European supplies of missiles to the Patriot systems are becoming thinner, and Kiev is seeking hundreds of interceptor missiles before winter. This is simply a brutal lesson for NATO as a whole: safety costs early before the day of trial comes. Poland is to aid Ukraine, but it must not do so at the expense of its own shield.
Europe has reached the stock line
According to Interia, citing Politico, European supplies of Patriot missiles, key to Ukraine's defence against Russian ballistic missiles, are increasingly limited. Kiev is to prosecute hundreds of interceptors before Russia's expected winter attacks. Ukraine's abroad Minister Andry Sybiha briefly put it: "We virtually fight for all rocket."
This conviction is not just a dramatic comment from Kiev. It shows the state of Western magazines after years of politics, in which many leaders preferred to talk about values alternatively than pay for ammunition, anti-aircraft defence and the arms industry. War checks not press conferences, but warehouse states.
Patriot became a safety currency
The Patriot strategy is 1 of the most crucial tools for protecting against Russian ballistic missiles for Ukraine. Associated Press describedthat these types of threats are peculiarly hard to combat due to the fact that they leave the defence very small time to react. Each bullet intercepted is simply a salvaged infrastructure, people in shelters and cities that are not paralyzed by another wave of panic from the air.
The problem is that Patriot is not a simple ammunition from the tape. This is an expensive, advanced system, and PAC-2 and PAC-3 missiles are formed slower than modern war consumes them. Therefore, force shifts to countries that have their own sets and stocks. Among them are Poland, Germany, Spain and Greece.
For Warsaw it is not a method box in the NATO table. It's a substance of defence sovereignty. Poland lies at the border of war, has experience of Russian provocations and cannot treat its own air defence as a warehouse to fill another people's shortcomings. Assistance to Ukraine makes sense erstwhile it strengthens the safety of the region. It loses sense erstwhile it weakens the ability to defend Polish territory.
Pressure on Poland will grow
In the West, the tension between solidarity with Ukraine and NATO's own safety is becoming clearer. The fact that the Patriot case is straight hitting Warsaw, we have already written about Finnish refusal to hand over Patriot Ukraine rockets. It was clear at the time: others can number their own defence needs hard, and Poland cannot be the only country that confuses alliance loyalty with deficiency of assertiveness.
Kiev has all right to search arms. Russia carries out an assault war, destroys Ukrainian cities and tests the resilience of all Central Europe. But the Polish government has a first work to Poles. If our allies anticipate further missiles, they must besides supply a real complement to Polish supplies, short transportation times and guarantees that the gap will not be transferred to Warsaw.
The same applies to industry. Europe has built dependence on American systems for years, and now it discovers that Washington has its own priorities and its own shortcomings. Recent DN material on American Patriot stock showed that the problem did not end in European magazines. erstwhile there is no production, political declarations become an empty currency.
Lesson for Polish Politics
Ukraine fights for all bullet, due to the fact that without anti-aircraft defense, the winter strikes of Russia can destruct energy, logistics and morale of society. Poland must see this drama, but it besides has to draw its own conclusion: a country without ammunition supplies, without its own production and without hard control over air defence becomes a hostage to another people's decisions.
Therefore, Warsaw's answer should be simple. Support Ukraine against Russian aggression. Require full compensation from allies for each resource transferred. Accelerate production and purchases for the Polish Army. Do not let concern about the front in Ukraine mean a gap in the sky over Rzeszów, Warsaw or Gdynia.
The European Patriot magazines have ravaged not by accident, but by years of disarming illusions. The Polish right-wing has long said that hard safety is the foundation of sovereignty. Today, this fact is seen on radars, magazines and Ukrainian requests for all rocket.
Sources: Interia, Politico, Kyiv Post, Associated Press, Ukriformin.
Source: Interia Events
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