Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is determined to reconstruct what he considers the be the glory of the former Soviet Union, and so he has tipped his hand in several ways. He has taken parts of the Crimea, and his claim that parts of Ukrain are rightly Russian territory of Russia due to large Russian populations within certain Ukrainian areas were excuses to annex parts of the country. He is also venturing into the Middle East, though truly his desire is for European territory and pathways to the Baltic and Black Seas and easy transport of Russian natural gas to world markets.
Poland is a major prize, but the Polish still remember the suffering and servitude under the former Soviet Union, and they are determined to not let that happen again. To that end they are relying on NATO and also preparing internally to reject Russian efforts to carve out pieces of their country, and to put in to place internal military and paramilitary groups that can fend off Russian aggression and “infiltration,” at least until NATO support can arrive to help.
Paramilitary groups are to be formed in Poland to enhance its military capabilities as part of the preparations for a possible ‘hybrid war’ with Russia, the Defense Ministry said.
“The territorial defense force is our response to the threat associated with hybrid warfare,” said Polish Defense Ministry official Grzegorz Kwasniak, who is responsible for the creation of the new paramilitary group.
The new force will comprise 35,000 civilian volunteers that will undergo military training. Each Polish province will then receive one brigade of the territorial defense force, consisting of volunteer battalions, with the biggest and most populous Mazovia province getting two brigades.
The eastern Polish provinces of Podlachia, Lublin and Podkarpachie will have priority in deployment of the paramilitary units as they are deemed to be most exposed to the perceived Russian aggression.
“Enrollment of the first members of the territorial defense force will start in September,” Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said on Thursday at a conference of paramilitary organizations in the northern Polish town of Ostroda, AFP reports. He also said the group’s command structure and senior appointments had already been decided in April, as reported by the Polish PAP news agency.
The personnel of the newly formed paramilitary units will receive a monthly payment amounting to 500 zlotys (€125), according to dpa.
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I pray for Eastern Europe. From the Baltic to Albania. Look how little outcry there is after Putin took parts of the Ukraine. Most of Western Europe doesn’t care about Eastern Europe. They feel that historically the area is under the Russian sphere of influence.
Conservatives deep in bed with Putin blast Obama for being weak towards Putin. Can’t make this up.
Modern Conservatives are truly a version of scary crazy we have never seen before.
I’m planning on taking an NRA pistol shooting and maybe rifle class. I’ll call it a mini adventure stay cation. Lol
How many conseratives have you seen rioting or commiting mass shootings you idiot?
As we fight with ourselves with engineered racial injustice and other false flags, the world is about to revert back to the makings of another world war. The lack of leadership of free nations is evident. A vacuum exists that will and is being filled with evil.
Bartek Bury
Conservatives secretly love Putin because he’s exactly what they want to be and want as a president. A pretend tough guy idiot who talks recklessly and lies a lot while being patriotic and creating a force of working poor.
Too stupid to riot or know the difference between a protest and a riot.
Mass murders? Almost all of them. Oklahoma City, every kid who shot up a theater or church, domestic terrorists are classified as usually being white males between the ages of 16-50 who are extreme white wing conservatives lol.
http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/