"The winds of history are blowing ever more strongly. Poland's leadership will rise to the occasion," Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said, urging European countries to boost defense spending.
To be fair, it really looked like we were about to achieve world peace like 15 years ago. EU didn’t expect russia to start a war etc… In my region they minimized the military over and over, as it seemed we had no enemies.
@lurch True, but it seems that since 1991 the Poles and Romanians have operated under a very different perspective and understanding of history. Probably because the threat was closer to their front door.
To be fair, it really looked like we were about to achieve world peace like 15 years ago. EU didn’t expect russia to start a war etc… In my region they minimized the military over and over, as it seemed we had no enemies.
@lurch it really looked like we were about to achieve world peace
A naieve way to read & think about history
@lurch True, but it seems that since 1991 the Poles and Romanians have operated under a very different perspective and understanding of history. Probably because the threat was closer to their front door.