Can Poland’s Military stop Russia?
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2022
- Poland has dealt with the threat of invasion for most of their history, this is nothing new. They've been the single most important support for Ukraine and NATO since the start of the war. Is it true, he who controls eastern Europe controls the world? How can Poland after years of defunding their military's hope to stop and invasion what is their plan?
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Hey spare parts army thanks for watching! What are your thoughts on the Polish armed forces? Why do you think their country has always been so important geopolitically throughout history? Follow me here: instagram.com/cappyarmy/
Cappy, You have to be insane to consider such a conflict. Or is it.... CLICKBAIT?
srsly Z's are takin t 55's and ppsh from wax storage. Kaliningrad is empty. Stop scaring ppl for moneyz, you prck.
Love Poland from Hungary
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Poland does have a government that has replaced most judges and replaced with their people. For the EU, Poland and Hungary are a bit too Putin like. They also receive the most amount of EU subsidies and investment with Hungary second which makes business sense if not political.
Pff what are crazy idea about the polish defence forces being used to control the country. We have better solutions for that copied from Russia, Hungary and big ass corruption problems. With 70 percent of our budget lacking oversight i think that we are in a similar situation to Russia that on paper yes everything is ok but when it comes to war we are done for(but as always the our soilders have pretty big morales so we'll fight to the end). In addition the Mig 29 are death traps (passed from the germans to the US for testing then to south amercia then to germany for scrapping just to be bought by poland) and it is amazing that they are flown
Our western military underestimated bad Russian personnel is.
Just a friendly reminder: We were NEVER in the soviet union, only under their influence, might seem like a minor detail, but it is HUGE.
INFLUENCE? You were in WARSAW PACT, under Russian boot for 50 years, until they decide to let you go!
we were bloody occupied. for 50 years. that is what is was and will NEVER happen again.
Indeed. The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries are often confused in the (former) West, and for somewhat good reason: with a few notable exceptions, most Warsaw Pact countries might as well have been part of the Soviet Union proper, they were so heavily-controlled puppet states - and as such, appeared largely the same from the outside.
@@mnxs I understand, but as a Pole, this carries the same weight to me as saying: "Polish concentration camps" when referring to Nazi concentration camps (said multiple times by western media). Moreover I would say I am the same annoyed when people refer to Nazi war crimes as German war crimes, or genocide. We need accuracy in history or we are bound to repeat mistakes of the past.
@@yakumanification You are right about "Polish" Concentration Camps, but the blatant truth is that "not that all Germans were Nazis, but all Nazis were Germans"...Of course, I am talking about Germany because many non-Germans from other countries were Nazis too.
Poland assumes it's allies wouldn't help.
Poland assumes that in reality it stands alone.
These are historical lessons.
Now there is nato we have amazing contacts with our neighbors and its whole different story then everyone was thinking about themselves now we know that helping is key to defend a whole europe
It's not a bad mindset, if you can't defend yourself then you're a liability, but if you prepare to fight alone then when allies to show up your more of an asset to them rather than a victim.
1,000 K2s should help
@@skitif5072 You think so ?
Then look at the actions of the countries that govern the European Union
Germany /France/. The Netherlands/Belgium hinder rather than help Ukraine and earlier Germany built critical infrastructure with the Russians directly threatening the security of Europe, which indirectly led to the current war
Yes Poland after everything that happend take every country as thier enemy.
Don't forget words from an interview in 2019, the America's Navy SEAL's general said: "My recipe for the best, unbeatable army in the world? Our (American) technology and logistics with Polish soldiers using it.."
Not only Polish.
Cossack bravery has always been admired in Poland
We even have an old saying:
"you are a Cossack"
It's always better to find a fool who will bear the risk for you:) why risk your own life when someone else can do This. This is happening in Ukraine, Poland is next in line.
@@SHIVUS111Wery well said the disgusting truth
And fools are happy to be dying cheared up by their masters...
18:46 my father told me a story when i was a kid that this way of salute is a reference to a polish soldier who lost 3 fingers during a battle but still saluted to his commander
It is difficult to determine the origin and time of creation of the salute that is currently in force. Most likely, it first appeared during the Napoleonic Wars (Battle of Raszyn). However, there is a legend related to its history.
An unspecified adjutant lost two fingers as a result of the shrapnel explosion. Despite his wounds, he reached the commander and saluted him with a bloody hand with two fingers, and then died. According to various sources, the commander was to be Poniatowski, Kościuszko or Chłopicki. In memory of the heroic deed, this way of saluting was introduced in the entire army.
There are various myths about this salute. One Russian officer was reported to say, in times when Poland was partitioned between Russia, Prussia and Austria, that "Poles salute with two fingers because in the others they hold a rock to be thrown at you."
In Poland I have many friends, I worked with them, travelled with them. We have common enemy, common history, common businesses. We are allies forever. Greetings from Lithuania 🇱🇹
Forever bro. If Russia attack you, we must be first to help you
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Im pure polish but my family name is lithuanian 😁 respect to you Brother!
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Good luck NATO have decided you'll be next to be sacrificed.
Poles generally are very impressive people. We Germans sometimes joke about them, but in my eyes this is mostly out of envy and respect. They are hard working, highly motivated and just get things done. Not to mention the many times in history when polish soldiers fought very bravely and effective in wars and where only later betrayed, abandoned or sold off by their allies or political leaders.
Thank you - good to hear some honest opinion from a decent German! I know many good Germans and have some friends there! Good that the crazy history is almost over
@@KrissowskiM History has brought us in a strange situation. We live next to each other for more than thousand of years and still the border between poland and france seems much more of a parting line than the border between us and France. I hope, this will change in the future.
Last year, we visited Poland twice, even if it was just for a single day each. Your cities are beautiful and your people are extremely hospitable! On one of the trips, we even liked the Polish city beyond the border much more than the German one.
And finally - I wouldn't exist, if it wasn't for Polish people. In 1945, my 16 year old grandfather visited a school for ship's cooks in Elblag. His school wanted him and the other students to evacuate with the later famous Gustloff. A teacher was smart and instead took him and the class and evacuated them by foot all the way home. On their journey, they where often accomodated by Polish people, who after all that Germany had done to them still had pity with a class of school students and helped them, let them sleep in their barn or gave them some food. I am very thankfull to them!
Is that you Chewie?
Thanks for pointing out that we made our shit together with our hard work, then some more and then even more of it. I'm from the former Eastern Prussia region, so I do know a lot of Germans. Also, my grandma's parents were German and half-German.
With your german reliability and our polish adaptability we could overcome any existing obstacle, I think.
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As a Polish guy, I will fight to the end no backing up from my people and for the rest of the free world
Hey,
Thank you for the positive remarks about Poland history and defence.
For some not very well understood reasons Poland usually gets very bad press, sometimes far fetched from the truth and reality. Poland history is tragic and interesting and unique at the same time. The fact that Poland as a country and the state was resurrected by its own people so many times after total annihilation means something.
I hope Poland with its military will contribute to Europe's peace and stability. Interesting subject for your vlog, with possible links to current situations, could be Polish- Russion 1920 war, when Polish army saved Europe from communism.
Best regards,
Two finger salute also has a legend dating back to Napoleon war's. Story goes that a messenger was wounded during delivery of a message, he lost almost all fingers in his right hand, once he arrived to officer who he was supposed to deliver a message, he saluted with his remaining fingers (Normally, he would salute with full hand in UK style), shortly after he passed away do to his wounds. Officer in charge was so impressed that he ordered all his troops to salute with two fingers in honor of this messenger, for fulfilling his duty despite the wounds.
When my kids were in school ,when I picked them up afterschool I would ask "What did you learn today"? When they got older and surly (tweens) one of them answered "nothing". So I drove around the block, and pulled back in front of the school and told her to get out ,go back in and learn something, (I wasn't paying all of those property/school taxes to raise dumb kids) I got the eye roll and a break down what she did all day. If my dad asked me what I learned today I would recount your post about the 2 finger salute.
Beat me to it! EDIT: The two finger salute was actually in honour of a past greatly respected general/military leader who had been injured in battle and spent the rest of his career only being able to salute that way - as mentioned below as well - my father who lived through conscription echoed this to me the other day too.
I frequently use the "One Finger Salute" towards Putin. 😉🖕
I think it's also the Cub Scout salute in the U.S.
