Radoslaw Sikorski welcomes European action in terms of defense which will, according to him, make it possible within a few years to put in place a policy of deterrence against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
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The Russian-Ukrainian conflict seems more bogged down than ever, more than four years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia again launched more than 500 drones and around twenty missiles on Ukraine during the night from Sunday to Monday. However, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski remains confident. “At the end of the decade”l’Europe aura “an army that Putin would be crazy to attack”he declared Monday May 18 on France Inter.
“The project of rebuilding the Russian Empire is lost in advance (…) Russia has been defeated many times in the past, including by France”recalled Radoslaw Sikorski to support his point. The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs underlines that the Europeans have been gaining strength for several months, a reassuring element, according to him. “We have doubled our military spending in Europe since the election of Donald Trump. We don’t need to do heroic things, we just need to stick to our commitments at the Hague NATO summit last year.”a déclaré Radoslaw Sikorski.
And that’s the only way “deterrence will be effective”concludes the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs. One thing is certain, according to him, we must no longer change our strategy, because “Russia, once again, for a new generation, is wasting their nation’s resources and chances to create a normal country”criticized the vice-president of the Polish Council of Ministers.
