NARRATIVE – NATO’s best student, Warsaw is striving to bring its partners along in its wake to meet the challenge launched by Donald Trump on defense spending, and to face the Russian threat.
« We decided to be ready ! » Feet in a mixture of slush and melted snow, under a pine forest, Colonel Marius Ochalski, deputy head of the Eastern Shield project, shows a 200-meter-wide buffer zone established at the closed Polowce-Pieszczatka border post in 2023 for security reasons, between Poland and Belarus. Successive lines of defense which protect this border between the region of Podlasie, in eastern Poland, and that of Brest, in Belarus: anti-tank ditches, concrete blocks and barbed wire, mines, and a 5-meter metal fence, coupled with thermal cameras and electronic crossing detectors…
« It’s not the same level of tension as during the Cold War, but it’s getting close. It’s about anticipating to avoid a war »justifies the Polish army officer. On the other side, Belarus and Russia engaged…
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