What happens when Putin is gone?

[Scisca]

Psychotic said:

Scisca said:

EU doesn't mean jack shit. NATO? The protection of the Baltic States is a very sensitive and difficult topic. At least we don't share your sentiment in Poland. USA seems to be thinking differently as well considering they are helping us streghten the choke between Russia and Belarus that we and Lithuania have. We are increasing the spendings on our army and increasing the soldier count... Yeah, we share a totally different opinion on this topic and all this despite the fact that we are in a much, much better position than you are.

Also, they wouldn't have to launch a full scale attack on you. With 27% of the population being Russians, they could repeat "the green men" invasion and take over Latvia and Estonia.

Damn, I heard the Polish were a bit paranoid when if comes to Russia, but still... this is a bit too much.

We are different than you. While we value our independence and sovereignity, you welcome every single invader with arms wide open. Russians come? We love you Mother Russia! Germans come? Herzlich willkommen! We have a very different mentality

Still, we're not paranoid. We have two of our neighbours fighting a war, it's only natural we're gearing up. Moreover, Poland is stepping up and starts to challenge Russia in the region in general. The whole V4 Group cooperation - we are stating to turn our ABC strategy into life. This is our natural role as the second largest nation in the region, we want to be the leaders of Central Europe. We know that in order to be able to truely challenge Russia, we need to have an army that even they have to respect. That's why we're increasing the spendings on army, we plan to increase the number of soldiers by 50% in the upcoming years and we've started training our Civil Guard - a couple hundred thousands of armed people trained in the use of firearms, with knowledge of tactics, knowing how to support the regular army and how to use guerilla tactics. We're also doing our uttmost in trying to get American troops to Poland.

We are gearing up, but then again - we're not living in the safest of times and we'd rather be safe than sorry. Instead of relying on a piece of paper and begging for American help, we want to be able to fend for ourselves. We still need a couple of years to achieve this point, I hope we'll have that time.