Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that his country is seriously counting on France's willingness to make its nuclear military capabilities available for common European security.
Yesterday he visited Paris and Berlin after the visit he warned that the Russian nuclear threat is not abstract, because both Warsaw and Berlin are within range of Russian Iskander missiles.
"I take very seriously the words of President (Emmanuel) Macron that France is ready within its capabilities to use its nuclear potential so that it becomes part of overall European security. These signals have been coming for some time and should be taken very seriously," Tusk said on the occasion of the conversation with the president of France, Polish media reported today.
"There are 100 nuclear warheads, maybe more. For some reason, they have been modernized and recently there are more of them in the Kaliningrad area," said Tusk.
Polish Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Košnjak-Kamiš said today that nuclear weapons are a very serious matter that cannot be decided by one country alone.
"The subject of this type of weapon cannot be dealt with exclusively by one country, it is always an allied decision, it must be confirmed by all allied countries. It is a very sensitive, very serious topic," the Polish minister said about a possible European nuclear umbrella on Polsat television. of defense.
The Polish governments of the populist Pravo i Pravda party during the previous eight years while in power tried without success to initiate negotiations with the US, either during the administration of Donald Trump or now President Joseph Biden, especially after Russia's attack on Ukraine, to include Poland to the American "Nuclear Sharing" program.
"The problem is first of all that we do not have nuclear weapons. There is nothing to indicate that Poland could have them in the near future. There is always a potential possibility of participation in the Nuclear Sharing Program. We have discussed with American leaders whether the US is considering such a possibility The topic is open," President Duda said in an interview with the Gazeta Polska weekly in the fall of 2022.
However, a denial immediately arrived from Washington that there were no such talks and negotiations.
The current Polish government and Prime Minister Donald Tusk himself harshly commented on the recent statement of the candidate for the president of the USA, Donald Trump, that the USA would not come to the aid of NATO member countries that do not fulfill the voluntarily given promise to allocate two percent of GDP for defense and that he would even encourage Russia to do whatever they want with them.
Although the new Polish government allocates four percent of GDP per year for defense and should in theory be among the countries that Trump would help, it wants to rely more on European defense than on the possible whims of the US if Trump is in the White House again, but it will try. as much as possible to preserve strong transatlantic ties.
"The government will cooperate with anyone chosen by the Americans. We will not be offended by the decisions of the Americans," said Defense Minister Košnjak-Kamiš.
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