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Jon Ward's avatar

I remember a conversation I had in 2021 with a friend who works in the defence industry in Poland. He was bemoaning the way we were investing in foreign-made weapons and technology instead of developing our own arms industry. In that context, the renewed Russian invasion of 2022 was a gift to Poland, as is the current demonstration of US unreliability. We need to rise to that opportunity. European defence budgets will grow, we have the skills and infrastructure to attract that spending but we need to make it very clear that we’re not just a US staging-post. Maybe that’s what Mr Sikorski is thinking.

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BerlinCompanion: Kreuzberged's avatar

I absolutely applaud Sikorski's response. PiS, while riding high on their alleged patriotism and "Poland-first'ing", behave like small kids in the presence of the big bad US uncle. It is never easy to show that one has a spine and sometimes it requires responding firmly to threats, no matter how thickly veiled. The Musk guy is overstepping it in the firm belief that he had bought the world. And his answer proves that he is nothing but a spoiled bell-end who screams at others as long as they are at a safe distance from him. Revolting little man.

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