{"id":288368,"date":"2024-05-28T06:18:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288368"},"modified":"2024-05-30T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:42:12","slug":"poland-unveils-new-iron-curtain-to-protect-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288368","title":{"rendered":"Poland unveils new Iron Curtain to protect Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Jackson \u2013 The Telegraph May 27, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Poland has unveiled plans for a line of anti-tank ditches, bunkers and minefields along its borders with Belarus and Russia.<\/p>\n

Donald Tusk<\/a>, the Polish prime minister, announced a 10 billion zloty (\u00a32 billion) defensive line to make Nato\u2019s eastern flank \u201cimpassable to a potential enemy\u201d, earlier this month, but provided few details.<\/p>\n

Visualisations released on Monday show a network of concrete anti-tank \u201chedgehogs\u201d, palisades and steel barriers integrated with earthworks along 434 miles of frontier.<\/p>\n

W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz<\/a>, Poland\u2019s defence minister, told reporters: \u201cThe \u2018East Shield\u2019 deterrence and defence plan is the largest operation to strengthen the eastern border of Poland, the eastern flank of Nato, since 1945.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be a combination of terrain conditions with fortifications and modern technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the government would also apply for European Union funding for the border wall. Work will start this year and should be completed by 2028.<\/p>\n

East Shield, dubbed the \u201cTusk line\u201d by Polish media, has been billed as a deterrent to discourage attack from Russia. The plans are said to be in collaboration with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n

It is separate from a border wall built to keep out migrants trying to cross from Belarus<\/a>. The plans show a deep network of bunkers, trenches and tank traps. Mines would only be laid if war appeared imminent.<\/p>\n

Poland shares a 130-mile frontier with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad <\/a>and a 170-mile border with Belarus<\/a>, Russia\u2019s close ally.<\/p>\n

The border with Belarus has become a security flashpoint, with thousands of migrants and refugees, mostly from the Middle East, crossing it into Europe.<\/p>\n

Mr Tusk has dubbed this a \u201chybrid war of migration\u201d facilitated by Alexander Lukashenko<\/a>, the president of Belarus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are not refugees, those are less and less migrants, families, poor people needing help,\u201d Mr Tusk added. \u201cIn 80 per cent of the cases, these are organised groups of men, aged 18 to 30, very aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the weather warms, Poland is seeing an increase in crossings, up to 200-300 a day in May. Poland was part of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact during the Cold War but joined Nato after Communism fell in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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