Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has called on the United States to deploy nuclear weapons to his country.

He said he wants nuclear weapons in Poland as a ‘deterrent’ believing that it would make Poland stronger and safer as it faces Russia.

His request follows a statement from French President Emmanuel Macron last week saying he was ready to extend France’s nuclear umbrella over all of Europe.

InfoWars reports: Duda’s fresh request of Washington came in an interview with the Financial Times, and some key lines were in the following:

Andrzej Duda said it was “obvious” that President Donald Trump could redeploy US nuclear warheads stored in western Europe or the US to Poland, a proposal the Polish president said he recently discussed with Keith Kellogg, US special envoy for Ukraine.

“The borders of Nato moved east in 1999, so 26 years later there should also be a shift of the Nato infrastructure east. For me this is obvious,” Duda said in an interview with the Financial Times. “I think it’s not only that the time has come, but that it would be safer if those weapons were already here.”

European leaders talking about “a shift of NATO infrastructure east” is precisely a key motive for Russia’s invasion in the first place – and such provocative rhetoric could only serve to escalate the full-blown proxy war.

President Duda as part of his rationale cited Russian tactical nukes currently stationed in Belarus, which sits to the immediate east of Poland.

“Russia did not even hesitate when they were relocating their nuclear weapons into Belarus,” Duda said. “They didn’t ask anyone’s permission.” So Duda is urging Washington to just do it, and similarly to not ‘ask permission’ or bother with consensus. 

Interestingly, on the question of Poland developing its own nuclear arsenal, he said this:

Duda, who is also supreme commander of Poland’s armed forces, echoed Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in saying that the country could alternatively get better protection from President Emmanuel Macron’s idea to extend France’s “nuclear umbrella” to cover European allies. 

But Duda poured cold water on Tusk’s suggestion last week that Poland could develop its own nuclear arsenal. “In order to have our own nuclear capability, I think it would take decades,” the president said.