Poland presents plan to fortify border to Russia, Belarus

Defense officials in Poland have shared details on a plan to strengthen the country’s eastern border. They say Poland is at constant risk of hostile actions by Russia and its ally, Belarus.

NATO member Poland on Monday elaborated on a plan to reinforce anti-drone surveillance and construct fortifications along some 700 kilometers (430 miles) of its border with Russian exclave Kaliningrad, and Russian ally Belarus.

The system, called Shield-East, is to be completed in 2028 and aims to protect Poland from hostile actions across the border, which up to now have included pushing migrants illegally into the country, an EU member.

The presentation of the plan comes as many countries from the former “Eastern Bloc” increasingly fear Russian aggression in view of Moscow’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

TimeNaan,

The real reason rhey’re doing this is to stop refugees from getting in.

FlyingSquid,
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I think being on Russia’s border might have a little more to do with it than refugees. The refugees would be coming from Ukraine and they are not fortifying that border.

Justas,
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To play the devil’s advocate, Poland and the Baltic states received a lot of third country refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, etc.) from Russia and Belarus before the war in Ukraine.

It was a hybrid warfare campaign where Russians would advertise how easy it is to cross the border and how good life is on the other side. They would also help them get to the border.

Those refugees quickly overran Baltic refugee centers and caused political instability.

DarkThoughts,

He means the brown skinned refugees that Belarus funnels into Poland.

Badeendje,
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Have you not been paying attention. The Baltics and Poland are constantly being gps jammer from kalingrad. It is a military stronghold.

At the same time Russia is occupying parts of Moldavia and Georgia while invading Ukraine and committing atrocities by the dozens.

Poland is wants peace so they prepare for war.

FlyingSquid,
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Hope it works out for them better than the Maginot Line worked out for the French.

MelastSB,

They don’t border Belgium, it’ll be fine

Carrolade,

It actually did accomplish its goal of preventing the Germans from punching through from that direction. It just wasn’t sufficient when recent technological and organizational advances were taken into account.

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