“The claim that our government will cut the defense budget and liquidate units is false PiS propaganda,” argues Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz in an interview with “Newsweek,” attacking: “Poland does not deserve an opposition . that causes chaos in times of war.” Is this an overview of the past 8 years?
Will conscription return?
The Minister of Defense was asked, among other things, whether it provides for the possibility of restoring universal military service in Poland.
Conscription in Poland has been suspended, not abolished. Voluntary military service and active reserve function well. We will develop these forms intensively. All elements, led by professional soldiers, form a single unit for operational activities
– replied Kosiniak-Kamysz.
PSL president attacks PiS
When asked about the real state of the Polish army after eight years of PiS rule, he replied:
I can’t talk about everything, there is an audit at the Ministry of Defense, but there is no doubt that we need to invest in security. The finalization of many agreements signed by our predecessors will take place not in a month or two, but in a dozen years, and in my opinion, more boasted about that than about the real effects of improving Poland’s defense.
He accused the opposition of “adopting an attitude of chaos and leading his party astray.”
The latter worries me less, but Poland does not deserve an opposition that causes chaos in times of war. The claim that our government will cut the defense budget and liquidate units is false PiS propaganda. The defense budget is the largest in history. Together with the Armed Forces Support Fund, this amounts to over 4%. GDP
– said the head of the Ministry of National Defense.
When asked whether corrections would be made to the PiS government’s decisions, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized:
I do not condemn everything PiS has done in the field of defense. In this we differ from those who believed that Poland did not exist until 2015, that there was no policy or strategy. We will keep what is good, but where there is an opportunity to renegotiate, to improve conditions, to accelerate something, I will pursue it. The purchase of equipment alone does not complete the modernization of the army. It’s important, but it still requires infrastructure and soldier preparation to use this equipment. And especially individual equipment for soldiers, which is lacking.
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Smolensk Subcommittee
He announced that by the end of June the results of the team’s work will be known which will “determine the legitimacy, economics and effectiveness of the Macierewicz Subcommittee, which has cost taxpayers more than 30 million złoty in almost eight years are.”
The PSL president states that “Poland does not deserve an opposition that causes chaos in times of war.” Or perhaps we should remind the Deputy Prime Minister what the anti-PiS camp has been doing for eight years? And isn’t ‘chaos’ also the current lawlessness practiced by Donald Tusk’s team? You have to have some courage…
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Source: wPolityce