After the election of Donald Trump, ordinary Poles fear they could be in Moscow's sights.
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“Capt Sielicki says the programme is oversubscribed, and the Polish government now has plans to expand it so that every adult male in the country receives training. Poland, which shares borders with both Russia and Ukraine, says it will spend almost 5% of GDP on defence this year, the highest in Nato.”
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“Warsaw has been on a spending spree, buying planes, ships, artillery systems and missiles from the US, Sweden and South Korea, among others.“
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“Poland is due to sign a defence agreement with France in the coming days, and another pact with the UK is in the pipeline – further moves by Warsaw to pivot away from its historically strong military ties with Washington. There is also talk of Poland being brought under the French military's ‘nuclear umbrella’”
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“A recent poll found that only 10.7% of adults said they would join the army as volunteers in the event of war, and a third said they would flee.
‘The war is very close but feels quite far,’ says medical student Marcel, ‘but if Russia attacked, I think I'd run.’
‘I would probably be the first one trying to escape the country,’ says another student, Szymon. ‘I just don't really see anything worth dying for here.’”
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