The head of Polish diplomacy, Radoslav Šikorski, appealed to Germany to increase aid to Ukraine and send Taurus missiles to it, explaining that it is better to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine than to find him at the Polish borders.
In that case, he added, Putin, like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with Czechoslovakia before the Second World War, would use Ukrainian industry and its soldiers to attack the West.
In an interview with the German newspaper Bild, which is also published by the Polish portal Onet.pl, Šikorski warned that the West is facing a choice between the Russian army being defeated within the borders of Ukraine or the victorious Russian army being at the border of Poland.
"In case of victory, Putin will do the same with Ukraine as Hitler did with Czechoslovakia, he will use the industrial potential and people of Ukraine for further war. Half of the German tanks that attacked Poland in 1939 were actually Czech tanks. So if Putin conquers Ukraine, he will be stronger, and we will have a bigger problem," Šikorski said.
The Polish minister said that last winter, at the security conference in Munich, it seemed to him that German politicians were satisfied that they estimated that it would take Russia four to five years to be ready to attack Germany.
"But the point is that before Russia reaches Germany, it will have several countries on its way. Before the attack on Ukraine, Putin described that country as an artificial creation, similar to how former Russian President Medvedev speaks about Latvia today. We can no longer make those threats we perceive it as crazy chatter because these people have shown that they are capable of realizing crazy ideas," said the head of Polish diplomacy.
Radoslav Šikorski assessed, however, that there are no indications that official Moscow intends to use nuclear weapons in this war.
"There are no physical signs that they are removing nuclear warheads from the warehouse. We would have known that in advance. And Putin does not decide on the use of nuclear weapons alone, and the decision-making chain includes the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff," Šikorski said.
The Polish minister said that Putin (for the use of nuclear weapons) would have to convince his generals, and he reminded that the USA had strongly warned Russia not to reach for nuclear weapons.
According to the Polish minister, NATO members are not currently threatened by an attack from Russia, because it is not able to defeat Ukraine at the moment, and the fact that Moscow does not expect an attack from the West is confirmed by the fact that Russia had to withdraw part of its soldiers from the Kaliningrad region.
Sikorski is also convinced that the attitude of the US presidential candidate Donald Trump is not as black and white as some think, because he realized that his refusal to help Ukraine does not bring him popularity among voters, and he did not even protest the adoption of a new package of military aid to Ukraine of several dozen billions of dollars.
Shikorski said that Russia is not invincible, its supplies are not infinite, and wars in history have also ended due to the economic collapse of one of the parties, as happened to Germany in the First World War.
"I expect that in a year or two, real difficulties will appear in the Russian economy," said Šikorski.
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