We can see the strength of the Polish army, how much has changed in recent years. Gone are the days when the Polish army was ashamed of its equipment and conditions of service.
Today we see the strength of the Polish army. Soon we will see with our own eyes how much has changed in the armed forces in recent years
- said the head of the Ministry of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak before the start of the military parade on the Day of the Polish Army. He stressed that they would “defend the Polish army without hesitation”.
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President Andrew Dudathe main speaker of the day under the constitution called the past eight years “the time of rebuilding the Polish army and strengthening Polish security”.
Previously, we faced exactly the opposite situation – with the reduction in the size of the Polish armed forces, with the liquidation of many units, the disappearance of the military presence in eastern Poland, with the adoption of plans for the defense of the Republic of Poland on the Vistula line. There is no going back to that misguided policy
he said.
Andrzej Duda recalled some data: in 2015 Poland had about 97,000. soldiers, and after dismantling and liquidating several hundred military units, it had only three army divisions.
three!
In 2016, we stopped this catastrophic policy and completely reversed the poles. Currently, the fifth division is being formed, the 18th Mechanized Division and the 1st Legions Infantry Division have been established, and the 2nd Mechanized Corps is being established in Kraków. More than 37,000 Territorial Defense Forces were rebuilt from scratch.
As the president emphasized, the Polish army currently numbers more than 175,000 soldiers. soldiers. Our country is spending more than 4% of its GDP on defense this year. GDP, ie PLN 137 billion. The financial attractiveness of this service for Poland has increased considerably. Ultimately, we should have an army of 300,000.
Behind this modernization effort lies the effort of many people. Defense spending has increased since 2016, when Prime Minister Beata Szydło and Minister Antoni Macierewicz decided to create WOT and arms purchases began. The Homeland Defense Act, drafted under the leadership of Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki, provided guidance for the difficult times that came after February 24, 2022. The Minister of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, managed to translate all this into concrete changes, a modernization offensive of the army of historical significance.
The political testament of the late president Lech Kaczynski.
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This power of the Polish army, as the president emphasized today, built “so that no one would ever dare to attack us”, we could see today during the parade on the occasion of the Day of the Polish Army. I was lucky enough to see her live. And I’m proud to say we have an army! We have the equipment, there is morale, there is a plan to defend Poland in times that threaten to become really dangerous.
This is not the time to experiment, this is not the time to get bored. Enjoying an increasingly stronger army, we must not forget: if Tusk comes to power, he will turn everything to ashes again. This is how PO ruled in the years 2007-2015, such an approach – always against the construction of Polish power – has been presented by its people for the past eight years.
Even today they, the economic losers, worry about debt for arms purchases! Sorry to write this but I think they prefer to be busy. We’d rather be in debt than busy. If we are safe, we will refund everything without any problems.
Constant ridicule, ridicule, manipulation directed against the reconstruction of the army . Even today, on the day of the Polish Army Day. For the German press published for Poland, despite a throat threat, the Polish armament effort is an excuse to dress up as “four armored men and a dog”.
We have armored troops, we have rebuilt. Who is today the German dog who wags his tail at the criminal Putin by order from Berlin, probably everyone knows.
I also recommend an important note from red. Marzena Nykiel: For years they destroyed the army, today they can only grin. A parade, an important call from the president and a sea of grateful people to the military, aka “Strong White and Red”.
Source: wPolityce