It is not clear when the two-fingers salute appeared in Polish military forces. Some see its origin in Tadeusz Kościuszko's 1794 oath. Others state that it came from Polish soldiers in the Congress Kingdom army around 1815 (partitioned Poland). At that time, the Tsar's Viceroy in Poland, Grand Duke Constantine, said that Poles would salute him with two fingers and use the other two to hold a stone to throw at him. Another legend attributes the salute to the remembrance of Battle of Olszynka Grochowska in 1831, when a soldier, who had lost in the battle all his fingers but the middle and index ones, saluted his superior with the wounded hand and died after it.
During Second World War the salute was a subject of some controversy, as most of the Allied officers were unfamiliar with the gesture and saw it as disrespectful. Polish soldiers serving in the British Army were ordered to use an open palm salute instead.
Coming from a lithuanian, Poland is probably our best chance of survival in case of a russian invasion. Respect to my neighbors
ALL of NATO would come to your defense, Liutauras. Being a member of NATO grants you that protection. You see how NATO is assisting a NON-NATO nation (Ukraine) that does not have Article 5 protection, yet is sending BILLIONS of dollars worth of aid. However, Lithuania absolutely DOES benefit from the collective defense outlined in Article 5. If Russian boots are in Lithuania, so will be US boots along with the rest of NATO. At that point, NATO boots may be in Russia as well as an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members. I cannot think of a more surefire way of kicking off World War 3 than Russia attacking a NATO member such as Lithuania.
Im glad i see more positive comments from lithuanians recently, few years ago I heard poland is your least favorite neighbour but now it seems we all care more about our common future rather than historical wounds
I want to be optimistic but after Ukraine Baltics will be next. They absolutely are surrounded from all directions.
The best is to be Russia friendly country and you do not need NATO colonialism for protection from NATO created threat!
Lol "NATO created threat"... Remind me how many countries or their territories were annexed by NATO? You cant really be friends with pathological maniac who sees threats everywhere...
Love this information that Poland has had modernisation, much respect for the Polish. Everyone I have ever worked along side are a class act. Love from England.
cheers bro , i came here when i was 23 , 17 years ago , with 25 pounds in my pocket that i borrowed and was need to give back to my auntie , 3 years ago i menage to buy my own house , well 26 years mortgage but still , believe me in the times of need i would fight for England exactly the same as i would fight for Poland , even that i`m not so young any more , i have met many people , many friendly and open minded and some hostile from some reason right from the start , well theirs dicks in every country i guess :p
any way greetings from Preston North End , your words means a lot, cheers
I rarely see a good movie about Poland and its military power. Quite up to date and in general very good! Thanks for putting effort in making it!
Love and respect to Poland from Australia
We with you poland
The Hienas of Europe
Yeah up the poles 💪🏽🇦🇺🇵🇱
Thaks grom Poland
Oh i know story of one Polish veteran who was in Australia for so many years he is living near to me
God bless Poland..... respect from Finland
And respect to Finland. I had an opportunity to study in Finland.
Great education. Kiitos :)
Sorry for my Finnish language, I did try ❤️
U 2
Best wishes from Poland 🇵🇱
God bless Finland ….. respect from Poland ✊
Oh, I like Finland so much, so beautiful and civilized country. I learned anaesthesiology from 2 Finnish textbooks, the best in the world! Finland won a great victory, defending its independence from stalinists in 1940. This was a great feat. It is good to have such a warrior in NATO. Respect from Poland.
I am a HUGE fan of Poland 🇵🇱 !
I have been learning a lot about Ukraine and Russia and NATO lately, but will watch whatever current events I can find about Poland (English speaking only)
No one is ever 100% ready for War, but Poland is working very hard to get there. They are building really quick and have a good plan to prepare.
Poland's ability to endure pain and survive is so remarkable . As a child playing with toy soldiers in my back yard I met a kindly old man who corrected me as to how to set up an assault force. Years later I realized I was being taught by General Anders of the Polish Free Brigade and hero of Monte Cassino .
Oh boy I wish to hear morę about it. He's a hero in Poland
Wow! Really?
No way...dude... if I had a story like that I would never had to pay for my beer in Poland.
Amazing!
@@JM-mh1pp You are right I had beers bought for me all the time in Poland
As a Lithuanian I consider them as friends and allies. Polish people are good people.
Za wolność naszą I waszą Litwa i Korona zawsze razem
That's nice to read. I thought that you hate us. Nice to see that it's not the case.
@@pawelszewczenko6723 The only ones that hate you are the soviet era lovers that live in Wilno. They hate us too :D . We also hate them back :D
@@pawekurowski Mówimy różnymi językami, ale jesteśmy tacy sami. Myślę, że mamy ten sam pogląd na świat. Cieszę się, że mam takich sąsiadów.
Pozdrowienia z Polski Bracie!
Nobody in Europe knows what it's like to fight for independence like Poles. We will never let history repeat itself. Glory to the heroes! ❤️🇵🇱
Once worked with this university student from Poland. He had military training despite being young, apparently he did a military academy instead of the normal high school. He told us how during their free time they would practice on assembling and maintaining rifles and military equipment. Ome of my colleague asked why poles are so fixated in military doctrine and the kid just smiled and said “Russia”. Oh how he was right…
Right about what?They have invented an enemy for themselves and are fighting it in their fantasies.The action of Polish propaganda about "evil Russia" and nothing else
Good friend of mine ,member of Croatian Special Forces had training,education with Polish Army. He said they are very capable,determend and well equiped Army. I hope Russia will live them alone,but if they attack Poland, they will learn in a hard way that Polish people do know and do remember history,and they will not alow to repeat it self.
I truly respect everything Polish nation did for Ukraine refugies and Ukraine as a Country.
Wish them peace and prosperity.
Best regards from Croatia.
Tak jest bratko.
You are too naive. Poland is not Ukraine, and Russia will not restrain itself to avoid casualties. In the event of a war with Russia, only one thing awaits Poland and the Poles - nuclear ashes. Poles are not liked in Russia, Russians and Poles have nothing to do with each other. If the Polish authorities want the Russians to exterminate the entire Polish population with nuclear weapons, Russia, in principle, will not mind
Slava Slavom!
Far more industrious and hardened than most European countries. I think they would give Russia more than they can handle.
Thnx Brother long live Croatia !
As a Lithuanian i think we should buy Polish made riffles and other stuff that is up to par along with the stuff we are currently buying from Germany and USA, not because i think the German and US weapons are bad, not at all, those are amazing systems, but we should invest in Poland instead just cuz it is so vital to our own survival. There is no way Lithuania survives if Poland falls, Poland is probably more important to us than even our Baltic brothers, at least freedom wise. Anything Poland has is a win for Lithuania, since at least land wise we only have 2 neighbors we can depend on and that's Latvia and Poland, with the other 2 being absolute shitters Belarus and Russia.
You should better have peace and healthy food, instead of more killing. You really believe RUssia needs more land?You must be brainwashed so much nobody will survive US doesn't want a stron Europe, but hey you will have no food, no warm homes. You will work in the West for wages those in the West will never want to work for. You are 3class Eu members at best.
As a Pole, I believe we should unite once again, this time we should be bigger, stronger, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Seas_Initiative is the only way for peace in Europe!
Well done you. This is exactly the type of thinking and understanding that was missing in Ukraine prior to the war. In Ukraine they treated France and Germany better than Poland, I think since February 24 they got the grasp of it now and started to finally prioritise Poland over Germany and France.
There's another upside to buying from us. If things get ugly, supply lines will be shorter than if you were to buy from Germany or US.
Say, you will need replacement parts for your rifles. Instead of getting them from Germany or worse from across the Atlantic, you'll be able to get them from your neighbour directly.
I've said the same thing when discussing Poland buying M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks from the US. Sure they're great and all but if we got Leopard 2A7s from Germany, we'd be able to get replacement parts much easier than getting them from the US because Germany is just infinitely closer.
@@smiglo112 this whole war is to make bank from selling military goods to Ukraine. I think that's the whole deal Bidens son made. He brokered the deal if his dad if he won president to supplying Ukraine with weapons. Believe me once this war is over win or lose Ukraine is going to owe for the weapons!!! You'd think it would help the US economy but we as the US aren't fighting it so pay is on the back end hence why our economy is broke right now. Yay Biden..... Not!!!
Very informative, professionally laid out *_without_* emotion which is crucial in discussions like this .
