadership continue down this self-destructive path where they, along with Ukraine, carry the full burden of Washington’s proxy war against Russia, or if they decide to pursue actual security, stability, and prosperity. If they chose the latter they are likely to find they won’t require massive investments into the military means of addressing conflict, because the “enemies” they imagine they would use these means against, would likely be more interested in trade.
Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
israel bombing oalestine and syria daily
were is Putin ?
this terrorism must be stopped
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/07/22/686036/Syria-Israel-strike-Damascus
sorry forgot this
The writer is a fantasist.
Poles were always troublemakers in
european history . they were only one
time good for europa when their king
Osibiesky saved europa at viena from
turkish victory . but now we have the
turks everywhere thanks to our traitors
and sleepy sheeple .
Russia’s missiles should take America’s war to America’s homeland.
‘Modern day’ war involves watching it on tv and reading about it on the internet, then making out you know what ‘they’ are doing.
From the ‘government’s’ point of view, you’re nothing, so they don’t really give a toss what you think.
You’d have to be senile to think the ‘war’ didn’t begin months ago and won’t end until either russia is dead or you are dead.
If you’re of ‘fighting age’ then you better start thinking about how to avoid ‘representing your country’, because they’ll run out of cannon fodder sooner rather than later, and you’ll be next up to bat.
Of course, instead of going off and murdering your counterpart on the ‘other side’, you could be a patriot and execute the ‘government’.
GREAT MOSCOW CALIPH HE UP TREE NO COME DOWN!
The poles would deserve it. They were the trigger for WW2. Time they learnt a lesson.
It is difficult to be patient with the Poles. In the early 1980s, they had a ship building industry and a steel manufacturing industry that had under-priced British steel. Then along came Lech Wałesa and his trade union Solidarnosc, took them all out on strike, and both industries collapsed.
The ambition of Solidarnoc was to free Poland from communist rule. That was the ambition of Hungary, too. But the Hungarians were working their butts off: Free enterprise had began to be tolerated. Hungarian state coffers were soon empty, but the people’s pockets were soon bulging. They had no intention of going on strike; they were making money! And they advised the Poles to work rather than fan their political egos. That fell on deaf ears, and the Poles were soon reduced to rely on soup kitchens. Then hordes of young people went ‘to the West’ to do work uncongenial to the natives. They had to feed their families to feed at home!
And now look what they are doing! They are forgetting the need to plan a realistic future, and droppinng everyything to go to war against Russia. Oh, well. You cannot help Stupid.
It is completely in line with the plans of the psychopaths and self-proclaimed gods, nothing new under the sun.
The self appointed Prophet of doom, the French, oh sorry the Algerian Talmudic Jew Jacques Attali keeps hammering in the same message for decades, here bon appetit:
https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2022/03/frances-henry-kissinger-jacques-attali.html#more
Never thought they’d EVER be surpassed in the ‘Stupidity Sweepstakes’..
but Poles might be even DUMBER than THICK Brits!!!
😄😅😂🤣
lt’s fascinating to watch how the hollow men paint these fake narratives with broad brush strokes and then get their hack scribblers to back fill all the details…
thus allowing them leeway for ‘rollback’ and of course the seeding of the ‘next’ predictive ‘narrative’…
A Stanislavsky workshop… replete with third rate hams…
Poles are the scum of the Europe, too much jew-blood in their veins.
How long before the Poles discover what the Koreans discovered, which is that a US army base always needs a good supply of whores?
But then again, with the new woke US army they had better get male ones.
Just remember a whole lot Jews come from Poland.
Abe Foxman, the former ADL Jew, is a WHITE POLISH PIG. NOT A SEMITE.
The vaccine queen WALENSKY another fake Jew Polish PIG.
The worst Jews came out of Poland.
The West doesn’t see that it is a hostage to fortune. The West thinks plans to a use Poland as jumping off point for a preacekeeping’ force in Western Ukraine. The Poles are on board with that because they think it’s going to be a territory grab for themselves.
