Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that Russia has been moving nuclear weapons into Belarus and said the deployment changes the “security architecture” of the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the first Russian nukes started arriving in Belarus back in June, but the deployment hadn’t been confirmed by the US or NATO. Duda made the comments at a joint press conference with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
“I was telling President (de Sousa) about the implementation of the declarations by Vladimir Putin that Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons will be moved to the territory of Belarus,” Duda said, according to The Associated Press. “Indeed, this process is taking place, we are seeing that.”
“It is changing the architecture of security in our immediate neighborhood, but also of the eastern flank of NATO, at the same time. So in fact it is changing the situation for all of the alliance,” Duda added.
Last month, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Warsaw wants the US to deploy nuclear weapons to Poland in response to Russia placing nukes in Belarus. In October 2022, before Putin announced his deployment plans, Duda said his government had approached the US about the idea of adding Poland to NATO’s nuclear sharing program.
Under NATO’s nuclear sharing program, US nuclear weapons are deployed in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, and the Netherlands. There are no American nukes in countries that joined NATO after the Cold War, but that could change as the US is working to buildup the alliance’s “eastern flank.”
When Putin first announced he would deploy nukes to Belarus, which he said was a response to Britain providing Ukraine with toxic depleted uranium ammunition, he compared the move to NATO nuclear sharing.
Duda’s comments on Tuesday come amid heightened tensions between Belarus and its NATO neighbors. Poland has said it’s deploying an additional 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus as part of a buildup that started after Wagner fighters traveled to Belarus.
This whole Ukraine episode is a fiasco. The architects of the coup & war are criminals and should face a firing squad.
The only criminal here is Putin, the invader and thief of foreign lands.
Get a load of this fascist scum. I bet he believed we were turning a corner in Afghanistan while our evacuation aircraft were being mobbed on the tarmac.
Poland and UA were up to their eyeballa in the recent color revolution directed against Belarus.. As such, and along with the constant hysterical whining, both deserve a good nuking..
Such a very antiwar statement but what can we expect. This Ukraine war blog have become just a sanctuary for the Kremlin supporters.
Well, I will hope if the nuking happens, that you take a taste of it.
Don, there will be no place for you to hide.
Russia has missiles reaching the USA, China is there too, you can be sure the Chinese are on the side of the Kremlin.
One missile would take care of the Rammstein AFB in Germany, Berlin is just across the Polish border and Warsaw is closer to Moscow nuclear minute time.
Putin has said, there will be no world without Russia, he means what he says, you can take it to the bank.
“you can be sure the Chinese are on the side of the Kremlin, when it suits them and to the extent that it suits them.”
Fixed, no charge.
nato: Rules for these but not for me… giggle giggle
What are the Polish hyena’s howling about now?
Well, unless Biden is even more senile than he seems, you ain’t gonna get nukes. It would be far too risky.
But, yes, this event has changed the perception of the security situation, definitely. It may even clarify to the thick heads that rule these pipsqueak countries that even worse than being under the shadow of a great power neighbor is setting yourself up as an enemy under the shadow of a great power neighbor. Uncle S is fading fast and will not come to your aid when the time comes …
Senile Biden is not in charge, if crazy and sick fanatic Nuland orders Biden to sign the bottom line he will do as told.
The Biden government is no better than the Scholz disaster in Germany and the UK and France and others.
Why do they think Uncle Sam will treat them better than Ukraine, NATO is broken and impotent already.
“It is changing the architecture of security in our immediate neighborhood, but also of the eastern flank of NATO, at the same time. So in fact it is changing the situation for all of the alliance,” Duda added.
Sounds familiar. Just like the “eastern flank of NATO” changed the security architecture of the region.
They do want and support Biden’s WW III and they are convinced they can use NATO as their proxy just as the US does to fight, die and pay for their Polish interests.
They forget, NATO members have been disarming their own armies.
EU members have economies going in recession including the biggest one, Germany, Biden cut their throats with sanctions and sabotaging the pipelines. MSM can’t hide that from the people.
The moral of this story is, don’t be a Duda head.
“It is changing the architecture of security in our immediate neighborhood….”.
Too bad this guy wasn’t concerned when the US and NATO sponsored a coup in the ” immediate neighborhood “. .