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The head of President Andrzej Duda’s National Security Bureau (BBN), Dariusz Łukowski, has warned that Poland only has enough ammunition to defend itself “for a week or two” if it was attacked by Russia

But his remarks have been criticised as “outrageous” by a deputy defence minister, who says they are not true and will be exploited by Poland’s enemies.

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Even if this is true (very big IF), why would you publish that? The OpSec makes no sense. Are they trying to bait Russia into attacking to get a unified response? That seems like an incredibly risky move.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

Political infighting is the reason but this is likely true. Most countries of this size have reserves for weeks of conventional warfare at most unless they massively stockpile.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

If you cannot achieve things going in the internal channels you sometimes have to go public, so that the public outrage forces change.

As for Russia, i am sure they have a better idea of each EU countries stockpiles than some of the military experts in these countries.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Obviously to provoke oponent reaction. Nothing risky at all since we have not invented teleportation yet. You underestimate amount of satelites looking at russia border after posting this information.