#nato-security

#nato-security

Since President Donald Trump decided to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War, to more accurately reflect how tough he is, I suggest we rebrand the White House as The Waffle House to more accurately reflect Trump's incessant waffling when it comes to actually doing something to deter Vladimir Putin's steadily increasing onslaught on Ukraine, not to mention his recent drone incursion into America's NATO ally Poland.

A large contingent of the Russian Armed Forces is already deployed in Belarus, on the doorstep of Europe, to train for open warfare against NATO starting this Friday. The Zapad 2025 exercise will include the development of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, a much more dangerous weapon than the drones with which Moscow tested NATO defenses in Poland on Wednesday. The Kremlin maintains that these maneuvers are not directed against anyone,

Backed by the populist rightwing opposition Law and Justice party, which ruled Poland between 2015 and 2023, Karol Nawrocki unexpectedly won Poland's presidential election after running a campaign under a Trumpesque slogan of Poland first, Poles first. The historian turned politician had met the US president before the election, securing his highly prized endorsement and presenting himself as someone who could safeguard Poland's interests with the conservative US administration.