Press TV – Apr 25, 2024
Russia says upcoming talks in Poland to possibly host US nuclear weapons in the country pose a real threat to the nation.
On Thursday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said he and the prime minister were scheduled to hold talks on May 1.
Duda said he had invited Donald Tusk for talks on deploying nuclear weapons from NATO states in the country.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on the same day that announcing the talks on hosting NATO nukes was a provocative gesture by the Polish government.
By escalating the tensions, the Russian official said, Duda and Tusk were pushing the nation into a “very dangerous game.”
“If they follow the path of further escalation – and this is how the discussions can be assessed, these so far verbal games with nuclear weapons – then a further round of tension will occur. And in general, this game is very dangerous, its consequences may be hard to predict,” the senior Russian diplomat warned.
The Kremlin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov also responded to Duda’s declaration. “This game is very dangerous, and its consequences may be unpredictable.”
He said Russia’s Defense Ministry will “analyze the situation… and take all the necessary retaliatory steps to guarantee our safety.”
On the same lines, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said any US nuclear missiles in Poland could become targets in the event of a Russia-NATO war.
“It is not difficult to assume that if American nuclear weapons appear on Polish territory, the corresponding objects will immediately join the list of legitimate targets for destruction in the case of direct military conflict with NATO.”
In the meantime, Duda has reiterated his position that Poland would be ready to host American nukes, prompting Tusk to say he would like a clarification from the president.
Since entering office in December, Tusk, a centrist, has embarked on a series of reforms and a purge of staff associated with the former nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party. That has sparked backlash from Duda, a former PiS member who was brought to office with the party’s backing and who has offered presidential pardons to jailed PiS lawmakers.
However, on matters pertaining to Poland’s military, Duda and Tusk appear to be following the same pro-US policies.
“It’s obvious to me that we must speak with one voice and that our aspirations must be the same. We want Poland to be as safe as possible,” Duda said.
The Polish prime minister, according to the country’s laws, is responsible for government decision-making, while the president is the head of state and supreme representative of Poland internationally.
To allow US nuclear weapons to be deployed in the country, it would require new laws and approval by both officials.
Meanwhile, Poland is not only a NATO and European Union member, but it also has a long history of war and violence with Russia. The war in Ukraine has plunged the already deteriorated relations between Russia and Poland, Ukraine’s largest neighbor on its western border, to its lowest levels.
Also on Thursday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, announced that dozens of the Russia’s nukes deployed in the country were in place and ready for combat.
Last year, Russia deployed its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which borders Poland, as a signal of deterrence to the West.
So, let’s give Iran, Cuba, the Palestine’s, Ireland some nuclear weapons. It seems to work for North Korea.
All this could have been avoided if the West kept its word not to expand NATO eastwards. Russia should have gotten all this down in writing instead of relying on only the verbal word of the U.S.A. When has America kept its word? Ask the Indians whose land they stole.
This spread of nuclear weapons into Europe will continue until Russia says to the US something like its odds of success are 5/1 at best. For every US nuke that hits us we will drop one on them where it came from, one on their capital and three on yours.
Russian moved nukes to Bialorussia already, closer then ever to the West.
The sense of Russia being the enemy – or indeed the redeemer – in this black and white binary universe may of course be traced back to the time it was the “bad guy” in the Cold War. I recent pasted the dialogue between Antony Sutton and an interviewer showing how the USA was effectively arming the North Vietnamese via the Soviets.
I believe if one establishes the artificial subsidised nature of the Soviet Union, then I don’t believe its rebirth as basically, Russia, makes any difference to the artificial tensions and proxy war in Ukraine we observe today. One could draw on many issues in support of this idea, such as commonality on the scamdemic and the jabbery. Anyone who believes Putin is some sort of antithesis to the corrupt west is a binary thinker who watches the world like an old black and white TV.
I have been reading a most excellent book; “Shadow of Power”, by James Perloff. It is a story of the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, but much more. I read the account of the Korean War today. Even though I’m used to ne’er do welling among TPTB, the truth of this totally unnecessary war will make your blood boil. It was a totally contrived war that needed the active help of all major powers to get it going, and so justify the notion of a United Nations peace keeping force. I’ve read similar before. I needed no further affirmation of the evil nature of the international “leadership” of the world, but the clarity of the evil is a clear as the lighting fixture falling to the ground in front of Truman. (And by one of those synchronicities that cause one to realise one is walking the along the right path in life, I recall the American president was also called Truman…)
“Shadow of Power” can be found on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org//
And if you look, you can find a PDF versions somewhere. Just read the section on the Korean War if you read nothing else.