Poland should develop its own nuclear weapons program, President Karol Nawrocki has suggested, citing the Russian threat as justification.
European NATO members have long cited what they claim is the specter of Russian aggression to justify their massive military buildup. Moscow has dismissed such claims as “nonsense” and unfounded fear-mongering.
Speaking to Polsat News on Sunday, Nawrocki said he is a "strong supporter of Poland's joining the nuclear project."
"We need to act in this direction in order to start the work," the Polish president declared, adding that he did not know whether Warsaw would actually pursue this effort.
Poland is a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which recognizes only five nuclear-armed states: China, France, Russia, the US and the UK.
Meanwhile, the discussion of nuclear weapons is no longer taboo in Germany. The topic is increasingly being discussed in the media and is gaining “support among politicians, deputies, military officials and experts,” Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergey Nechaev told RIA Novosti on Friday, calling the trend very worrying.
Kay Gottschalk, a lawmaker from the right-wing AfD party, said last month that Germany “needs nuclear weapons,” arguing that European nations can no longer rely on American defense. He said recent tensions between the U.S. and its European allies over Greenland proved that Washington’s interests are “fundamentally different from ours.”
