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| 'Militarist Performance' Poland is preparing the army for the collapse of NATO and the EU | |
| 2023-09-07 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Stanislav Stremidlovsky [REGNUM] In Poland - an innovation. From September 1 this year, all Polish schoolchildren, from the fourth grade of elementary school to secondary school, will take sports tests every year. Test results - running, jumping, push-ups - will now be entered in the "passport of sports talents", which will also indicate the parameters of schoolchildren. The official explanation says that this is necessary to create a base of physically gifted children. However, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita believes that there is something more behind the "passport".
Professor Grzegorz Sybiha calls the "sports talent passport" something like a new population database. “We do not know all the purposes of using this information, since it is postulated that they can be taken to perform any legislatively defined state task ,” notes the professor. “ Thus, the idea of creating a “passport” is hidden in the phrase “state task”, and it is not clear who will ultimately use the collected data.” Marek Rutka , a member of the Sejm of Poland, gives his answer. He believes that information about the physical fitness of children is of interest to the Ministry of National Defense. In this way, it will have at its disposal a complete database of potential recruits for the Polish army. At the same time, the consent of the parents is not required to enter information about their child in the “passport of sports talents”. The question is why now the military department needed a total assessment of the physical condition and health of Polish schoolchildren, because before it somehow managed without it. Apparently, the matter is in the task set by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to increase the size of the army to 300,000 people. According to the former commander of the ground forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak , this task is impossible to complete without the return of the general conscription. Compulsory military service in Poland was abolished in 2009. Since then, not a single party in the country has stuttered about her return, since such a proposal would portend her political death. Even now, when PiS is actively exploiting the topic of Poland's security during the parliamentary election campaign, and its leaders are talking about the creation of more and more new divisions, statements about the return of the general conscription are not heard. But without this measure, says Skshipchak, a large army will have to be forgotten. “Without the resumption of the general draft, there is no chance of finding soldiers for new divisions created from scratch ,” the general emphasizes. Our authorities are aware of this . Even the Americans are wondering how they are going to do this without the general call.” Indeed, against the background of the massive rearmament of the Polish army, the purchase of new tanks, howitzers, aircraft, multiple launch rocket systems and other "beautiful toys" it is not clear where the people who will master them will come from. Compulsory military service would solve many problems. But first, the Polish authorities must explain to the public the need to return to such an unpopular measure. And it will be more difficult than to justify the increase in defense spending to 4% of Poland's GDP. An appropriate ideology is required. Some experts do not see anything serious in the militarization of Poland, believing that it is of a political technological nature and is associated with the desire of "Law and Justice" to rule forever. At the same time, the German publication Junge Welt states, the “militarist performance” staged by PiS sends two conflicting signals at once. On the one hand, the leader of the ruling party, Jarosław Kaczynski , says that the Polish army should become " the backbone of NATO's eastern flank". On the other hand, Polish government speakers tell the public that “ rearmament, unprecedented in its history, makes the country “ self-sufficient in terms of security”, i.e. independent of existing alliances, the seriousness of which the Polish political class secretly doubts after the experience of the 1930s .” In other words, Warsaw assumes the collapse of the North Atlantic Alliance and, most likely, the European Union in the foreseeable future. Considering that the Polish rearmament programs will reach their design capacity in 10 years, the Warsaw strategists give both alliances a lifetime of up to 2030-2035. After that, Poland's hands will be completely untied, which is unlikely to please its neighbors. They perceive numerous Polish integration initiatives with caution. Today, Warsaw proposes to build highways linking the countries of Central and Eastern Europe for the sake of better movement of civilian goods and people. And tomorrow, South Korean and American tanks with white and red flags will roll over them? “ A significant part of our society is still afraid of the Poles ,” writes the Lithuanian edition of IQ. - Because it is not clear how many percent there are still left, for whom "Vilna is ours." The Poles, armed to the teeth by the Americans, will have nothing to restrain. Theoretically, NATO member countries do not fight each other, but if you remember the Turks and Greeks, then nothing is guaranteed. In addition, Poland is religious and believes in miracles, which means that they happen there from time to time. For example, some military leader will feel like the embodiment of Pilsudski and go before the elections to restore order in Eastern Kresy in order to raise the ratings at the same time. The fears expressed by the Lithuanian edition still look exaggerated. The accelerated rearmament of Poland is not necessarily caused by its expansionist plans. The problem is that the alternative explanation for the militarization of the country on the Vistula is even worse. Perhaps Warsaw is preparing for a new big war in Europe, which will also affect the Western European countries, as it was already in the 20th century. In the end, it was from there that foreign troops were the first to come to Poland for the last two centuries. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #13 Israelis, two, cultured but knackered, Who happen to notice a placard: "Speak Russian?" El Al... Dubbing news, for morale... What a world! Golden Voices, but backward. |
| Posted by: Heriberto Dribble3682 2023-09-07 23:49 |
| #12 Making friends and convincing skeptics again, Grom? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-09-07 18:53 |
| #11 Replace Russia w/ Palestine and you would be making and bigger ass of yourself in your vatnick sweatsuit and cheap sandals. You are a hypocrite of the highest order. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-07 17:10 |
| #10 A Turing test? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 17:06 |
| #9 You lose. That's what happens when you defend the indefensible. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-07 16:53 |
| #8 OK, I'll give you another chance (I once taught a class of special children, so I'm very patient with differently gifted) |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 16:37 |
| #7 Show me you a true Russian patriot and threaten to nuke Washington. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-07 16:26 |
| #6 ^ |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 16:00 |
| #5 Russia has destroyed herself the last century and continues to do so this century. From a great, though backward, power with a vast population to a middling and fast declining autocracy. They are well on the road to another breakup and reorganization or absorption. One thing that struct me as a young lad was that according to demographers the Soviet Union was "missing" 100 million people going by their reported birth and death rates if they were a normal country. Those are the missing and the never born children of the 20 million from internal genocides and 30+ million dead in wars. I'll give you some credit Grom. You were smart enough to get out while you could. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-07 15:07 |
#4 Poland is religious and believes in miracles, which means that they happen there from time to time. I think it is a great miracle that current national and international problems haven't already combined well enough to collapse everything, some time ago. |
| Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342 2023-09-07 15:07 |
| #3 ^that's what all the smart people in Europe been telling to each other for the last 500 years. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 14:43 |
| #2 Russian cope, i.e. lying to themselves. Poland prudently rearms as Moscow threatens to invade everyone from Latvia to Britain. Meanwhile Russian capabilities and manpower are destroyed in Ukraine and the road to Moscow is wide open and unmanned. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-09-07 13:20 |
| #1 "The next partition [of Poland] will be the last" - Vladimir Putin. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-07 04:54 |