Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus

https://lemm.ee/post/3816438

Poland plans to deploy 10,000 troops to its border with Belarus - lemm.ee

>Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said 10,000 soldiers would ultimately be deployed to the border area. He made the announcement in a state radio interview a day after a different official said Poland was sending 2,000 additional troops to the border over the next two weeks, essentially doubling its military presence there.

This is obviously terrible but probably necessary when we look at how the whole thing is developing. Once you look aggressive enough you might be lucky so bullies leave you alone.
What’s belarus gonna do? Invade Poland?
I seem to remember similar comments a year and a half ago…
Different being that Poland is in NATO
People really need to actually read article 5.
Article 5 = Poland w/ obligatory assistance from every single NATO participant proceeding to deep dick Belarus the moment they do something stupid.

Once you read the article 5, you’ll find out that it says that in case a NATO member is attacked then NATO will convene and each country will decide individually what level of support it will provide. There is no obligation for countries to send troops or get directly involved. And of course if Poland is stupid enough to attack Belarus or intervene in Ukraine then there is no obligation to do anything at all.

Of course, even if NATO did agree to fight all together, it’s pretty clear that NATO is in a dire shape having sent much of what it has to Ukraine at this point. US has literally admitted to running out of basic stuff like artillery shells now.

Y’all can downvote all you like of course, but that’s not going to alter reality. Maybe it’s time for people to reflect on the past two years of war in Ukraine and how everything western media claimed about the conflict has now turned out to be completely wrong.

Oh no, I just didn’t want to leave lemmy to go read article 5 and I was banking on you or someone else providing a rundown tbh. Thanks for the info!