The problem is that the West has then tied itself to Poland … and Polish leaders are exactly the same sort of bellicose ultranationalist crazies as they were in the 1930’s. The chances are high that the Poles, thinking that they are fully backed by NATO, will attack Belarus (which some have already advocated doing. There have already been border incidents).
Poland again?
These people have no imagination.
Black Pete, well said!
i wish one day west polen will be part of Germany and east part will be part of Russia, that is how it should have been made in the first place, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Period.
Independent Poland was always cancer to Europe – after all, poles were responsible for WWII and now they are natural allies of world jewry and zio-merica with their hatred towards Germans and Russians right in the centre of Europe…Poles can masquerade with their ostentatious “conservatism” and “catholicism” all they want but they are nothing more than cancerous zionist bastartized 50:50 jews and Balto-Slavs. They literally stole half of their land from Germany.
@ RED FLINTSTONE
all american wars against mexico,
guatemala, nicaragua, cuba, chile,
panama,1.+2.worldwar against japan+
germany, vietnam,libya, afganistan,
serbia ,were not justified brought no
merits only criminal governments
to power with criminal jewish CIA/FBI/
Pentagon + gigantic money destruction .
oky, therefore they now have the gold
of germany + of Gadaffi . but it is surely
now in Rothschilds jewmafia hands .
@ ANTON
BRzsinsky was a typical polish russia hater .
Poland should be like in old Zars time
part of russia with Ukraine . that was best
time for them !
@ PETER PETHERINGTON
same opinion had already indian guru
Bagwan/Osho in the 80ties .
and he was a wise man + knew the
diferent characteristic of his pupils .
Please Mr Putin a couple of tactical nukes on the following:
Kiev
London
Washington
Tel Aviv
Warsaw (for good measure)
Many thanks
in any case i praise the weakness + inefectiveness
of german military since they are anyway servants
+ arselickers of jew globalist USZIOUK + therefore
traitors to german people !
@anton: ‘They literally stole half of their land from Germany.’
And the other half from Russia!
This whole conflict is being set up to be a meat grinder to slaughter as many Europeans as possible.
If John III Sobieski had not risked leaving his country undefended, by mobilizing the Winged Hussars against the Ottoman, then Vienna would have fallen. The victory of the Kingdom of Poland and Duchy of Lithuania over the Turks in 1683 cannot be underestimated in its importance to European history. Had Vienna been lost, all of the major European trade routes, which converged on the city, from east to west and northward throughout the Germanic states, would have thenceforth fed the Ottoman war exchequer. From there, military control would, inevitably, have extended.
The Ottoman were thwarted by the numerically greatest cavalry charge known to history. Had the Turks won, bear this in mind – the royal dynasty of the Ottoman Empire was the Osmond family.
Imagine Europe being ruled over by the bloodthirsty tyrants, Donny and Marie, or worse still, by the evil Sultan, Little Jimmy.
Thank God for Poland.
Sophie Johnson
Exactly, and they even stolen some places from Czechoslovakia (parts in northern Carpathian mountains), they never played fair game during their history, their behavioral patterns remind me of some of the typical jewish manners – greediness, materialism, thug tribal mentality, unwillingness to assimilate and even hostility to host country’s folks. There is a reason why polish migrants are generally unpopular abroad. They are very good in licking dirty anus of their big daddy – american neocon apparatus. They play their good goy role very well.
Sophie Johnson: those industries had to collapse as a prerequisite to joining the EU. It can take decades to prepare a country for EU membership. My guess is that the UK left the EU so they could rejoin an EU super state.
@ooo: ‘From the ‘government’s’ point of view, you’re nothing, so they don’t really give a toss what you think. ‘ You are obviously right.
But it is a bit jaded of you to say thus: ‘”.making out you know what ‘they’ are doing’ ” as a characterisation of people who voice their insights about the goings on in the world. We voice our insights to discuss them with the minority that is not misinformed by the MSM. To do this is, I quite seriously think, nothing short of a compulsion.