From Poland 🇵🇱 : Amazing how accurate is your info and videos from polish gov and army 👌🏻👌🏻
Poland is one of the only nations involved in this war that not only has their head screwed on right, but who is not playing political and economic games.
Refugees? Take them.
The military? Reinforce it.
Russian saber rattling? Don't flinch.
Huge respect for Poland. Proving to the world that they are not to be messed with
Poland has been bullied for centuries by its neighbors. They aren't gonna let it happen again.
Refugees take them🤣unless the to dark
Ty guy comment proves the jokes about polish are true.
@@kenfelix8703 You mean unless they are economic migrants from half a world away
@@kenfelix8703 We take real refugees, women, children, old people, not migrants who want to live on welfare and have a completely incompatible culture they wish to impose on us. But you are free to take them all in. By the way, I do not care if you're black, yellow, green or rainbow colored (we've elected a black MP in a 99,9 white country, my family doctor is black etc.). What I do care about is if the immigrants want to integrate or if I will have to have military stationed around Christmas trees like in Belgium, or have permanent terror threat levels like in most Western Europe, or no-go ghetto zones like in France or Scandinavia.
One correction: Poland is indeed flat as a table, but it has a very extensive river system with several large ones. Essentially, trying to get through Poland you will need to ford a river almost every 50 kilometers. Whether that matters, I recommend asking the Russians about their crossing of river Donets recently.
That is the reason why our MOD is so stubborn about floating IFV which Badger (Borsuk) is. On the other hand it is lacking of armour because of that and they are trying to get more armour on it making it not floating :D
But they are small, and are drying.
@@kazimierzspaczynski7401 75 tzw. short tons, czyli 150 tyś funtów czyli 68 ton metrycznych. Do tego SEPv3 jest jeszcze bardziej odchudzony.
@@Tolbr floating armoured vehicles are a joke , They move slower than a turtle and basically literally a sitting target , If any defenders are present on the other side , These vehicles are 100% doomed no chance at all
Ask Russians how their fllating BMPs ended up in their river crossing attempts
the germans didn't have much of a problem in ww2, what would make this one different?
Poland is such a fascinating country and a wonderful ally to the United States. They are such strong and proud people, im glad that Ukraine has such a helpful neighbor. I guess both countries know the influence of Russian/Soviet aggression.
😂😂😂😂 what aggression is that
@@robercb77045 if you don't think violently invading your neighbors is aggressive, then you have problems.
@kyledabearsfan hahahaa hey but do you know why Russia invaded nazi Ukraine in the first place 🤔. Do you know the many many reason why this war is going on. Do you know since when they been provoking Russia to attack. I do believe that is wrong to invaded any country but Ukraine provoked this with the help of the USA and nato since 2014
Mam 66 lat i jestem Polakiem . Dziękuję że pokazałeś nasze sprawy ale jednej nie pokazałeś My wszyscy Polacy jesteśmy żołnierzami nawet ja w wieku 66 lat . Gdyby cokolwiek się stało natychmiast pójdę na ochotnika do wojska . Nawet gdybym tam zupę gotował dla żołnierzy to i tak pójdę . Polska to niezwykły kraj bo miłuje pokój ale i staje w obronie słabszych narodów . Czy wiecie dlaczego Polacy całują dłonie kobiet na przywitaniu ? Przez nasz kraj przeszło tyle wojen że do dzisiaj całujemy dłonie kobiet za to że swoje dzieci oddały do wojska a wielu już z tych wojen nigdy nie wróciło. To na barkach kobiet spoczywało utrzymanie domu czy wychowanie małych dzieci . My się Ruskich nie boimy ale i nie lekceważymy . Rosjanie doskonale wiedzą z kim maja do czynienia, jak zaczną z nami to przegrają .
Both HAVE A LOT TO LEARN. Read up on DAVOS and Globalism, that would be a good start. Understand that the PIGS you think you will fight for do not give a shit about Poland or Finland. They simply want what Marx wanted a ONE WORLD ORDER where THEY are in control and they can determine the population of the earth and control ALL humanity as their slaves. They have NO interest in traditions, customs, culures, religions, BORDERS or monikers like FINLAND or POLAND. They want to ERASE ALL BORDERS to include that of Finland and Poland and reduce you to slavery on a ONE SIZE FITS ALL WORLD. Grow up morons and understand who your enemy REALLY is. It is the grotesquely wealthy pigs that meet at DAVOS, inhabit "think tanks" like the Council on Forreign Relations, Club of Rome, etc. etc. You are fighting for your OWN destruction. Pull your heads out of your asses. Russia and nations in BRICs and now the Africans are standing up against this evil. Ukraine is simply being USED by them. They could care less about fking Ukraine. They were indeed happy to get the 70,000 missing children in Wester Ukraine for their pedo rings.
Big respect to polish deda! 🇭🇷croata stand with that
Camptown races sign this song DU-DA, DU-DA. Camp Town Races five miles long all the DA - DU -DA day. DU-DA is a globalist war monger. Has NO respect for Poland, its customs, culture, religion. @@user3r74uz3u3
Cheers to the mothers
Most people understand, that:
War is cruelty. You cannot define it. -General Sherman.
A Good man never makes a Good soldier.
The worst man always makes the best soldier.
But not to many understand:
A soldier is nothing but a hired legalized murderer. -Napoleon
The military profession is a damnable profession. -Wellington.
We have wars because we have too many those who live of the wars, Using others to gain money and power.
WAKE up...🐑
As a german, i have to say that I’m glad and proud to stand beside our neighbors this time.
@@Funky_Kowal I definitely did not block supply of weapons to Ukrain. First: It’s not my government at the moment. I have not voted for Olaf Scholz. In my eyes he is a coward who is afraid of Putin. Second: We stand with our NATO Partner Poland. Ukrain is not a NATO Partner or EU Member (but me personally hope that the Ukraine is becomes a EU member in the nearest future) Third: I am definitely PRO weapon delivery for the Ukraine forces. Every destroyed Russian Tank lowers the danger for the western democracies. Fourth: I was in Poland 3 Weeks ago as a part of a convoy bringing help supply’s for urkainian refugees near Warschau to support the polish NGO “Happy Kids” So yes. I’m proud and glad to stand beside our neighbors this time.
@@pakkslac133 I’m ready.
thank u Johnny , i think it is time to forget bad things between our nations , i belive common generention try to forget that bad past between us , and need more people like u !
@@michalkowalski7353 Ja pierdole... Dwa trole boty sobie odpowiadają...
As a Polish i respect. We really need you guys this time;-)
I worked with them in Taji, Iraq . They are never ever backing down when we closed the base they almost had to be forced to leave . They are really efficient and strong as a bull. Also some of their comms guys were honestly tom notch
Thank You brother for Your kind words.
Thank you for your service and same to the polish who helped.
Very informative thanks for making it so easy to understand and really breaking everything down so even someone who's never been in the military can easily grasp some pretty detailed nuances
The 2 finger salute is form a legend. It’s about a soldier that was badly injured but still saluted despite missing his fingers.
You’re only the 300th guy to comment on this. You’re Mr. Obvious.
I was born in a Polish neighborhood in Detroit. Their boy scouts were tough and militant. They taught me survival skills. I also learned boxing from a Polish Olympic champion who was on team USA. I know they greatly resent Russia even more than Germany and think about it constantly. Now im a Us Navy veteran but, I still remember my people and know their resolve is unbreakable.
cheers man :)
Yeah, simply saying - Germans said sorry and are cool right now, Russians are still saying that we are "traitors" (like we are supposed to be loyal to them for some reason?) and should be "punished". I think no sane person in Poland thinks they mean anything else than commiting genocide on us and erasing our culture. This is the Russian way, they were doing this to us since mid-18th century. Nothing else to expect from steppe hordes. The only things they brought to us were death, poverty and misery.
