Poland rushes troops to border, Belarus denies helicopter violation
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Poland said on Tuesday it was rushing troops to its eastern border after accusing Belarus, Russia's closest ally, of violating its airspace with military helicopters.

State news agency Belta quoted him on Tuesday as saying that the Poles “should pray that we’re holding onto (the Wagner fighters) and providing for them. Otherwise, without us, they would have seeped through and smashed up Rzeszow and Warsaw in no small way. So they shouldn’t reproach me, they should say thank you.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Invading Poland is an interesting strategy that I’m sure has never been tried before. Let’s see if it’s successful.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ah, I see he’s considering doing the “fuck around” stage. He’ll discover that the “find out” stage is mandatory after that.

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile Poland lives in a constant state of Wishing a Motherfucker Would, building up an arsenal and fostering the will to use it. They have no intention of just being a speed bump this time.

    • TornadoRex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      According to the U.S. military, the presence of U.S. special operations personnel in the targeted base elicited a response by coalition aircraft, including AC-130 gunships, F-22 Raptor and F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, MQ-9 Reaper unmanned combat aerial vehicles, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, and B-52 bombers.[6][14][7] Nearby American artillery batteries, including an M142 HIMARS, shelled Syrian forces as well.[14]

      Holy shit

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Casualties:

        United States: None 1 SDF fighter wounded

        Syrian claim: 55 killed
        U.S. claim: Approximately 100 killed
        SOHR claim: 68 killed
        Unofficial Russian claims: 80-100 killed, 200 wounded

        This was Wagner, so I don’t think this is as threatening as Luka does.

  • scripthook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they start sending Wagner into Poland for special operations but claim it’s a private military in order to provoke NATO from initiating article 5. This way they can blame NATO for starting WW3

    • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wagner poses a risk to Putin, and Putin is a little coward, so they have been isolated to a camp in Belarus as a sort of exile instead of him attempting a complete confrontation with them.

      Putin and Lukashenko finds a use for this (for them) unfortunate situation by using them as a threat to Poland, even though Wagner most likely plays no part at all in all of this. Helps saving the face of Putin and Lukashenko by even suggesting that this is something that Wagner would be even remotely interested in doing for them, while at the same time (seemingly) taunting Poland for the internal consumption of Russians, who perceives these sorts of emotional tantrums to be very macho and becoming of “strong men” rulers.

      There is no actual risk of Wagner entering Poland, except perhaps if they were forced at gunpoint to cross the border by the Russians.