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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by bgarbiak on Friday February 28, 2025 @03:59PM (#43210711)
Uhm, that Polish plane wasn’t shot down. Don’t spread silly conspiracy theories. Polish military spendings were rising steadily since long before the accident, but a significant increase happened after Russian full scale invasion on Ukraine.
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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by alephnerd on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:49PM (#43211846)
Fair point about the Smolensk Incident - confused it with the Netherlands incident - but it was that incident that sparked Poland's fears about Russia again [0], and most of Poland's military buildup and modernization only began in the 2012-13 period after the partnership with South Korea kicked in [1][2]

[0] - https://carnegieendowment.org/europe/strategic-europe/2015/0...

[1] - https://www.president.pl/president-komorowski/news/poland-so...

[2] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2020.1...

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