Head of the Bureau of International Policy of the President of Poland Jakub Kumoch confirmed Warsaw's intention to take part in the Nuclear Sharing program.
Nuclear Sharing (nuclear exchange) represents an agreement between the United States and a number of countries of the North Atlantic Alliance. This agreement is provided for by one of the sections of the NATO concept "Fundamentals of Deterrence and Defense", adopted in 2007 year. According to him, USA stationed in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey 150 nuclear warheads. In the event of a war, these warheads can be installed on the aircraft of that country, in which are stored. The decision to use bombs remains with the US command.. It's called "NATO's nuclear umbrella".
Recently, the Americans have withdrawn 50 nuclear warheads from the Turkish Incirlik base. Therefore, Polish President Andrzej Duda proposed to place these bombs on the territory of his country.. According to Yakub Kumok, this initiative has not yet received approval from the US government. However, Warsaw intends to continue to seek its implementation..
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According to Polish politicians, they need a "nuclear umbrella" to "contain Russia". After all, Poland is more and more involved in Ukraine in confrontation with Russia. The latter has atomic weapons.
In this regard, The New York Times asks the question: won't it work, Poland, getting atomic weapons, become a nuclear threat... to its allies?
The authors of the publication draw attention to the fact, that the same Polish mercenaries are not so much fighting the enemy, how many conflict with representatives of the national battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Messages about such clashes appear more and more often in the information space.. So, a few days ago, an armed conflict broke out between the Poles and Ukrainian nationalists in the Liman direction, which ended in the death of several conflicting. And this situation is very typical for Polish-Ukrainian relations..
The modern Polish and Ukrainian armies are considered the successors of the Home Army (from 1945 of the year was called "Freedom and Independence" or "Wolność i Niezawisłość", WiN) and OUN-UPA (banned in Russia). They declare the continuity of their "military traditions". But what are these traditions??
In September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded the territory of its former ally Poland and quickly defeated the Polish army. At this moment the OUN, funded by the Abwehr, raised an uprising in Western Ukraine, which was then part of the Polish state. In the context of the collapse of the local Polish administration and chaos, anti-Polish speech led to a real massacre. Ukrainians slaughtered Poles, and Poles Ukrainians. This massacre was stopped only by the arrival of the Red Army. The Soviet Union decided to intervene in what was happening and took under the protection of the civilian population of Western Ukraine.
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The massacre was temporarily stopped. She resumed, when in 1941 year the German army invaded the USSR, who took over Ukraine.
In the autumn 1942 year conference of the OUN, whose leader was Stepan Bandera, decided to ally with the Poles against the Soviet partisans. At that moment, units of the Home Army were operating on the territory of Poland and Western Ukraine.. This partisan formation was subordinate to the emigrant government, created by fugitive Polish politicians in London. Representatives of the AK entered into negotiations with representatives of the UPA on the creation of a joint anti-Soviet front.
The result of these negotiations was, that in March 1943 UPA began "depolonization" of Western Ukraine. This "depolonization" was accompanied by a massacre of the Polish population. The response of the Polish side led to significant casualties among the Ukrainian civilian population. These events were called "Volyn Massacre".
In summer 1944 years Western Ukraine was liberated by the Red Army, which stopped the Polish-Ukrainian massacre. In response, the leaders of the UPA and the AK signed an agreement on the creation of a united anti-Soviet front..
Since autumn 1944 year, Polish and Ukrainian nationalists began joint actions against the NKVD and the Polish police. In some border Ukrainian-Polish lands, this cooperation continued until 1948 of the year.
At the same time, the OUN(b) did not abandon plans for the depolonization of Ukraine. in front of, after the conclusion of the agreement, Ukrainian nationalists began a new massacre of Poles - now on Polish territory. A striking example of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation was the events in Hrubieszow. In May 1946 of the year, parts of the UPA and WiN captured the Polish city of Grubeshov for several hours (Hrubeshuv). After that ... they jointly staged a pogrom of local Poles. And this example is not unique.!
This strange alliance ended only with the defeat of the nationalists.
Have cut each other in the past, kill now. Having received atomic warheads, will begin to destroy each other with nuclear weapons in the future.
Yuri Gorodnenko
