Poland has the population potential, not to mention the economic potential, for an army of 300,000 people – emphasized on Saturday on Polskie Radio 24 the former head of the Ministry of National Defense, Vice President of PiS, Antoni Macierewicz. According to him, PO deputy head Tomasz Siemoniak’s statement about the army means opening up to the threat from Russia.
Announcements about reducing the potential of the Polish army
Former Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak (KO), asked on RMF FM on Friday whether the coalition government created by the current opposition groups would aim to create an army of 300,000 soldiers, replied that “there is no demographic potential for such an army.”
I have often said publicly that the optimal variant is a professional army of 150,000 men, 30-40,000. territorial defense soldiers, 20-30 thousand voluntary compulsory military service and building a reserve of several hundred thousand people. This will give Poland the right troops to defend the country
– said Siemoniak.
Opening Poland to the threat of Russia
PiS vice-president Antoni Macierewicz described this statement by the KO politician as incompetent.
Siemoniak talked about population potential. Then let him see what the Finnish army looks like, a country with 5 million inhabitants. Poland has population potential, not to mention economic potential, and the most important element is the military and political threat from Russia
– said Macierewicz.
According to him, Tomasz Siemoniak’s position “actually means that he is opening himself up to the threat from the Russian side.”
Siemoniak was the Minister of National Defense, Deputy Prime Minister and a very close associate of (the head of the PO) Donald Tusk, so his statement about the prospects of Polish defense if the PO takes over is substantive and should be treated very seriously , as a prospect of a threat to Poland’s security, resignation to guaranteeing our full security, military independence and alliance with the United States
– said Macierewicz.
According to him, Siemoniak’s statement confirms how PiS defined the military and international policy of the Civic Platform “when Minister Siemoniak was liquidating the Polish army.”
He announces that he will do it again
– said Macierewicz.
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Source: wPolityce