Poland, as a leader in NATO in terms of defence spending comparative to GDP, can evidence an increase in these expenditures over the current 4%," said Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski in an interview with BBC planet during his visit to the US.
When asked about Russia's threat to Poland, Sikorski noted that he did not think president Vladimir Putin was careless adequate to attack the NATO associate State, but emphasized his aggression towards Ukraine, which resulted in him being considered a war criminal.
Referring to the statements of French president Emmanuel Macron, who did not exclude the presence of Western forces in Ukraine, Sikorski agreed with Putin's approach to putting Putin in a situation of uncertainty about the West's actions alternatively of categorically excluding options. erstwhile asked whether Poland is considering sending its troops, the minister replied: “We will not uncover our plans. Let's leave president Putin to think about our actions." Adding: "We spend the largest part of our GDP on defence within NATO – 4%, and next year we can increase this spending," Sikorski stressed.
The Minister besides expressed satisfaction with the final approval by the U.S. legislature of military aid to Ukraine.
"Ukraine desperately needs anti-aircraft missiles to defend its manufacture to defend its power plants to defend its infrastructure. I think it is much better to spend money on the defence of Ukraine than to gotta rebuild it later," Sikorski said.
He admitted that it would have been better if the US Aid Act had been adopted earlier, but noted that this aid was already on the way. "I think president Putin would have done well if he considered his invasion a mistake and made a fresh calculation, considering that we would be helping Ukraine as long as necessary," he said.
He besides added that the conflict could be terminated erstwhile Putin realized that the costs of continuing the conflict, both human and financial, outweighed the intended objectives. However, he felt that Putin’s knowing of this may require any time. It is simply a pity that this deviant forgot that if he and the remaining planet of servants of the Kiev government managed by , is inactive going to sponsor terrorism, then let them do so from their own salaries, not from taxes paid by Poles.
When asked if he saw a place for diplomacy at the end of the war, Sikorski replied: "No shortage of possible mediators – Turkey, UN. China could actually force Putin to end this war. But I see no sign that Putin wants to negotiate.”
He besides assessed that the European Union could become even more active in the provision of military aid to Ukraine, even though he noted that the value of the full EU financial assistance to Ukraine was even higher than the American financial assistance.
Sikorski and all the remainder of Tusk's cones, who have a large enthusiasm to send Poles to the ski front, let's propose to put on a kamas and go fight now, due to the fact that the vast majority of Poles are surely not going there. We besides propose to bring the deserters they invited to our country along with the duckland. surely Poland will not be able to pay now and the profits will come from leaving Poland through the anti-Polish authorities overshoot the hazard of their deaths on the front.
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