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Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army – POLITICO

www.politico.eu Poland seeks access to nuclear arms and looks to build half-million-man army – POLITICO

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Tusk: Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years

www.politico.eu /article/donald-tusk-plan-train-poland-men-military-service-russia/

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Amercia: Time to police your own economic incentives.

Europe: Nukes up

America: no not like that
As an American most of what I know about Poland is WWII history, Joseph Conrad's novels, and Stanislave Sucalsky's art. With that context. I'm glad Poland isn't about to take shit from anyone.
- My mom's side of the family is polish, back in the 80s they visited some relatives there so my mom could be the godmother to one of their daughters.
  
  Shit was rough there then, the family they stayed with had an actual outhouse. No one could ever say that my family is rich, but American money went a long way there back then, basically anything they wanted could be had for what was practically pocket change but the local polish people could barely afford any of it. One of them managed to visit the US back then, and literally cried when he went into an American supermarket and saw the variety and amount of food that just anyone could buy without needing to save up their ration cards (and not a big or fancy one, I'm pretty sure the one they went to is now a normal sized CVS)
  
  So some really rough times are still in living memory for a lot of poles.
  
  And they've really come a long way since then, my mom's goddaughter is now traveling the world doing something in the hospitality industry, last I heard I think she was in Thailand (the relative who visited back in the 80s was amazed to see black people.)
  
  So I don't think most poles are in any hurry to end up under Russians thumb again.
- Lol if you know anything about Poland, it's that there is no universe where it would take shit from anyone. The quote "Poland will have its borders even if it's on the last map humanity ever makes" is funny only to those who haven't been here
  
  I can't think of any other nation that has literally been wiped off the map more times than Poland, and still managed to come back again and again. If any country needs nukes, it's Poland.
We should do the same.
- Canada should definitely
  
  Am American, and I encourage this line of thought. We’re not ok down here. Protect yourselves.
  
  Edit: frankly, Mexico, Panama, and Denmark might want to explore the possibility as well.
  
  There is also debate in Sweden, and polls in South Korea have turned in favour of having them.
  
  We make enough cobalt-60 to make cobalt bombs
Wow Trump single handedly reignited the issue of Nuclear Proliferation.
Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years.
- you don't know how military alliances work, do you? not to worry, the US president doesn't know either.

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