Poland warns Putin against war: “Russia would lose” | Exclusive interview with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski

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   >He is considered one of the harshest critics of Germany’s Russia policy and was already speaking plainly about the massive threat of war posed by Russia’s ruler Vladimir Putin when German politicians were still trivialising it: Radosław Sikorski (61). The Polish Foreign Minister welcomed BILD to the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw on Friday for an exclusive interview. He warns Germany once again that an attack against Nato could occur.
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   >Sikorski: “The German politicians seem to be satisfied that Russia will only be ready in four to five years and by then Germany will be ready. But the point is that before Russia gets to Germany, it has to reach some other countries.”
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   >What Sikorski means: A Russian attack on Poland or the Baltic countries!
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   >How likely does he think an attack on his country is?
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   >”Russia has attacked Poland many times in the 500 years of our history. So we wouldn’t be surprised at all. Russia would then lose because we as the West are far more powerful than Russia. Today, Ukraine is not fighting alone. Unlike so often in the past, we would not fight alone.”
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   >The Polish Foreign Minister, who held the post from 2007 to 2014, used to be a war reporter. He reported from Afghanistan in the 1980s and later from Yugoslavia. When the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, when he was not a minister, Sikorski travelled to the war zone himself, organised donations for the army and brought troop transporters to the front.
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   >Sikorski knows what he is talking about, he says:
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   >”We have a choice: either we have a defeated Russian army outside the borders of Ukraine or a victorious Russian army on the border with Poland. And what Putin would then do is what Hitler did with Czechoslovakia, he would take the industry and the people in Ukraine and mobilise them to carry on,” says Sikorski. “It’s better to stop Putin in Ukraine, 500 to 700 kilometres east of here.”
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   >Ukraine is currently under massive pressure, particularly in the east and south; the Russian army has been able to conquer individual villages and there have been isolated breakthroughs at the front.
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   >On Saturday night, Russia launched new massive missile attacks on Ukraine. They were launched from the air, from the Black Sea and from the ground. A total of four thermal power plants were severely damaged, according to the energy company DTEK. People were also injured. Prior to this, there had been a nationwide air alert. According to the Ministry of Energy in Kiev, the air strikes were primarily aimed at energy plants.
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   >The authorities also reported several explosions in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which is not far from the Russian border and has been repeatedly shelled. Russian shelling also hit the grounds of a hospital. One patient was injured in her bed.
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   >Nevertheless, Sikorski does not view the situation as negatively as many others currently do.
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   >”Wars never go in just one direction, the ebb and flow changes from time to time. And as your war theorist Carl von Clausewitz would say, there is always the fog of war. There is always uncertainty about what is actually going on. Last year, for example, Ukraine recaptured 50 per cent of the territory it had previously occupied. This year, the Russians have regained the initiative. What I don’t think has been sufficiently recognised, however, is that Ukraine actually won the battle on the Black Sea. Putin tried to blackmail Ukraine, Europe and Africa by stopping the passage of ships. Ukraine is now exporting almost as much grain as before via the Bosporus.”

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3. >”It’s better to stop Putin in Ukraine, 500 to 700 kilometres east of here.”

   500-700 km from Polish border – is Dnipro river… Ofc, this polish piece of shit would like it, as under facade of bravados he’s shiting himself from terror of realization that Poland will be left fight ruzia alone, same way as Ukraine was. And another “Sikorski” will be telling that it’s better to give ruzians half of Poland.

4. everybody would loose tbh

5. About time someone tells Pootin the obvious answer to war. Russia would lose BAD against the west. Come on world can’t you see the video evidence every freaking day coming out of 🇺🇦? Yea Russia is terrible at war. To many crooks and not enough chefs. They killed all there chefs.

6. When people say NATO has an 8-1 people advantage. Is that not strictly true given how Putin has drafted, men and women of all kinds plus a seemingly endless number of people from overseas who’d fight for Russia for a better life?