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Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [412]
@johnny reb, again, Poland isn't getting any "cutting edge weapons" from the US "for free", so what are you talking about?
A thank you would be enough.
I will gladly say "Thank you" to any American president who contributes to the security of Poland, including Joe Biden :) who in 2022 announced that the first
permanent American garrison would appear in Poland and he kept his word. It's in Poznań and it's called Camp Kościuszko. Poland has been asking for American permanent presence on Polish soil for years. Mariusz Błaszczak, the Minister of National Defence during the PiS rule, called it "a historical moment" back then.
I said that Trump gave Poland the latest technology in equipment and training that no other country was offered.
I'm really curious then what kind of "latest technology in equipment and training" Trump gave Poland that no other country on this planet was offered :) Could you name those things? Because all of what you mentioned earlier (Abram tanks, F-35 fighter jets, Apache and Black Hawk helicopters, HIMAR rocket launchers and Patriot missile systems) are in possession of quite a few other countries, not only Poland.
the United States protects and keeps for itself unless you know something I don't.
You must know something that I don't then, because I am not aware of any "advanced cutting edge weaponry the United States protects and keeps for itself" which the US would share
only with Poland.
Israel is the exception and you can thank your lucky stars for that.
And you used that word "probably" very loosely.
Don't get me wrong, I am (and probably majority of Poles) very thankful for what the US did for Poland for years* (and not just one president). I'm just setting the record straight - there's a number of countries that have the same American military equipment that Poland got and it isn't thanks to just one American president.
*For example, I don't know if you're aware, but Polish GROM special forces unit was basically built from scratch with the help/training provided by the British and American special forces. And that happened already in the 1990's. There's even an alley at the GROM base in Warsaw named after one of the Delta instructors who trained the very first GROM snipers :)
