Polish President: Moscow’s imperial ambitions are obvious to everyone
Moscow’s imperial ambitions are obvious to everyone; therefore, the NATO’s eastern flank should be strengthened, said Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with Bild am Sonntag.
When asked how dangerous the Russian president is due to threats that Russia poses for Poland and other countries of the eastern part of the EU, Duda answered, "Over the last ten years, Russia twice forcibly changed European borders."
"In 2008 it attacked Georgia, and in 2014 it attacked Ukraine. In both cases, the legal boundaries of the two countries have still not been restored. Lech Kaczyński predicted the development of the situation, in 2008, in Tbilisi. He said: “Today it is Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine and the day after tomorrow the Baltic States, and soon it will possibly be my country, Poland,” Duda noted.
He added that the key factors in NATO are “solidarity, overall responsibility and expenditures.” Commenting on the cooperation with Germany, Duda stressed that “security is also energy security," which is why he also expected solidarity in that regard.