Another can of gasoline on the fire comes from Warsaw. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski (pictured) and leader of the ruling Law and Justice party said Warsaw was open to the stationing of US nuclear weapons on its territory should the need arise. A statement released in an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, quoted by Ukrainian media and circulated on social media in all languages of the world. Words that do nothing but heat up what is already a very tense situation. The risk of a “domino effect is high because the Kremlin’s narrative already feels “encircled by the former satellites of the Soviet Union, let alone if the US opens the nuclear umbrella in Poland. The deputy prime minister specified: “If the Americans asked us to keep US nuclear weapons in Poland, we would be open to it. It would significantly increase deterrence against Moscow, said Kaczynski, clarifying that the stationing of American nuclear weapons in Poland had not yet been discussed, but that “this could change soon. On the other hand, Kaczynski’s party has based its electoral success on patriotic (or rather nationalist) theses, according to which Germany, but especially Moscow, has never sufficiently acknowledged its “historical mistakes” towards Poland. A line very similar to that of Fidesz, the party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in Hungary. Among the countries of the former Soviet empire, Poland is undoubtedly the most Atlanticfriendly. “Warsaw is closer to Washington than to Berlin,” numerous historians comment on the positions of the ruling Polish party. Not only. Kaczynski also said he would be happy “if the Americans increase their presence in Europe from the current 100,000 troops to 150,000 in the future because Russia is becoming increasingly aggressive.” Therefore, for Warsaw, NATO should “do more; first with a peacekeeping mission, but above all to deliver the weapons that Zelenski urges ». Despite the risk that the conflict will spread like wildfire. Russia may thus feel cornered and entitled to respond with acts of colossal danger.
