Daily media review of the safety and defense sector.
Jędrzej Bielecki: Rzeczpospolita: “Defense: Europe will do without the USA”
“Europeans within several days want to agree on the plan to repel Russia’s attack even without American relief. British Prime Minister Starmer is to meet Trump on Thursday. The calendar is tight. On Wednesday, Macron passed through his Monday meeting with Trump from European leaders.
On Thursday, Trump will be the British prime minister. On Sunday, the bosses of the most important countries of free Europe will meet in London, and everyone will participate in the summit of Brussels on March 6. His conclusions are to be the basis for publishing a dozen or so days later by the European Commission of the “White Book” regarding defense, i.e. the action plan that the community intends to take.
This rush is explained by the words of the future German Chancellor Merz -Trump does not care Europe. Step by step we have to become independent of the United States. It is not even known whether NATO will survive in its current shape until the next summit in June. Something similar has not yet been heard from the mouth of the head of the government of post -war Germany.
The mood is not the same in all countries. Our country fully participates in mobilization for European defense. On Monday, Prime Minister Tusk revealed after the meeting with the Chairman of the European Council Costa the initiative of the peak in London.
How ambitious are Europeans’ plans? The departing head of German diplomacy compared this to the fund that was mobilized for the reconstruction of the pandemic. It is about the equivalent of the annual Pentagon budget. “
Money.pl: “Ukraine can forget.” Donald Trump also talks about Russia “
“US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Ukraine” may forget about NATO “and that he would have to make concessions to Russia.
He also assessed that Europe should send peace forces to Ukraine and give it a security guarantee, but he promised US support in this matter. When asked whether Ukraine’s concessions against Russia will be necessary, Trump responded in affirmative.
He refused to mention them, but added: – I can tell you that (it is about) NATO – you can forget about it. I think it was probably the reason why it all began – he said. When asked about what US security guarantees they are able to offer, the US president said that it would not be “too much”, because Europe should take care of it. “
Mateusz Roszak: Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: “European mobilization is taking shape. The Union wants to strengthen the reinforcement “
“Twice a week, European leaders will talk about security. Brussels is more and more boldly talking about investments in the arms industry. The US pressure of the Russian-Ukrainian war dared EU leaders to bolder defense declarations as soon as possible.
In addition to working on securing the needs of the Ukrainian army in the event of the US withdrawal from Kiev, Brussels is preparing a large investment package in the European arms industry. We will focus on areas of European strategic meaning, such as European integrated air defense, deep ability and precise impact, drones and unmanned aircraft, missiles and ammunition, and of course the military use of artificial intelligence, the head of the European Commission was announced by Ursula von der Leyen.
This package and further support for Ukraine will be the subject of two peaks. The first is planned for Sunday in London and will take place after today’s conversations of the British Prime Minister Starmer with President Trump. The second, appropriate EU peak was convened by the head of the European Council to March 6. Then we are to know the details of the defense industry strengthening plan. “
Bankier.pl: “Tajwan: the Chinese army began maneuvers using acute ammunition without notification”
“The Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense condemned China on Wednesday for determining without prior notification of zones off the coast of Taiwan to conduct shooting exercises. The Chinese army also did so earlier near Australia. The Chinese army designated the training area in the waters of about 40 nautical miles from the coast of the cities of Kaohsung and the Pingtung poviat to conduct shooting exercises using acute ammunition – Taiwanese Ministry of National Defense said. In this area there are important sea and air bases.
The largest port in the country is in Kaohsig. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that such actions taken “without prior notification (…) constitute a gross violation of international norms” and “a serious threat to the safety of international flights and ships nearby.”
Antoni Rybczyński: Gazeta Polska: “Branch GRU GRUPLE Europe”
“Russia is already fighting a war with the West. The war of the shadows, (…), weakens the enemy before he decides to aggression. The Kremlin treats this priority, as evidenced by strengthening and giving greater permissions a special GRU unit conducting destabilizing activities in Europe: from attacks, sabotage, to disinformation.
Presenting on February 12 a report of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, its boss stated that all over Europe one should count with subsequent “files of arson, vandalism and destruction” undermining Western support for Ukraine.
A few days later, Latvian services warned the same. Russian intelligence services are developing the possibilities of carrying out more and more sabotage acts in Europe. This is part of Moscow’s preparations for a possible military confrontation with NATO in the long term – according to the report.
This is another of the many alarming signals that have appeared over the past year in Europe. Last year was the most hot when it comes to the activity of Russian intelligence on the continent. Not so much espionage as a subversive, sabotage. Fires in Poland and Finland, a series of railway accidents in Sweden and the Czech Republic, an explosion at the BAE Systems ammunition factory in Wales, a fire at the Berlin factory of the Diehl defense company. This is just a clip from a series of Russian intelligence operations. It is a work of a special intelligence unit created in Russia a year earlier to destabilize Europe. “
WP.P.:GEN. Komornicki alerts: Poland is not prepared “
“The former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army General Leon Komornicki was a guest on Wednesday on Radio ZET, where he was asked, among others, whether Poland was prepared for a possible attack of Russia.
No, today we do not have a defined national security strategy, and this is the pillar of the state defense system. We do not have a defined state defense system, following this political purpose in this state of state defense. We do not have – adequate to the nature of Russian aggression – operational tactics, we do not have a defined doctrine of state defense – said the military. Asked if we have the ability to repel Russia’s air attack and effective counter -law, he answered.
We should have such abilities in the form of Israel, only a much larger – built dome, which is able to repel massive air strikes at every level of the state – emphasized General Komornicki. We should have spatial air defense, not object -oriented, because you still have to defend society and nation, because this is subordinated to the defense of the state – he added. (…) asked about whether Putin can hit a country like Poland today, the general said that “there is no such need today.” In my opinion, we have five years for this – this is a minimum, it can be more.
It depends on how the situation in Ukraine develops, how American-Russian negotiations will end, what peace and guarantees for this peace will be negotiated- he said, emphasizing: In the first place the Russians will not hit Poland, but the Baltic countries. When asked whether it is necessary to restore universal consumption to the army, General Komornicki replied briefly: yesterday. Immediately!