Wiki Leaks on Poland

Leaking

The website WikiLeaks has released thousands of secret and private documents embarrassing to the U.S. and many other nations. One confidential file deals with the US Embassy in Warsaw and how Poland’s foreign minister believes that NATO is a “toothless club” and the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia justified Poland’s warning of Moscow’s “aggressive behavior”.

Foreign Minister Sikorski had complained that NATO has evolved into a political club with no teeth and warned that Poland would not be able to ignore a repetition of the Georgia scenario in Ukraine. He has also told U.S. officials that, in light of Russian excesses in Georgia, Poland's risky policy of arming the Georgians with shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles proved the right thing to do despite United States government objections. Poland remembers all too well England and France not honoring their mutual defense treaty in 1939 when Poland was invaded.

Following the 2008 Russian-Georgian war the secret document quotes Prime Minister Donald Tusk as saying: “"Now do you see why we want Patriot missiles and further security guarantees (as requested during the Missile Defense talks)?"

The Obama administration has pulled the plug on the European missile shield, which was to have rockets stationed in Poland. In its place is a solitary Patriot missile battery with unarmed rockets, used for training only and rotates duties inside and out of Poland.

It has also come to light that Poland has been seeking a larger American troop footprint stationed on Polish soil given the aggressive actions by Russia and the apathetic stance by NATO command.

The EU’s Eastern Partnership policy, led by Poland and Sweden to bring former Soviet states closer to the EU is essential for securing Poland’s security.

Russian domination would jeopardize democratic transformation and - more importantly, would crush hopes that Belarus could become a buffer state between Poland and Russia.

See select previous posts:

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2009/12/obamanation-in-poland.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-thorn-in-polands-side.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2009/06/unarmed-patriots-for-poland.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2009/02/us-promises-poland-patriot-missiles.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-rockets-for-poland.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2007/02/poland-as-missile-shield-base-saga.html#links

http://polishtoledo.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-us-anti-missile-system-on-polish.html#links

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