DISINFO: Polish military strategy is fundamentally wrong about the American defence assistance
SUMMARY
In a nutshell, the definition of the Polish military strategy is the following: Poland begs for the American troops to be deployed in the country so that Russia is afraid to attack it. The Poles do not want to cooperate with the American Army - they want to have something American on their territory, something that America will have to defend in the situation of a Russian attack. This sophisticated strategy has united all the Polish governments over the past three decades.
Although, after Afghanistan, such a strategy turned out to be fundamentally wrong. If the absurd delusions of the Polish Russophobes come true and Russia invades Poland, the American President will negotiate a two-week ceasefire with Putin in order to evacuate the staff of his military base, without regrets about abandoned equipment.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about NATO and the US military presence in Europe - it claims that the United States will abandon its European allies in a situation of a Russian attack.
The core of the Polish National Security Strategy is the Polish membership in NATO and security cooperation with NATO allies. NATO is a defensive alliance whose primary aims are to maintain peace and safeguard the independence, security and territorial integrity of its members.
Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is the critical component of the Alliance – it assumes that if a NATO Ally is a victim of an armed attack, every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the necessary actions to assist the Ally attacked. Article 5 is the cornerstone of NATO – it has been invoked only once in history as a response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
NATO has enhanced its forward presence in the eastern part of the Alliance, with four multinational battalion-size battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, on a rotational basis. These battlegroups, led by the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany and the United States respectively, make clear that an attack on one Ally would be considered an attack on the whole Alliance.
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