A defensive war? What, one where you constantly take missile blasts and live in fear of a nuke blast?
What missile blasts Sean?
This just shows how romantically deluded some Poles are. Be practical, Russia will not do that and only intransigence and a cantankerous approach from Poland could provoke that. Don't live in the past!
Whats romantically deluded? They have at most 150 planes in the air, we have 120, they have around 2000-3000 tanks active, we have 900, their soldiers shoot on average 50 bullets yearly, our shoot nearly 4000, we're talking real working amount of equipment not nominal, nominally they have mountains of stuff thats rusting like their fleets.
We can be practical in what Russia can or cannot do with its current military potential, overruning a country with a relatively modern and large military is on the border of their capacity and i dont believe they would use nukes unless Poles would enter Russia proper of which our current army is incapable of.
They want Abkhazia and Ossetia to have sovereignty and autonomous rule.
Which is why they rule them?:)
I know what Russia is capable of and would be cautious too. However, I don't go to paranoid lengths about it.
The idea of any policy, especially the defensive one is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst, right now i believe Russia will have a go at Ukraine.