@@TimeTraveller625 i agree. I hope nato stands together. Being a Polish American navy vet who speaks German and has a Ukrainian wife makes this very personal. So i try to illuminate people on here
@Samar3n i don't think the US, Ukraine, or Russia are solely without reason. Knowing history and general aggression in the region, ala Polish Soviet war, ww2, crimean war, etc, id say the war's are about economic domination. The US wants Ukraine as an ally. With it being a former Soviet satellite state, it makes Russia insecure and afraid if its economy prospers and turns to EU. Ultimately that is why Moscow pushed yanukovich to vote no on joining EU against his people's will. Then he passed totalitarian law of no helmets, no protesting etc and murdered hundreds of people. When he was finally kicked out of power Russia started their Donbass attack in 2014, which was really a black operation until recently. It's unfortunate Ukraine suffers now for the greed of politics. Hopefully they will thrive, join EU and prosper in peace
@Samar3n ahh i see your perspective. I think we both know there are no Nazis. When i meet one of your type i always ask if Russia has any justification just match me... I think Biden is a moron but still my president. Can you say Putin is a moron launching an unjustified invasion?
Polish soldiers liberated the Netherlands. They are stil honoured for this effort. Many Polish soldiers have died for the liberation of the Netherlands.
History tells another story.
Poland is your first defense when Russia turns agressive to NATO. And thus to the Netherlands.
ZA WASZA I NASZA WOLNOSC
@Tw Time1 bark bark doggo Can't wait the time Lukashenko save his ass making Belarus democratic country causing Putain final blow
Thank you, greetings from Poland!
@Tw Time1 Brainwashed Russian bot!
Canadian, British, Polish, Anerican, Belgian, Dutch and Czechoslovak troops liberated The Netherlanda in the Second World War..
Yes ,but polish army contributed the most, and pay the bigest price.
It should also be noted that Poland has a legitimate Tier 1 special forces assets, (JW Grom and JW Komandosów,) as well as other Tier 2 assets, JW Formoza, (think Seal Teams and JW AGAT, (think US Army Rangers.) These are relatively small but highly effective units that fought alongside Navy Seals and British SAS in Afghanistan.
This is a Brilliant Video!!! Well Done!!!!
I was one of many trainers in Germany that evaluated Polish troops and was impressed with how quickly they could grasp are western military structure and employ it.
Poland is no push over
Your logic is like this, you spend decades training marshal arts and then you go to challenge a Grizzly Bear.
If Poland wants to poke a Bear its a suicide, but all I can see Poland dose exactly that, good luck to them.
@@Zdravstvujte You're seeing this all wrong, they would be a country that would defend against Russian aggression. Russia has a history of invading its neighbors...Ukraine is the most recent and murdering civilians is what Russia does.
@@Zdravstvujte Russia is the bully... Always was hostile and unpredictable.
Enough is enough.
Anyway.. This bear is poor and almost toothless 👍👌
@@reggveg Until 2014 everything was just fine, but then US sponsored coloured revolution and found some Ukrainen idiots who thought its a good idea for Ukraine to became part of nato block.
Every person with a half a brain knew that Kyev adventure in 2014 with US, UK and nato is gonna end up like this and that Russia never gonna let nato to her backyard. Unfortunately Ukrainen People are gonna pay the highest price because of idiots in Kyev.
When you talk about Russian forces killing civilians you should hear Ukrainen civilians testimonies from Mariupol, what they experienced from Ukrainen army and nazi "azov" batalion.
You know that Kramatorsk trainstation was hit with "Tocka-U" missile, only Ukrainian army uses that weapon.
Theatre in Mariopul was demolished with explosives by Ukrainens to blame Russia of course, survivors of this event started to testifie. You gonna hear a lot about Ukrainen therorisam in next few months and years.
Give yourself few years then you gonna have better "picture" about what happened in Ukraine.
@@Zdravstvujte Firstly it’s the bear doing the poking. And secondly it turns out the bear isn’t a grizzly. More like a koala.
I just finished a rotation in Poland. Their forces were always very kind and wanted to learn. A couple of them were huge u.s. military history buffs too. Knew more than I did lol
yeah.. we like history a lot.. no reason at all
ExxyRT. ; Are you US Army ?
Can't go wrong studying/ reading military history.!!!
here everybody talk about how USA testing their wapons and military army in all across the world, iraq, afg, Syria, etc, quite sad, killing so much civilians for resources and money.
That's awesome, yet sad (for we Americans not knowing our own history) at the same time, lol...
As Habitual Linecrosser says "This speedbump has teeth."
I think its awesome and completely upgrading a military will take time but I think they have made one hell of a start. Great job Poland
Polska!! Polska!!! I love Poland and the beautiful, loyal and warrior like people of the greatest country on the mainland of Europe. Every pole is welcome in England. My best mate was Polish till he died and his family came here to Bury him when I thought he would have been buried in his home town. His family are beautiful inside and out. Polska
Greetings from Poland mate! All the best for u!
Poles and Poland are a major reason why German is not the national language of Britain
@@jsbedi60 yes sir! Greetings from Poland!
@Samar3n
I am very familiar with Poland.
I have Polish friends here and in Warsaw.
My grandfather fought alongside Polish troops at the Battle og Monte Cassino
@Samar3n And I am a journalist, educated and I know the difference between Soviet Union and Poland.
There are 38 million people in Poland plus over 20 million Poles abroad. Especially in the USA and Canada, but also in Western Europe, Australia and South America (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay). In addition, there are people with partially Polish roots, most often very patriotic, when it comes to Poland. Its a big group of ppl, money and influence. Russia should also remember that it never won against Poland alone and most often received a solid beating from Poland, including a very unpleasant one in 1920.
The most unpleasant for Russians was year 1610 when Poles captured Moscow and rulled Russia from Kremlin for two years. Napoleon stayed in Moscow only six weeks and Hitler never made it there.
Plus there's about 2 million of Ukrainian and Bielorusian people inside the Poland, before the war
@@bicycletrips8141 yes but Russia ALONE drove polish back, the strongest country in europe at that time... Also 1920 was now Just Russia againist poland, because poland was heavily financed by french and england, and by peopels too. Poland start winning only after that, before western help they were only losing, and without help would lose warshaw 100%
@@user-db5zc1nf4b Russia will lose if not Ottoman Empire from South-east of Poland
no no. Over 50mln poles abroad ;)
Very well explained! Thank you!
Simple answer… yep! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 ❤🇵🇱
No.
One important thing to remember, Napoleon once said: "800 Poles would equal 8,000 enemy soldiers"
What is the source of your information?
@Samar3n what are you drinking? Napoleon never invaded Poland it was under Prussian, Austrian partition. They were his allies as he created the Duchy of Warsaw
@Samar3n when did Napoleon invade Poland? 😂😂😂 he never invaded poland as he was so impressed with Poland that he once said that he wished he was Polish. He always loved Poland more then he loved France.
Its about spanish mountains, there polish brave won
@Samar3n I didn't know Napoleon was time traveller, that's fascinating! Did he travel to the past or to the future to invade a country that didn't exist in his lifetime?
Theres a sentiment here in the UK, that whilst we joined the second world war and contributed towards the eventual defeat of Fascist Germany for Poland, we failed them in the end. Poland fell regardless under the Iron curtain, we watched as the the people we went to war for fell to tyranny despite our best efforts. We won't fail Poland a second time. If Russia invades, whilst i don't doubt Poland can defend itself after Russia's abysmal performance in Ukraine, Poland won't fight alone this time. Polands borders are the red line, if Russia crosses it, its world war 3. There is no discussion to be had on that front, Poland stands, or the world burns.
Thank you!
Frankly speaking - of al the European countries Britain understands the russian Mordor menace the best and had been helping us the most since the summer last year!
Get real Naja...so Poland undergoes a change in political system, not too different from what it has experienced many times in its history, if lets say, the Russian Federation conquers it. You would equate the destruction of global civilization, the extinction of the human species even, to a change in politics in Poland? By the way, if WWIII happens, not only will civilization and humanity cease to exist, due to the 20 year nuclear winter commencing after all the 1000's of nukes have landed, but every last trace of Poland and the UK itself as well. There is a famous quote attributed to US president John F Kennedy regarding nuclear armageddon, "I would rather my kids be Red than dead.....". That about sums up the calculus of geopolitics in the nuclear age. Although, with all the sabre rattling from US, NATO and Russia in the Ukraine war, it seems they would rather just be dead......I'm talking about the ruling elites , respectively, and their escalatory acts in the Russian/Ukraine war.
One year before Germany invaded Poland and WWII started, western powers just gifted Czechoslovakia, military strong country with population willing to fight, to Germany (google Munchen deal 1939 or Munich betrayal 1939). British people celebrated it as a huge victory! War was averted and the price was only one allied democratic nation with 10 milion people.
