Polish President Andrzej Duda is expected to pressure President Biden this week during a visit to Warsaw to increase the number of US troops permanently stationed in countries along the border with Russia, said a top US diplomat. told Fox News Digital.
Biden’s visit follows Monday’s surprise visit to Ukraine, where he met with President Zelensky. All of this has happened just days before her first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and Poland wants a little recognition for the role it has played in helping Ukraine.
“I think one of the purposes of President Biden’s visit to Poland is actually to highlight U.S. support for Poland,” said Adrian Kubicki, Poland’s consul general in New York. “[It] It’s also important that President Biden listens to what we have to say on how to strengthen security. ”
Polish President Andrzej Duda and President Biden inspect Polish security guards at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022. (Photo by Omar Marquez/Getty Images)
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Poland has been the top provider of defensive and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the war began, alongside the United States.
Warsaw has not only hosted the largest number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war-torn country, but it has also led NATO negotiations for newer and faster equipment to Ukraine, including tanks, earlier this year. Promoted delivery.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) and President Biden shake hands during a meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, February 20, 2023. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
More than a dozen countries have pledged to provide tanks to Kiev, and Poland is working with allies to see if its next defense aid program will include military aircraft.
But Kubitzki pointed out that not only Russia and all the Baltic states close to Ukraine but also Poland are threatened by Russian aggression.
“We would like to see an increased and permanent presence of the US military in Poland, in the immediate vicinity of the ongoing war,” he said. … And if Russia succeeds in Ukraine, what could happen in the future?”
Supporters welcome US soldiers of the US Army’s 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment at the Czech-Polish border in Harrachov, Czech Republic, March 29, 2015. Polish President Duda had expected to put pressure on President Biden to increase the number of permanent US troops in countries bordering Ukraine and Russia. (Photo credit: Matej Divizna/Getty Images)
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Russia has threatened to advance its aggression beyond Ukraine’s borders since the war began, and Moldova, to the west of Ukraine, where a contingent of Russian sympathizers remains in the region known as Transnistria. is aiming at
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier this month said Kiev had thwarted a Russian plot to overthrow the Moldovan government, a claim confirmed by the Moldovan government and reignited concerns about Russia’s overall aggression against Europe.
Kubitzki said Poland believes Russia cannot overthrow Kiev or invade other European countries as Russian President Vladimir Putin originally intended. But he warned that Moscow is playing the long game.
Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division listen to instructions before launching into Poland at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on February 14, 2022, prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Melissa Sue Geritz/Getty Images)
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“Putin has time,” he said. “We have known for a long time – Poland has actually learned the hard way through our history – this ambition is…[is] still valid. It doesn’t have to happen right away.
“You have to stop completely [to] With this outrageous invasion of Ukraine, I am 100% sure Putin will eventually try to invade other countries,” Kubitzki warned.
