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My money's on Poland.
If the Russians invade Poland, the Muscovites will end up in a hornet's nest. However, I could see the asswipe, Vlad, making attempt to illegally occupy the Suwalki Gap.
Poland is ready for it, so probably not. Putin isn't one to start something with someone he knows can fight back. He wants a punching bag.
Like Trump and Venezuela.
Then again, people around him tell him what he wants to hear. Like Ukrainians will welcome his troops in....
That country is as mired in right-wing reactionary dysfunction as any of Russia's proxies. And they're larded up with debts in an EU that loves to punish poorer countries with austerity during economic contraction.
All of Europe is hanging on the sustained global bull market. If that flags, you're going to see more than just Poland going to shit very quickly.
The Russians attacked Poland with only two years of independence under their belt, broken economy and their military was a shambles composed of equipment from the German, Austrian and Russian occupation. Somehow they stopped the fucking Bolsheviks and threw them back. You fail to understand Polish history and their mindset when it involves Russia. They despise the Russians and do not trust them. Only two countries stopped the fucking Russians, Finland and Poland. I hope Ukraine can hold out and do the same.
Wait, are you talking about the Second Polish Republic of 1918? What does that have to do with Polish military readiness in 2025?
Karol Nawrocki is a football hooligan and partisan hack more interested in pushing a Catholic theocracy on his people than improving its economic outlook or its domestic security. The only war he's going to successfully wage is on his country's husk of a labor movement, as he turns the guns of the state on their migrant population.
He's building up the same nativist police state as his peers in the US with a tiny fraction of the budget. It's going to be a death sentence for their domestic economy and interstate trade. If anyone's neglecting the history of the country, its this fascist chauvinist POS. When the Polish government falls, it'll be Nawrocki's teeth on the curb.