Analogy with Crimea "secesion" and Ukraine war is striking. Because Germany wasn´t satisfied with Czechoslovakia either.
@@cloudjumper8868 The assumption that i was unaware of the fate of Czechoslovakia is interesting, however comparing that to Ukraine is a false equivalency.
Czechoslovakia was a militarily strong nation, with heavily fortified borders, supported by the French through their alliances, whose fate was decided by other nations without even consulting them.
Ukraine was invaded without much warning, its military was extremely out dated and performed extremely poorly, who had next to no support from the outside world and whose options outside of escalating to world war 3 were to except the loss of Crimea and settling into a stalemate whilst it strengthened its position militarily and diplomatically. The fruits of which are born now as you see Ukraine not only holding its own against Russia but being supplied with modern weapons from its allies.
Hardly the same situation it is.
@@alals6794 It is easy to sacrifice someone else than to face hard choices i know. That "change" in political system as you would like to call it came with massacres of any who could be perceived as a threat, it came with decades of repression, secret police, threats of imprisonment or exile to Siberia for daring to speak their minds. A veritable prison of the mind and body.
How easy it would be to allow Putin his way, let him claim the old eastern block, let his secret police persecute and murder dissidents, watch entire peoples fall to tyranny whilst we sit pretty on our island home, safe behind our nuclear deterrent. Oh how easy it would be. Thing is, its not in our nature to watch from the side lines as europe falls to tyranny. Multiple times no throughout the last few centuries we've left the comfort and security of our island and gone to war to defend the rights and freedoms of others. We're not going to stop that now, such would be the cowards way out.
I'm aware of what the cost would be if even a 100 nuclear weapons were detonate, i also know what the consequence would be for the UK and my own home as i live not to far was an RAF base. But Putin also realises the cost, so the statement still stands. Poland stands, or the world burns. The only language any tyrant has ever understood is strength, everything else is just appeasement, we learnt that the hard way last time.
Dear Poles, we will stand togeter and sink together if needed. Love from Czech Republic.
History repeats its self, we both know it.
🇵🇱🤝🏻🇨🇿 Czechs and poles will stay together
Great info! thank you for that presentation. Iwill say one thing....For 1000+ years Poles stood between Germany and Russia and endured many wars and battles and political non-existence, and despite all that We preserved our heritage through constant resistance. Polish army carries that heritage....I mean what army could attack German tanks on horses during their Blitzkrieg (horses lost). I never served but I respect all you who have.
Poland has probably fought the most wars with Russia in history. We perfectly know their mentality, their strengths, weaknesses and plans. We warned Europe as early as 2008, during Russia's war with Georgia. The German elite were deaf and some called us Russophobes .... It turns out that we were right
Exactly
@Tomasz Duda: So correct, 100%!!! And "German Elite"....well, that is a Myth!! Why? Very simple: We don´t have anymore "Elites" here in Germany, only woke Lobbyists running in dishonor!! Best Example: Ursula von der Leyen!! First ruining the German Bundeswehr, now fu..s up the whole EU!!! Such People without Morale, incompetend Person have take over Germany for the last 30 Years with Merkel, Schröder and Kohl as "Bundeskanzler". Running for their own Profit( best Example Schröder, Putins best Friend) and doing Business with Dictators like Putin( who Schröder called a very clean Democrat Statesman) they still doing Shit, I am personally despise the German Governments of the last 30 Years until today.
Poland has saved Europe already 3 Times!!! Against the Turks, the Soviets (1920) and the Nazis!!! And I am very, very Confident they would do it again a fourth Time!!!
Germany is becoming a Gay loving Wokeland. Run by Assholes. And if Assholes could fly, Germany would be an Airport. But even that they can´t build correctly anymore, see BBI.
Ye we know their mentality, they behave like wild mongrels
The sooner you start to fight the more lifes can be saved.
Russo-phobes
Since when were we scared of them ?
Well I'm British, don't know about military, but I've worked with a lot of Polish people, Found them to be very good workers ,but the Polish fighter pilots urned Legendary status in Britain, and the Polish Paratroopers were Trained and based in my Home Town in England, in the 2nd World War.
Now this paratroopers is a Grom the best special forces im world. At WWII they have a name Cichociemni.
@@piotrsonnenberg9809. Please edit you comment. "Jest" is an opposite of "the best". And Grom is probably one of the best special force in the world. Even so Ukrainian soldiers aren't worse.
Yes and then Churchill and the British media shit on them and discredited them after the Battle of Britain on orders from Stalin 😡 Learn the true history my friend, you owe us a lot more than you think, because you would have lost the Battle of Britain without our pilots!
Funny thing... Brits urned special status in Poles memory too after WW2 .... But as a traitors 🤫😉... I hope that history is not gonna repeat
Do you know that Winston Churchill is responsible for expeling these polish soldiers after WW2 knowing that in their homecountry upon arrival they'll be automaticaly persecuted and killed under Stalin's order?
Sometimes but not often l'll pull up a story from CNN but 95% of the time l get my news on the war in the Ukraine from two sources, here and Arthur Rehi. Not only because you two are far more entertaining but your background in the Army and his in the Estonian Army make me far more trusting than some talking head on network tv. I know war is awful and people are dying but due to my juvenile attention span l have to be entertained to be interested. I think that since Russia is getting it's ass handed to them by the Ukraine a well equip NATO backed Poland would open up a big can of whoop ass on them if they were stupid enough to invade Good job and thank you for your service
Poland's geographical location may seem unlucky, defence wise, but it's actually a really good one trade wise. Also it's very different now than it used to be centuries ago, where it stretched far East, including what is now Ukraine and Belarus, and up to Black sea in the south. Polish are also the only ones who reached Moscow, and they did it 2 times ;) it's not a nation to be underestimate.
My Polish great-grandfather, Stanislaus, was born on a ship coming to the U.S.. It makes my heart swell to see Poland helping their neighbors AND strengthening itself. Slava from the U.S.! My babcia would be proud! I miss her potato pancakes with honey. It's because of her I eat sauerkraut anytime It's available lol
Mate, you can make your own sauerkraut. It's easy as 🥧
Stanisław 😊
Holy s*t I've never tried potato pancakes with honey. I only ate them with sour cream. Will definitely try it with honey next time. Thx for the tip :) Potato pancakes are the best!
Ahhh man come to my house , my mom make u @pierogi@
man this comment made my cry but with tears full of happiness
Poland exists for over 1000 years dude, there was much more territory wars, losses, takebacks and constant military conflicts than what happend in last 200 years.
More than 1000.
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We saved the EUROPE
Christianity has been in Poland for a thousand years and Poland has existed longer
He propably means that Poland was out of maps for 200 years and kbows Poland is 1000+yars old
Unfortunately Poland disappeared for 123 years and them for 6 years, but this fact is our determiantion and motivation
Bro this was an awesome knowledge bombshell! Thank you!
U da man, Cappy! So many people wouldn't have any problem denying mistakes, the true sign of a strong person is knowing and admitting that fact 🤟✌️
Fun fact: voivodship in Polish is called województwo, which comes form a public function called Wojewoda, which means "leader of warriors/soldiers".
Almost
@@Takigej Exactly that:
"Woje-" - warriors
"-woda" -> "-wódz" - leader
Sam tego nie wiedziałem chociaż mieszkam w Polsce.
@@YoungFlixi też
In Romanian is "voievod".
