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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    5 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      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.