On Tuesday, Poland’s defense minister said that the country would accept a German offer to deploy a Patriot air defense missile system on Polish territory, changing course after Warsaw rejected the idea.
Germany made the offer after a Ukrainian air defense missile landed in Polish territory, killing two people. Poland initially said it would accept but then rebuffed the offer by suggesting the Patriots should be sent to Ukraine.
Germany dismissed the idea since they are offering to deploy a Patriot system operated by German troops, so sending it to Ukraine would mean a NATO deployment in the country, risking serious escalation with Russia.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak sounded reluctant when accepting the offer on Tuesday, expressing disappointment that it won’t go to Ukraine. “Following a conversation with the German Defense Ministry, I disappointingly accepted the decision to reject support for Ukraine,” he said, according to Bloomberg.
“We are beginning working arrangements on deploying the launchers in Poland and making them part of our command system,” Blaszczak added.
Let me get this straight. Poland needs these things to defend against Ukraine missiles landing in their territory?
So … intercept stray interceptor missiles with interceptor missiles? Maybe Hungary or Moldova can launch interceptor missiles to intercept the interceptor missiles intercepting interceptor missiles. Maybe if they time it right they can propagate it all the way across Europe to the Atlantic.
yes patriot missiles all around.
GO TEAM RAYTHEON!
Attaboy Lloyd!
Are Patriot missiles still patriotic when they’re German?
they just paint them a different color
Cha ching!
“Polish Defense Minister…Blaszczak sounded reluctant when accepting the offer…expressing disappointment that it won’t go to Ukraine. ‘Following a conversation with the German Defense Ministry, I disappointingly [sic] accepted the decision to reject support for Ukraine,’he said…
…glumly sticking out his lower lip. Flanked by a phalanx of security guards, reporters say the Defense Minister then dejectedly kicked at a pebble while walking to his bullet proof glass-windowed Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan. ‘He didn’t kick it playfully, like a kid,’ confided one member of Blaszczak’s security detail, ‘With his crestfallen downturned head, it was more of a disconsolate kick – the gesture of a child, but with an ironically inverted significance. I’m sorry I can’t say it better,’ the government security guard added, ‘I’m really more at ease blowing the shit out of living things than with words.'”
WAR! God God Y’all what is it good for?! Absolutely nothing!… Say it again!
“Give me shelter, war is just a shot away”…………………..
Woa oh oh oh oh oh ooooh!
We need some new antiwar songs.
What rhymes with Raytheon?
I haven’t a clue but maybe somebody else has… 🙂
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https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?typeofrhyme=perfect&loc=thesql&Word=Raytheon