13:48 As of today Poland has 128 Lepard 2A4 (currently undergoing modernisation to 2PL standard - comparable with A5/A6 standard) as well as 105 Leopard 2A5's, and in addtion to this 232 PT-91 (deep modernisation of T72). Poland also had approx 300 T72M's that were upgraded to T72M1R standard (about 230 of them were upgraded) so new FCS, pasive thermal sights, digital enrcyped radios, military garde GPS. Almost all T72M1R's were donated to Ukarine
13:55 Poland never used BTR's in Military service (less then 20 of BTR's were used by Police) but SKOT/OT-64 created as joint venture between Poland and Czechoslovakia
15:41 The 2 Patriot bateries were already ordred in 2018, now Polish MoD decided to order 6 more
15:47 Also British CAMM and CAMM-ER are already on order
16:39 i would not call 465 (Leo A4/A5 and PT91) MBT's a small number... and this does not include M1A2's that are on order (they will most likely replace the PT91's, as 91's will be put in to the reserve)
16:56 The first batch of ZSSW-30 (so 30mm Bushmaster II, 7,62x51 UKM-2000 and 2x SPIKE ATGM) will be 341 turrets, if all goes ok with them more will follow. The Polish gov understands importance of ATGM for KTO-Rosomak. The problem is that producer of curently used turret requested way to much money to integrate the SPIKE lunchers to already produced turrets. That's why "Old" turrets will be phased out after some time and replaced durring MLU by the ZSSW-30. Also some of currently used 1st gen ROSOMAK will be replaced by Rosmak-XP (AMV-XP) in front line service and the hulls of 1st gens will be used to build Otokar-Brzoza missile tank destroyers (as far as i know Brimstone missile was selected for this project)
17:19 BMP-1 will be replaced shortly by BORSUK IFV and another IFV bought off the shelf. As replacing over 1500 BMP-1 would take a long time + growing army would need more of them Polish MoD confirmed that it is looking to buy additional new IFV (South Korean KF21 Redback is a strong contender)
17:44 "Fake news"... Borsuk IFV uses only hydraulic suspension of K9, the rest of the chassis is of Polish design
17:55 "Fake news"... PM63, P64, PM84, P83, P94 Wist, MAG95, MAG98, Lantan rifle with its proprietary ammo 7 × 41mm... the list goes on
18:12 First tranche was 24 KRAB's, second already ordered and in production is 96, currently MoD is closing contract for third tranche of 48 KRAB's. And there are talks of another fourth tranche for another 120 KRAB's
18:22 Once more not true, the MoD understands very well the need for the precision guided artillery rounds thats why the pumped money in to APR project. And the Domesticly designed and produced precision rounds have been already tested in 2020 - defence24.pl/przemysl/mesko-testuje-precyzyjna-amunicje-155-mm - There are both 155mm prototypes as well as 120mm for "RAK" self propelled autoloading mortar
19:10 Also the Su-22 attack crafts will be replaced by new aircraft, two contenders are taken under consideration Leonardo M-346FA as Poland already is using M-346 as main LIFT (Lead In Fighter Trainer), and KAI F/A-50 (as it has some commonality with F-16's)
Also as of two days ago Polish MoD chief Mariusz Błaszczak anouced that Poland send LOR to US to buy 500 (yes five hundred) M142 HIMARS as addition to already orderd 20. Also Colonel Andrzej Jaśko from Polish MoD say in interview with Defence24 that project WILK is still ongoing and Poland will buy huge number (up to 600-800 Tanks) of new MBT to replace PT91/T72's in addtion to already purchased M1A2 SEP3 (strong contender for this project is Hyundai with K2PL) as well as additional IFV to the Borsuk (already pointed that when talking about replacing BMP-1). Also the project KRUK is ongoing, to buy up to 64 attack helicopters (AH-64G and AH-1Z are taken under consideration in this project).
Kind of an overkill for a NATO member with it's only adversary as incompetent as Russia, isn't it? Also how much of the the military budget would you guess goes into corruption? Here in my country I'd say no less than 20%
Way to go. Great points to the inconsistencies in the movie, the author did not prepare for the material a bit. But still a plus for the fact that he wanted to introduce himself to something about the Polish army.
@@kiq4767Considering how some of the countries reacted to the Invasion and are sabotaging help for Ukraine (cough cough Germany....) I don't think it's a Overkill. Poland does not want to take a risk, while there are untrustworthy countries in NATO. Also bare in mind that almost all NATO member states neglected their armies (in various amounts) for more than 20 years (unfortunately also Poland). A lot of rearming needs to be done, as NATO can't only be marginaly stronger than potential oponents... We need to be much more capable, so much so that any notion of any kind of attack would ment suicide for Russia. 20% is unrealistically high number if You know how public procurement looks like (no f*** way You can hide like 20% from deal for 500 million of USD). More likely the money is wasted for ineffective gov. controlled companies with their ineffective structures ( cough cough Bumar, Stocznia Remontowa etc....)
Ummm, I wonder where Poland will get the $$$$ for all of this!
One has to remember that Polish economy is now in free fall as it is saddled with like 4.5m refugees to which it foolishly pays $$$. I doubt even 1/3 of what you mentioned will be realized.
Ordered, ordered, ordered, ordered, is the same as “ if we can find , borrow, or steal the money from our citizens, we might get “
Go Poland ❤ from Croatia!!!
As a Polish- American (first gen America) i would gladly fight for Poland and so would most of my family. So the mobilization would be quite high
Wow, nice to hear that ❤
Well you'll die to with them!
Same here bud, born in Poland; hold a passport, speak the language, but I'm a hybrid of sorts nowadays. I'm with you on going back , almost did it for Ukraine. I gotta keep all my gear in top shape for the unexpected. jeszcze polska nie zginela
@@skoVBA2 👍👍👍
Love the patriotism. Always be proud of where you are from
I met some Polish Army soldiers when I was in Karbala. They were hard men and knew what they were doing. 11/10 would oper8 with again.
That's .... somewhat meaningful place, there was even a movie on the subject. Thank you!
The defence of Karbala's city hall is a big proof of polish stubbornness and strength (ofc not to mention Bulgarian warriors) - 15 polish and 8 bulgarian soldiers fought for straight 3 days and nights with limited supplies against much muuuch larger group of rebelliants (the city itself has 1 milion population) that wanted to take city hall.
admiration and respect to the Poles from a Filipino
A very interesting and important movie. Over time, opinions about Poland are changing for the better, it wasn't always like that. We, Poles, probably need a little of that - to be appreciated in any way for what our ancestors did and for what a lot of good Polish citizens are doing today. This film and positive comments are for me - and I believe that for all Poles - something very important. It is a testimony that our history, spilled blood, slavery, etc. - have not been in vain. I would like to believe that thanks to this we will remain the nation we have always been - desiring freedom, good and honor. Greetings from Poland to all good citizens of the world!
Dobro i Pokój Bracie!
Love Poland from Hungary 🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺
Love Hungary from Poland 🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱
Sad is that Hungary loves Russia more these days 🇭🇺❤🇷🇺
@@Greeego131only their goverment... Simple Hungarian always be stand with Poles. Like every single Pole will stand with our Maygar brothers !
@@Greeego131 Traitor Orbán does.
@@DuckPL38 Polak Wengier 2 bratanki
Polak Magyar 2 brothers
The Polish airman was a great asset in the Battle of Britain and their effort will never be forgotten.
Never push a pole with his back to the wall as he will come at you with ten times the force.
A proud nation of people who will fight for freedom.
Polish , czech and slovak pilots fought for England and did it!
You're right, but thanks for the words. Greetings from Poland Brother!
Thank you for taking about the fact, witch is often hidden. Shame you sold Poland to Stalin.? Memorial in Northolt opened my eyes on the scale of auer help. Then Uk send as a bill of £3m for having polisch figters on it's ground. Bravo.
Repeat please
@@fredrikstarec1222slovaks first invided Poland with Germans as allies.
Watching this a year later and sooo much has changed
I don't have anything to add, I would just like to thank you for the outstanding job that you do.
Poland 🇵🇱, I was born in mariupol but live in United States 🇺🇸 now for over 30 years.
Thank you for hospitality and love ❤.
Perhaps one day Ukraine 🇺🇦 will have an opportunity to repay you in your time of need.
(What putin doesn't understand is that respect is earned....
Being equal and good with your neighbors is what long term success looks like.)
We help, because we know, what Russia is capable of. Hope the war ends as soon as possible, and Ukraine takes back all of their land.
Stop praising bandera, apologize for Wołyń pay for military help take back your male dezerters from Poland and we will call it even.
@@bredathc ladnie masz najebane w bani xd
@@bredathc przestań pierdolić i też będziemy kwita
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WELL WE know in Britain 🇬🇧. How hard they fight and are brave from the Polish Pilots who fought in the Raf ,and the Polish Paratroopers were based near my home town .and as a kid I used drink in the Polish club in my town and stories from old guys who settled here .Also worked with modern Polish generation good workers ,make very good friends .
I'm so thankful you are saying that, mate.
Wish u all the best, best regards from Poland🖐🏻
Thank you. We do appreciate your words.
@@FxChris27 na thank you mate from Scotland
@@doomguy7724 Thank u man! All the best for u!
Glad to hear that. Greetings from PL :)
Old vet from Idaho, USA. Very informative report. Thanks.
