At the end of last week, the defense Minister of Poland Minister of defence of Poland, Anthony Macierewicz already “glorified” desire of all in the world to blame Russia , announced the recipe for the salvation of Poland on the alleged planned Russian aggression—volunteer battalions. What was immediately ridiculed by the Polish experts.
According to Makarevich, “the First phase of hybrid conflict is an attack on another country’s special forces,” — said Macierewicz, citing the example of Ukraine and explaining that as much as we used to call this attack the division — “little green men” or fighters of the breakaway republics is just the Russian special forces. The troops of territorial defense will meet with them first.” Macierewicz added that this concept of the volunteer territorial defense appeared to him long ago when he was preparing to take the post of defense Minister in 2014.
Now the Minister—Russophobe intends to implement his concept, and ordered to prepare by the methods “as close as possible to the special forces” civilians. which is Colonel Wieslaw Kukula, who commanded a regiment of special destination in Wroclaw.
The fact that Russia is not going to attack Poland—it’s just not necessary—the Polish defense Minister modestly “did not notice”. But the very concept of “Turbat” has already provoked laughter among the Polish experts
Well-known Polish and part American expert Marek Wercinski, who is the head of the section “Security” of the analytical centre of the Warsaw Polityka Insight, in his article on the pages of the local newspaper Polityka in tatters carries a new concept this defense.
“Spetsnaz is not a specific organizational unit, and common name, which is used in Russia and post-Soviet countries, including Ukraine, special units of different types of troops, police, border guards and other law enforcement agencies. Uniform of spetsnaz, the Russians have no: each type of troops has its own special forces.
To best equipped, trained and “honored” in combat are special forces of the airborne troops gathered in the 45th guards brigade, which is stationed in Kubinka. In turn, the closest to Poland is the 2nd special forces brigade in Pskov. In the Kaliningrad region are the special forces of the marine corps. In General, the Russian special forces serve 15,000 people. For comparison, the Polish “commando” — about 3 000 people. The number of troops of the territorial defense will make up about 35 000, and the first three teams in the border area in the East 3 000.
Modern methods of training special forces take into account all of the scope of application of these forces and, of course, not limited to the use of the entrenching tool. The Russians have learned the insights of the operations in Chechnya, Budyonnovsk and the release of the hostages in the Dubrovka theater.
Lightning-fast seizure of Crimea in 2014 showed that the current forces are able to act “quietly and efficiently”,” — explains his Minister, a military expert, adding that his vaunted Turbat just no chance to Russian.
“Not to mention the fact that the selection in the Russian special forces requires incredible physical and intellectual forms, which have very few. Meanwhile, in the Polish territorial defense forces will be allowed to the candidates category D (not fit for military service in peacetime), reservists after 12 years of service on the contract, or people who do not serve in the army. To compare the two-week course preparation and field trips on weekends, shooting with the training of special forces is to insult the special forces who allegedly are so appreciated by the leadership of the Ministry of defence.
Another factor that will not allow the creation of territorial defence forces special forces is the limited financial, technical and human resources. In Poland there is no staff for training in the format of the special forces even the three brigades of the territorial defence (whose size is three times inferior to the brigade of the regular army), to say nothing about learning all 35,000 people.
There is a risk that the plan will fail or will be implemented in part, and the territorial defense forces is not a copy of the special forces, and caricature. Burly lame “commando” with the category D, who came to the service for a few hundred zlotys monthly increase to the salary for their willingness, will be able to a maximum of once a month to shoot, but his knowledge of the area will be limited to expensive in the store. And God forbid that it ever ran with a two-meter big man out of this Russian special forces,” adds Marek.
Why Russia must attack on little Poland, they have questions does not cause, the prosecution and the expert and the Minister alone: Russia is too aggressive in relation to the “peaceful” Europe. However, in contrast to more adequately perceiving the reality of the American Minister of defence of Poland, Anthony Macierewicz known as the author of many scandalous statements. Thus, the Polish Minister has publicly stated that Russia is involved in international terrorism and, in particular, to the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in 2010. “At the moment, terrorism is used against Western countries as a tool for provoking a flow of migration with the aim of destabilizing the European continent. It is worth remembering that Poland was the first victim of terrorism in the 30-ies After the Smolensk disaster, we can say that Poland became the first victim of terrorism in modern conflict that is played out before our eyes”, — quotes the words of Mazarevica “Radio Poland”.
Speaking about the Katyn massacre of 1940, the Minister of Macierewicz noted that “the genocide lies at the origins of the current situation in Russia.” He added that “does not indicate any specific actions of the government”. “The Russian people still bears the stamp of silence on what happened in the Soviet period to their ancestors,” — said the politician. Another violent protest was caused by the statement of Makarevicha that supposedly “Russia is to blame for the Volyn massacre”. We are talking about mass extermination of poles by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. Just these days the Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution that defines these events as genocide of poles. Moreover, Makarevich in his words confirms that poles were killed by Ukrainian nationalists, supporters of Bandera and Shukhevych. But, he said, you still blame Russia.
The official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on this statement as a rhetorical question: “is There historical events or natural phenomena, in which Russia is not to blame?”. The answer of Mary can easily become a real one, not rewritten history, two and a half centuries ago, our army marked the beginning of a wonderful tradition: 9 Oct 1760 Russian troops during the Seven years war the first time occupied Berlin. Since then, each time attempts to “enlightenment Europe” win “wild Russia” our troops, passing through Poland, stayed in Berlin, then in Paris, producing a stable complex, on the one hand to spit in Russian, and with another shout help — the Russians are coming.
P. S. the Comment to photo: note – a gas mask without a filter. Our strike force is not necessary in principle, it breathes everywhere, even after the application itself is a grenade that is hanging on a belt. And how casually stuck the blade into the stone floor? Well and appearance. Must be similar to you-Know-Who.
