>This helplessness terrifies me and I wonder deeply whether these are still technical problems – because after all, this air defense system that we are talking about has not been fully completed – or legal problems; whether the procedures really allow for destroying air attack assets that are coming from Ukraine – said Gen. Roman Polko in the “Newsroom” program of the Polish Army. – Here I have no doubts that the Operational Command was perfectly aware that this was an armed drone, because after all, it was a massive Russian attack on Ukraine using missiles, using drones and this is not the first time such a situation has happened to us, and we are once again showing our own helplessness. For me, as a soldier, this is really irritating, because I expect soldiers to act effectively, and not blindly follow procedures. Because the procedures were followed by Dutch soldiers in Srebrenica, when, in accordance with the procedures, they allowed mass murders to be committed there.
>It would be good if politicians, who often use these words, that we have a hybrid war, that we have an attack in cyberspace, realized – because I have the impression that some do not know yet – that there is a war and that missiles armed with payloads are flying, therefore it is difficult to apply peacetime regulations, which actually apply to situations when we have a predictable partner on the other side. The situation is completely different than when there is no war nearby and it is also difficult to assume that the Operational Command or politicians do not realize that if another massive attack is taking place – 100 missiles, about 100 drones, targets that are difficult to combat, each worth about PLN 100,000 – then we need to build tools to simply destroy these means, and not keep saying that we have the situation under control – said the former commander of GROM, noting that he is starting to have “increasing doubts” about this.
Wow, that’s not confidence inspiring.
Starting to look like NATO is about as effective as the American legal system is with Trump and associated fascists.
By trying their damndest to avoid war, to the point of cowardice, many of these politicians will sleepwalk their countries right into it…while hindering the one ally that is brave enough to confront the evil everyone else seems so scared about.
Meanwhile, another recent article in this subteddit says Poland is preparing a system for mass evacuations.
These suits just keep sending the wrong signals to the simpletons in Russia.
(Their military men, though, know what must be done)
Pathetic- shoot them down.
I agreed with this general. If this drones strayed into Turkey, Turkish military would have shoot them down without hesitation
Shoot. Them. The. Fuck. Down.
What’s to say it really was a stray drone instead of a test of Poland’s response?
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>This helplessness terrifies me and I wonder deeply whether these are still technical problems – because after all, this air defense system that we are talking about has not been fully completed – or legal problems; whether the procedures really allow for destroying air attack assets that are coming from Ukraine – said Gen. Roman Polko in the “Newsroom” program of the Polish Army. – Here I have no doubts that the Operational Command was perfectly aware that this was an armed drone, because after all, it was a massive Russian attack on Ukraine using missiles, using drones and this is not the first time such a situation has happened to us, and we are once again showing our own helplessness. For me, as a soldier, this is really irritating, because I expect soldiers to act effectively, and not blindly follow procedures. Because the procedures were followed by Dutch soldiers in Srebrenica, when, in accordance with the procedures, they allowed mass murders to be committed there.
>It would be good if politicians, who often use these words, that we have a hybrid war, that we have an attack in cyberspace, realized – because I have the impression that some do not know yet – that there is a war and that missiles armed with payloads are flying, therefore it is difficult to apply peacetime regulations, which actually apply to situations when we have a predictable partner on the other side. The situation is completely different than when there is no war nearby and it is also difficult to assume that the Operational Command or politicians do not realize that if another massive attack is taking place – 100 missiles, about 100 drones, targets that are difficult to combat, each worth about PLN 100,000 – then we need to build tools to simply destroy these means, and not keep saying that we have the situation under control – said the former commander of GROM, noting that he is starting to have “increasing doubts” about this.
Wow, that’s not confidence inspiring.
Starting to look like NATO is about as effective as the American legal system is with Trump and associated fascists.
By trying their damndest to avoid war, to the point of cowardice, many of these politicians will sleepwalk their countries right into it…while hindering the one ally that is brave enough to confront the evil everyone else seems so scared about.
Meanwhile, another recent article in this subteddit says Poland is preparing a system for mass evacuations.
These suits just keep sending the wrong signals to the simpletons in Russia.
(Their military men, though, know what must be done)
Pathetic- shoot them down.
I agreed with this general. If this drones strayed into Turkey, Turkish military would have shoot them down without hesitation
Shoot. Them. The. Fuck. Down.
What’s to say it really was a stray drone instead of a test of Poland’s response?