Much respect to polish people and leaders - even though you seem to have friends, when something happens there's no one better to trust than yourself. Lets hope these hypothetical wars never happen, but I'm honored to have such a neighbor as a lithuanian
I'm really impressed how many details you packed in this 20minute video. For me as a Polish and engineer working partially for Polish defense is nice to hear that our importance is noticed as well as polish made equipment. The only thing I'm missing here was Polish MANPADS Grot-M (Piorun) which is best in the class, far more capable than Stinger or anything that enemy could use.
First russian jet in Kharkiv been hit with it. Can't say which one is better but for sure it's capable weapon.
It's amazing how highly thought of American junk from the 50-60's
@@richardcostello360 to be fair the platforms have been upgraded over time. If it works it works! Doesn't mean there isn't better out there.
It is indeed, in fact the US ordered a ton of them recently and iirc Cappy mentions it in one of the more recent videos (might be due to your comment). The official number hadn't been disclosed last time I checked, might be they're just routing all the new production to Ukraine idk
@@richardcostello360 it's due to numerous modernisations and the fact that it's being successfully used to this day pretty much every year (Afghanistan and such), but there's a reason US has ordered a bunch of pioruns
"Having Poland on your side gives you a massive advantage." Vienna 12 September 1683: "Yes. It does."
When the winged hussars arrived
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Having Ukraine on your side gives you a massive advantage, too
/Moscow: 24 February 2022/
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Bursting out laughing =) Poland is a huge disadvantage when on your side. A burden. A weakness. A disaster.
I think you described it well, Chris
Due to the economic relationship between Germany and Russia, virtually the entire road and railway infrastructure was built and renovated in the east-west direction. Due to the importance of German ports, the north-south direction has been neglected until today.
Poland has a long tradition of fighting in all kind of wars with multiple enemies - directly on a battlefield or indirectly through underground resistance. Poland in a way is like Afghanistan minus mountains - you can conquer it but sooner or later, you will have to leave it because of Polish resistance and resilience. And yes, you want to have Poland on your side - it is a loyal ally , just ask Americans who served and fought together with Poles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Without Russians defeating Polish resistance in the 18th century, US would have never been able to get independence and defeat British.
Freedom loving Polish fought to kill & snub freedom loving people of Afghanistan and to destroy cities of Iraq ?!! fail to understand.
@@bg315 what do you mean? American colonies were fighting British not russians so I don't see any correlation there. I would add another fact, without Poles that fought in the American Revolutionary War, heroes such as General Koscuszko and Colonel Pulaski, it would be harder for Americans to win a few battles.
@@ragnargrabson1287 That is exactly who I was talking about. Take a look at why Kosciuszco and Pulaski ended up in colonies and how did they gain that military experience. If not for Polish defeat they would have stayed in Poland. :)
BQ is smoking the good stuff.
I have no idea about Poland's capabilities today. But I want to call out a piece of history that is so often overlooked. Everyone knows it was the USA that won WW2. All the movies say so. Except it was a world war, and the US was late to the party. Everyone also knows that Poland was the first to fall. Except that after Poland was invaded, many of its people went to better equipped allied countries, including the UK, where they immediately signed up with the military. One of the most famous air battles in history was the battle of Britain, where British pilots repelled a superior German force. And while I don't want to take anything away from the Brits, the truth is we didn't have enough pilots. A very significant number of the pilots in those British planes were Polish. I have great respect for the people of Poland, and I think history has proven that they are tough people.
Sadly on this time Britains was taking money for used equipment by Polish soldiers...
So they fight for them and need to pay for IT....
@@ShuterPolska well the Poles weren't fighting for Britain as such. They were fighting for freedom across Europe, and Britain just happened to have equipment. I'm not sure what deal was in place between Britain and Poland but it's not unusual for a country that goes to the aid of another to later charge for that. That's exactly what happened when the US eventually got their arses off the sofa.
Dywizjon 303
The squadron claimed the largest number of aircraft shot down of the 66 Allied fighter squadrons engaged in the Battle of Britain, even though it joined the fray two months after the battle had begun. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._303_Squadron_RAF
Hey it wasnt the usa who won the war, it was the ussr
I never had the pleasure of working with Polish Forces. I had a brief experience while in the Nevada National Guard, working at EMC Europe that caused me to consider the Fulda Gap. Some inquiry around Kaiserslautern, generated good repute of Polish forces. Ground up training and modernization as economics permitted became commonalities in reputation.
I'm Polish, and we tend to be super critical to anyone saying anything even slightly wrong/incorrect about our internal matters.. We get vicious right away.. However your videos seem to be doing justice to our affairs. It may not seem like much, but this is like a huge complement from a Polish person.
Also, I could recommend looking into the Polish Territorial Army in more detail.
These units keep exceeding military expectations, with former SF units' commanders (GROM, AGAT, FORMOZA) expressing great trust and admiration for the training level these TA units receive.
One such outspoken commander is Roman Polko; he had a lot to say about the TA training, equipment, which sometimes is way more modern than regular army..
Major update, Poland purchased 1,000 K-2 MBT, 672 K-9 SPA and 48 FA-50 fighter jets from South Korea in 27th July 2022. The main reasons they chose SK weapons are 1) no NATO countries could handle this amount of orders in a short period of time to fulfill Poland's urgent needs (the first shipment was already delivered in december 5th) 2) The US and EU countries are very hesistant in providing technology transfer, personnel training, liscensed production for security reasons, but as a new player in the market SK is much more open in that regard 3) Low price and good quality weapons with NATO standard compatibility
Dokładne tak. Mieszkam w Polsce i mogę powiedzieć że to daje poczucie bezpieczeństwa.
@@YoungFlixi Glad to hear. I think the future research and production partnership between Poland and SK will create a great variety of quality military equipment for non-NATO but west-affiliated countries.
When I realized WW3 could be, I was in fear, but after I heard that, I feel safer.
South Korea is at the end of a peninsula with a belligerent failed state (propped up by China) between them and China. South Korea can’t afford to be complacent. They have to maintain a powerful military industrial complex.
you forgot about the abrams we ordered
I've lived in Ireland and meet a plenty of polish there. Wonderful people, very friendly and respectful, and also patriotic.
About saluting in Poland: that what you told is wrong. It's common knowledge in Polish army that during uprising in 19th century (I don't remember which one) some soldier go to hq during battle to make report. He lost 3 fingers of his right hand so when he came to hq he salute with whot left of his hand make report and died. This salut is to honour his memory. Sorry for pour English. It's not my primary language and last time when I used it was almost 10 years ago.
I am watching this one year laer, and it is still so correct about Polanf, army, territorial defense and so on. Nice job man.
I honestly really like these in depth analysis videos about lesser talked about countries. Keep it up, Cappy 👌
I really like covering these different militaries the best I can glad some people enjoy these !
I dont
@@bgee515 yet here you are using your valuable time to watch it and comment on it....🤔
Pointless blabber not analysis
@@bambinaforever1402 yea... let's hear your expert opinion plz?
For anyone who thinks that Poland is "weak on paper" we can assure you that we Polish people are extremally motivated to protect our land.
stop please
@@chrz_czon stop what
prawda
@@wizzardboy3604 this is out of context mostly , in fact pl people uniting only if they must/are forced to really. For everyday they are not nice for themselves what is because of soviet occupation years ago called 'PRL'. I mean, lack of trust to eah other also. And in therms of military forces we are not strong either by the way so. ( for example. on paper we have some f 16 but most of them are ubcapable to work in practice )
@@chrz_czon debil. You don’t know what you talking about
Wow I'm polish and you gave me a history lesson
You did not mentioned about recent delivery o K2 Korean tanks. We are planning of buying almost 1k of them. Polish Army signed large contract for delivery o HIMARS and Chunmoo as well. It is hard to buy amunition, or a nice AR15 or Klasshnikov in gun schops, that how popular shooting is in Poland now :)
I'm glad they are on our side. Much love from USA 🇺🇸/🇵🇱
You Americans live only by the fake fear imagine the suffering you have impose on other Nations.
I am from Poland and don't worry about nuklear onec they do it is all over no fear no worries.
The worst is the media terror and stupid people are more harmful and
degerous really again fighting for years why, for what, for who?!!!
Americans will fight with Russia to the last Polish man watch out people. We had onec freedom from Germany by Americans pictures and vidios made in Auschwitz the leave under USSR.