@ anton:
Interesting remarks! It’s probably because of the things you cite that there were so many Polish jokes around until fairly recently, when jokes fell out of vogue for fear of prosecution by the offended. 🙂
@ Carl Jones: ‘…t hose industries had to collapse as a prerequisite to joining the EU.’
Surely you are not saying that the EU had need of a state with a collapsed economy, and that the Poles were knowingly collapsing theirs to get into the EU? If not, then what are you saying?
@andyay: ‘Thank God For Poland.’
Yes. But you forgot to mention that the garrisons of Holy Roman Empire and of the Habsburg monarchy also fought that battle, having succeeded for two months to keep the beseiging Ottomans out of Vienna. That was before the Polish garrison, led by King Jan III Sobieski ,arrived. But it is unequivocal the participation of the latter was crucial in this, the decisive strike against the Ottomans.
@Carl Jones: ‘those industries had to collapse as a prerequisite to joining the EU. ‘
What do you mean? Did Solidarnosc, led by Lech Walesa, intentionally send its workforce on strike to destroy Poland’s ship-building and steel manufacturing industries because it wanted admission to the EU? Or do you mean that the EU would not have accepted Poland’s application for EU membership if it had not destroyed those industries? Neither alternative seems plausible to me.
Consider this: Leh Walesa was celebrated by the West as a great anti-Soviet leader. The Queen of England invited him to Buckingham Palace soon after Poland was on its knees, having begun to ‘benefit’ from the ‘short term pain, long term gain’ wisdom of George Soros, who persuaded Poland to indebt itself massively to the IMF and the World Bank. Poland could not have begun rise from its knees if its noble workforce had not upped sticks and fled to the West for work, for none was to be had at home. (Has Poland recovered from its massive debt yet?)
In short, Leh Walea was a stooge of the West. It is there that a Poland with two major industries was not acceptable. At that time, the prospect of EU membership for Poland had not even arisen. That did not come until some 20 years later, along with the membership a slew of Central/Eastern European countries.
Sophie Johnson on July 22, 2022 at 6:43 pm:
“@anton: ‘They literally stole half of their land from Germany.’
And the other half from Russia!”
It sounds like some ‘god” must have promised this land to them…?
I remember a Shimon Peres speech in which he boasted about the success of the jews in increasing their ownership of Poland.
A New Waterloo is on the horizon.
poland idiots will lure europa into
atom war what suits the USZIOUK .
@ Sophie Johnson
Actually, I didn’t forget to mention the contribution of the Holy Roman Empire in vanquishing the Ottoman Turks at Vienna. I deliberately omitted any mention of the Hapsburgs, just to have a poke at and annoy, either one, of yourself, or Anton. Forgive me but I thought that the discourse needed some counter-balance. There are an awful lot worse out there, than the Poles.
If a people really were the image, known of them, to unflattering histories, would we not all stand condemned, by someone’s measure, somewhere?
“Poles might be even DUMBER than THICK Brits!!! ”
If it comes to being thick, you can’t beat the Paddies. They take in so many Ukes that they can’t even house their fellow Paddies any more.
So how long before Thick Paddies start catching the boat to England leaving the Ukes to take over all their houses?
A German friend of mine refers to the Poles as the niggers of Europe…
must confess.. that made me chuckle..
@andyay: ‘I deliberately omitted any mention of the Hapsburgs, just to have a poke at and annoy, either one, of yourself, or Anton…’
I apologise. I should be more respectful of sensitivities. And it is really decent of you to have ‘fessed up. Paxi. 🙂
@ Sophie
No need to apologise, Sophie. It was me, who was being contrary and censorial. I’m sorry.
I confess that I was actually thinking about the ravishingly beautiful Polish woman who works in my local LIDL. Queuing up is so much less onerous, when she’s at the checkout. I decided, therefore, to defend the Polish.
Thank you for your graciousness. Paxi. Pixi. Polski.
Chesterton, one wonders then what your friend calls the Albanians..