In what would serve as the launching of the biggest arms race in generations, Polish ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is urging the European Union to embark on a process of massive-scale nuclear armament, insisting the union needs to be a “superpower” with a nuclear arsenal on par with Russia’s, the largest in the world.
Analysts were presenting the call as a reflection of President Trump’s relative lack of hawkishness toward Russia, though in practice Poland’s right-wing government has been agitating for EU-wide moves against Russia for awhile, and this is just a continuation of that, albeit a really big one.
Two European Union members already have nuclear arms, Britain and France, though Britain is in the process of withdrawing from the union. The arsenal called for by Kaczynski would be 20-fold the size of France’s, and would cost multiple trillions of dollars.
The suggestion will definitely not be taken seriously in and of itself, with anti-nuclear sentiment strong across much of the union, and little appetite for bankrupting the continent building such an arsenal. That Poland has designs on such an arsenal, however, may suggest that there is a risk of further nuclear proliferation on the continent.
I used to live in Poland and I love normal Polish people, but their political leadership have been crap for centuries.
Yes, and it is Polands curse to be governed by such a febrile witless ruling class. Whether Communist or Globalist or Nationalist, Polish “leaders” have been atrociously poor.
Kościuszko was not crap.
Good thing, from a nuclear perspective, that the British are leaving, and the French are about as likely to hand over the keys to their nuclear arsenal as they would be to hand over the Louvre. Not going to happen.
These Pollacks are simply nutz… Who is going to pay for this ILLEGAL nuclear arsenal? Where will it be located, and under whose control?
Even the most rabid Yankistani politico would be aghast at the idea of Warsaw being a nuclear weapons state. It would like giving a flamethrower to a pyromaniac.
Warsaw is a ghetto for dumb white humans.
It will be under control of the new EU Emperor, of course.
Poland is the worst place on earth, filled with Nazi wanabees.
oh look, another lunatic named Kaczynski. Must be in the blood.
What about the US nukes in Holland, Turkey, Germany….? That should be enough to blow up the rest of us with no help from the moaning Poles who never stop pushing for more violence and seem to be recycling their mad leaders from years ago to forge ahead.
Poland doubles down on igniting world wars.
Always whining, arrogant and out of their minds (while invading all other European countries en masse)…
Kaczynski is right. If the EU is to be a sovereign empire, it must have a huge nuclear arsenal, and must take control of the French arsenal. They need a general draft too. Doing these things will solve their economic and internal cohesion problems as well, since the EU will have to acquire the full Money Power in order to fund an imperial military force, and they will have to print enough money to banish deflation for a very long time. And drafting all those unemployed Greeks into the EU Army will save Greece economically since the soldiers will have to be paid.