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NATO starts deploying troops as Russia races to win (asiatimes.com)

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[–] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

True but imo that's a lot less scary, at least for Europe. The police can't bear to fight on equal grounds, whenever they don't feel like they can safely bully people they quit. It happened with the Yellow Vest movement, despite them being disorganised and mostly non violent.

[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Do EU countries have an analogue to national guard? French have Gendermerie and the foreign legion, what about the rest?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Poland have WOT - Territorial Defence Force (although the polish acronym read in english is surprisingly accurate) - formation that was intended to be PiS private army, but as every single military endeavour of any Polish government after 1989 it failed its purpose and is currently made of 15 light infantry brigades with no heavier support. Considering how they are getting shat on by the professional soldiers, they are basically bodies with guns. Or, as Witcher book and game would put it:

Some more hits from wiki about them:

The creation of the Polish TDF relates to the reforms in the Baltic states' Territorial Defence Forces to provide response during the early stages of a hybrid conflict.[8]

So yeah, just a bodies with guns

The re-creation of the Territorial Defence Force was first announced in 2015 in reaction to the war in Donbass and concern that Poland's existing military would be ill-equipped to confront an adversary under similar conditions of low-intensity conflict.

Current state of Polish military is summarised here as: being afraid of Donbas militia.

TDF was declared the successor to the traditions of the Home Army National Command (1942–1945) of the Second World War, while being the de facto successor to the heritage of its forebears.

Reminder that Home Army en masse did next to nothing during entire war, their biggest action was needless and disastrous Warsaw uprising. So actually pretty fitting.

Besides responding to external military threats, the WOT will, according to the Defense Ministry, help strengthen Poland's "patriotic and Christian foundations".[15]

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[–] Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago

That's both hilarious and sad. On the other hand, it's still bodies with guns aimed at the revolution