But this war was finnance from New York and Prescot Bush grandfather Gorge Bush yeah what an epic family happy Americans.
Both sides are dangerous not to play with sneaky and well maintain by Banking Cartel prabobly in Swizerland FED i their IMF and BIS.
And the Jew cried German invade them by suprise and Polish need to flee to Israel what a rat scam.
Who is helping to twist everything
what happend ? The Vatican Holy Roman Empire and Swisse guard gold went where answer please?
American free Auschwitz yeah! made some videos pictures and leave all under USSR for 6 decades.
Again Jew cry how bad it was ,so who was the target on the land it all started who?! Who fought for England and pay them to be on English soil wich nation? Churchil cover up why Soviet murder 20 thousend Polish officers in Smolensk yea the same Smolensk where polish elite plane crush it is nothing to do with Donald Tusk recive order Charles Charlemagne two weeks befor NO!This type gurus take down a whole human race into cashless sociaty.
Banking Cartel goal shift into digital slavery heavly sponsored like covid19 fraud pharmaceutical cartel.
Those people sell thier children life into generational slavery without exit comminism in the worst form ever existed human life distructions.
And yet keeping up fuel WEF , FED, IMF ,BIS agenda Russia and China on board with this United Nation players from New York.
It is repetition past his-story with new industrial revolution again digital slavery AI running the whole world. Stupid dumb asses just to
follow mainstream crypto currencies agenda it is meainstream no alternative. It is trap always pleyd by the currencies creator shift into their more desire digital SLAVERY.
This stupidity involves names like Michael Sailor fake rat Billioneir , Max Kisser ex Wall Street scame and Brian Rose, Tikka Tewar, Mark Moss very delusional scamers.
The Poles will fight on their own soil like tigers. Russia will get a similiar reception from Poland that they got from Ukraine...but even less pretty.
Thank you Chris! Nothing average about your practical analysis.
Except Russia has already taken over thirty percent of Ukraine in 90 days.
True!
I could see that
Russia is not just fighting Ukraine they are fighting the entire world Ukraine has gotten so much help and they are still loosing ground daily. Russia is like a giant grinder and they are slowly but surely devastating everything in their path.
@@carlruffier3092 the Russians are being ground down as well.
From the looks of things against NATO troops well trained on advanced equipment, and heavily armed from the beginning, Russia would shatter unless they rely on nuclear weapons to softwn targets and create holes in the defenses.
Numbers will only get you so far when facing a foe with superior arms and training.
Norway has just announced an historic increase to military spending, basically doubling the budget. It would be awesome if you made a video about that :)
On topic: Poland is doing the right thing, it seems like Poland and France are the only two European countries that _really_ understand the gravity of the situation.
15:05 This wizard just shaved in a blinck of an eye.
"Poland will have it's borders, even if it means they're on the last map humanity ever draws."
Poland has spent centuries bleeding and dying to protect their way of life and to preserve their religion, language, culture, and history even under foreign occupation. Time and time again people have invaded and tried to stamp out Polish identity; the Russian government (especially the Soviets) frequently outlawed teaching Polish history. Yet Poland survived underground, teaching in secret and keeping their history and integrity alive. They know what it is to bleed for freedom, and they're willing to do so. Anyone invading them will be walking through a minefield, because Poland's motto might as well be, "We won't go quietly."
Poland did invade Russia 10 times. Even took Moscow once and tried to plot with Germany to invade Dussia back in the 1930s
@@julianshepherd2038 No they didn't. First of all, you may want to look a bit more closely at your history; because first of all it wasn't Russia, secondly when they took Moscow it was because they attacked first.
Secondly why Polish people hate Russia, they wouldn't ever allow Germans to be on their soil. The Soviet propaganda was just that; propaganda. Under no circumstances would Poland help Germany invade Russia; not out of any love for Russia , mind you.
@@julianshepherd2038 could you please specify what event you're talking about or leave a link to something about it? I've never heard of Poland plotting with Germany, especially this late in the interwar period. This would be particularly weird after considering that the Polish politics (lead by First Marshall Piłsudski) were trying to coordinate with France a preamptive attack against Germany (i don't remember when, I think it was around Hitler's raise to power)...
@@julianshepherd2038 Erm... It was rather "Germans/ Nazis wanted Poland to help them beat Soviets" - but then Poles weren't exactly eager to embrace such cooperation - so Nazis invaded Poland instead.
This reluctance might have had something to do with deeply rooted perception of Germans in general Polish psyche (and experience), and with well know German honesty and willingness to stick to their declarations and promises, as we all can witness now in their decisive and unfaltering support for Ukraine, from the day one.
Actually, there's even this Polish idiomatic expression, "oszwabić" (verb), which can be translated as "to cheat thoroughly, the German way" - i.e. to screw someone up to the last penny while preserving all pretences of legality.
"Szwab" (n., sing. pl.: Szwaby), derived from Schwabe (sing., pl. Schwaben), native(s) of Schwaben, historical land in Germany, is Polish colloquial term for "a German", akin to English "Krauter" or "Jerry".
@@julianshepherd2038 Actually when Himmler asked Poland to help them invade Russia, Poland thought he was insane and appealed to England and France to attack Germany preemptively. Well, we know how that turned out.
I did test polish rifle Grot, it's really good piece! it's MUCH more accurate in medium range (600-800m) than competition, could be lighter imo but it's not bad, it's more stable this way. GOOD stuff 👍
As a Brit I can say with my hand in my heart that Polish forces are top notch. You only have to look back at WW2 to how Polish airman took the fight back to Hitler Germany working out of Britain. They are today one of the key players within the NATO defence alliance on the eastern front. I am more than happy to know they are batting on my side of the field.
I spent two years in Poland on multiple rotational deployments and worked alongside both the Land Forces and Territorial Defense Forces. Both are well trained and always wanting to train and get better. Great people! I did find the force structure interesting compared to American and British. Certain assets are at a lot higher echelon than they should be like SUAS and various intelligence disciplines. It appeared that they were working on pushing those to lower levels.
Don't forget to mention that the European Security Academy is in Poland!! One of the best private security training facilities outside the US. Clearly its not gonna be as good as Blackwater's training, but I highly recommend it to anybody looking to get basic firearms training, advanced firearms training, CQB, combat first aid, and a dozen other courses.
Poland takes security seriously.
@@DesertStateNevada Yes ! I was lucky enough to train at ESA, they're really solid (Little Mogadishiu ^^). And during our training we met some people of the Territorial Defense Forces... Great guys !
At the other side, Lithuania just only last year off 2021, just started to make some security by short Belarusian border from illegal immigrants 😂😂 and that security is ankward since you know Eu gave money all the time for that protection 😂😂🤷🏻♂️ border patrols have automatic weapons, but NO AMMO !! 😂😂
Yep, and bullets and bombs will still kill them. Go to war Poland. And take all these armchair warriors to fight with you. Well, like an earlier comment, they will cheer you on and tell you to fight bravely until you start dying. Then they will be no where to be found. Good luck fools. Negotiate. Actually if your male die so we can have your women. Well take good care of them, if you know what I mean.lol
I trained some of their soldiers and pilots in the noughties..they are a wonderful people, loyal, fiercely independent and anxious to retain their independence from Russia. Russia would open up another hornets nest if they attack poland.......
Poland has one hell of a proud military tradition. These are people who fought the Nazis for years, even when their nation was overwhelmed. Nations like Poland and Ukraine can be invaded, but they can never be conquered.
As a Brit, I have no problem trusting Polish pilots and that the country would do well with a larger airforce.
I don't know anything about Polands modern force but I really wish that my fellow townsmen would remember it was a polish ship that saved our town during WW2 by drawing away German bombers from the town that were looking to destroy the shipyards (where the hood was located which was the ship that eventually disabled the bizmark allowing the raf to destroy it), singer sewing factory (where army uniforms where made) and various other factories making spitfire engines and ammunition. All I hear is racist garbage from them yet at the shipyard we have a giant statue of that vessel that saves us from the worst of it. They probably don't even realise that the ship is Polish let alone know the story behind it. Too many have short memories.
You should bring your townsmen to Gdynia. The ship, ORP Błyskawica, is still there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_B%C5%82yskawica
The Bismark was not destroyed by the RAF. It was scuttled. Nothing but love.
"I am a Pole"
ORP Blyskawica !!!
Like the others, I guess you come from Cowes. ;)