Poland "ready" to host NATO nuclear weapons, President Andrzej Duda says

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Source: CBS News/AFP

April 22, 2024 / 6:58 AM EDT


Poland is ready to host nuclear arms if NATO decides to deploy the weapons in the face of Russia reinforcing its armaments in Belarus and Kaliningrad, President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published Monday.

Poland, a NATO member and staunch supporter of Ukraine, shares a border with both Russia's Kaliningrad exclave and with Belarus, Moscow's ally. "If our allies decide to deploy nuclear arms on our territory as part of nuclear sharing, to reinforce NATO's eastern flank, we are ready to do so," Duda said in an interview published by the Fakt daily.

Moscow in response warned it would take steps to "ensure its security" if Warsaw got the weapons. Duda spoke to the Polish media after a visit to New York, where he held meetings at the U.N. and discussed the war in Ukraine with former US president Donald Trump.

In March, he visited Washington, where he met with President Biden. Discussions about nuclear cooperation between Poland and the United States have been ongoing "for some time," he said.

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After the Duda meeting with 45, this makes me whip this out -

[marble falls]

1. A hardy 'thanks' and a hard 'nope'.

[Torchlight]

2. Putin's attempts to divide European unity has been failing dramatically.

One might argue it's having the opposite effect, and has instead created a Europe much more single-minded in its opposition to Moscow's policies not seen since the height of the cold war.

Moscow is cementing its place as a hostile nation no one can trust to its own word. The post-Putin government, whatever form it may take, will have a dozen years of diplomatic messes to clean up and payouts to make.