The Polish armed forces are training citizen volunteers how to be armed partisans, firing rifles and donning gas masks.

That’s… not great. The program is apparently popular, so they are expanding its capacity so that every adult male receives the training.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      1219 days ago

      If Ukraine was NATO, we’d be out in all force already.

      It is only because we don’t have a defense treaty with them that we risk the NATO treaty if any NATO country decides to send troops. Since they are essentially deciding for every NATO country to enter the war then.

      But if they attack a NATO country like Poland, then that is exact what NATO is designed for and nothing is risked.

      • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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        -319 days ago

        Mate, I am not speaking about armed response but overall response. Europe was straight up sleeping. We are underarmed and our response times suck, and historically Poland always was seen as comfortable buffer zone.

        • Phoenixz
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          519 days ago

          I love your extremely oversimplified to the point of being ridiculous type response

          • @YeOldGrim@lemmy.world
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            118 days ago

            Nothing is a cliche when it happens to you. I would argue if you were in poland, and especially with the knowledge how poland has been consistently fucked over by it’s “allies” your stance might differ.

            It’s easy to go into semantics when you are not one day’s ride away from firing guns.