{"id":17445,"date":"2024-03-30T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/polish-leader-warns-of-prewar-era-urges-european-nations-to-invest-in-defense\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:46:47","slug":"polish-leader-warns-of-prewar-era-urges-european-nations-to-invest-in-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/polish-leader-warns-of-prewar-era-urges-european-nations-to-invest-in-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish leader warns of \u2018prewar era,\u2019 urges European nations to invest in defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged European nations to step up investment in their defense, saying the continent isn\u2019t ready for the current \u2018prewar era.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Tusk made the remarks during a recent interview with various European newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I don\u2019t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past,\u2019 he said before referring to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. \u2018It\u2019s real and it started over two years ago.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Russia has intensified airstrikes against its neighbor. Recently, Russian missiles briefly breached Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine. That prompted Warsaw to put its forces on heightened readiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has escalated its attacks in recent days, launching several missile barrages on the capital, Kyiv, and hitting energy infrastructure across the country in apparent retaliation for recent Ukrainian aerial attacks on the Russian border region of Belgorod.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Italian news agency AGI reported that Italian fighter jets at a Polish military base in Malbork intercepted two Russian spy aircraft in the Baltic Sea. The Russian aircraft were not authorized to be in NATO airspace, the report said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one was harmed, and the Russian planes did not have \u2018hostile intentions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tusk called for urgent assistance for Ukraine to defend itself and urged more cooperation between Poland, Germany and France.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the second world war,\u2019 he said. \u2018I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. The prewar era.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tusk also called out Russian President Vladimir Putin for attempting to link the terrorist attack on Moscow\u2019s Crocus City Hall to Ukraine without evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Evidently feels the need to justify increasingly violent attacks on civil targets in Ukraine,\u2019 Tusk said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged European nations to step up investment in their defense, saying the continent isn\u2019t ready for the current \u2018prewar era.\u2019\u00a0 Tusk made the remarks during a recent interview with various European newspapers. \u2018I don\u2019t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept from the past,\u2019 he said <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}