Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski, in a speech in Berlin commemorating the beginning of World War Two, said it was a good decision “to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank” and said that agreements with Russia not to post NATO combat troops to eastern Europe, were to be ignored.
“We mustn’t let our hands be bound by commitments,” he said.
Komorowski confused nationalism and NATO’s aggressive expansion into Eastern Europe. He compared Russia’s incursions into Ukraine with 1930s-style “nationalism” and he urged the West to attack Moscow.
“We are witnessing the rebirth of nationalist ideology which violates human rights and international law under the cover of humanitarian slogans about protecting minorities,” Komorowski told the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Wednesday.
“We recognize this all too well from the 1930s,” said the president, using his speech to instill more German guilt at the 75th anniversary of the start of the war following the Nazis’ invasion of Poland.
The Polish president also accused the Russian Federation of the international violations that NATO has recently committed.
“The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over,” said Komorowski, a fierce critic of the Russian referendum in Crimea and militias that defend Russian minorities in eastern Ukraine against the junta in Kiev.
Speaking on the day European Union diplomats were due to decide when and how to implement new sanctions on Russia, the Polish president welcomed NATO’s decision at a summit in Wales to arm eastern European member states like Poland and the Baltics.
Source: Reuters