Today in Warsaw, Polish President Andrzej Duda again rejected the request that his country send old MIG 29 aircraft to Ukraine and at the same time said that he does not believe that the future US President Donald Trump will allow Russia to destroy Ukraine, because he thinks that the United States of America (USA) is in they invested too much money in it.
"We know that President Trump, as a man of success, a born fighter, first of all, does not like to be defeated. He has great respect for the money of the American taxpayers. If we consider how much the USA has invested in helping Ukraine, which are huge sums, I cannot imagine that President Trump would allowed Russia to destroy Ukraine," said Duda after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The Polish president stressed that Russia must not be allowed to win the war with Ukraine and must be stopped, but again rejected pleas from Kiev for Poland to send its old Russian MIG 29 jets to Ukraine.
"If we send our MIGs to Ukraine, the NATO countries would have to protect our airspace. That is the main issue. Until we get such guarantees, we cannot send the planes because we need them," said Duda.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rute appealed in Warsaw to NATO members to increase their allocations for defense and the defense industry.
"We want to further strengthen our deterrence capability and defense. We are increasing spending, but we need to do more. Increasing defense spending is a strong signal for the US as well," Rute said.
The Secretary General of NATO did not rule out that the American anti-missile shield base made available to NATO, which was officially opened today in Redjików in the north of Poland, built to intercept ballistic missiles primarily from Iran, could also protect European allies from a missile attack from Russia.
"NATO must have the ability to counter threats from various directions, we will work on that," Rute said.
During his first visit to Poland, Mark Rute spoke today with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and expressed his understanding of the fears of Poland and other allies on the eastern wing of NATO that they could be the target of Russian attacks. He supported the idea that the allies should help Poland to strengthen the eastern border, because it is also the eastern border of NATO and the European Union.
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