{"id":286200,"date":"2024-04-23T04:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286200"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:40:32","slug":"poland-were-ready-to-host-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286200","title":{"rendered":"Poland: We\u2019re ready to host nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claudia Chiappa \u2013 Politico Apr 22, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Polish President Duda with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Polish President Andrzej Duda said Poland is \u201cready\u201d to host nuclear weapons on its territory if NATO decides to reinforce its eastern flank.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is increasingly militarizing the K\u00f6nigsberg oblast (Kaliningrad). Recently, it has been relocating its nuclear weapons to Belarus,\u201d Duda said in an interview published Monday by Polish outlet Fakt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons as part of nuclear sharing on our territory as well, in order to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready for it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President Vladimir Putin has made\u00a0veiled nuclear threats<\/a>\u00a0toward the West, even\u00a0stashing<\/a>\u00a0atomic weapons in Belarus, which borders NATO members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.<\/p>\n

Duda said nuclear sharing has been the subject of talks between Poland and the U.S. “for some time.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve already talked about it several times. I must admit that when asked about it, I declared our readiness,” he said.<\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov responded<\/a> Monday that Russia “will take all the necessary retaliatory steps to guarantee our security,” according to state-owned news service RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n

Duda, who recently traveled to New York and met Republican 2024 candidate Donald Trump<\/a>, spoke fondly of the former president, saying that the two have \u201ca lot of common topics.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a politician with whom I directly cooperated with the United States for four years when he was the president of the United States,\u201d Duda said. \u201cI want to emphasize very strongly that we have been friends since then. I really like talking to him, because he is an extremely interesting personality and has a lot of experience, both political and business.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Ukraine first talked about joining NATO, Moscow feared that it might one-day host U.S. nuclear weapons. This was partly what prompted Putin\u2019s Special Military Operation. Now Poland, also right on Russia\u2019s doorstep, has signaled its readiness to host western nukes <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286230,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286200\/revisions\/286230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}