Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday that his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing security situation in Europe.
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Tusk told the country’s Sejm, the lower house of parliament, that the military training would create a reserve force that is “adequate to possible threats”.
The speech was focused on the international security situation. Poland is located along Nato’s eastern flank and is deeply concerned by the war in Ukraine.
There are fears that if Ukraine is defeated, Russia will turn its imperial ambitions next to countries like Poland, which it controlled during the 19th century and during the Cold War.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland’s largest opposition party, the conservative Law and Justice, said a mental shift in society would also be needed in addition to the military training of men.
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“We will have a return to the chivalric ethos and to the fact that men should also be soldiers, that is, be able to expose themselves, even to death,” Kaczynski said.