$50 billion a year: The European country building an army at a crazy pace

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski revealed in an interview that Poland spends about $50 billion a year on defense, and that it has more tanks than Germany, France, and the UK combined. In the interview with 'Europae Pravda', he also addressed the conditions for Ukraine's accession to the European Union, including sensitive agricultural and historical issues, and assessed that Putin understands he cannot turn Russia back into a superpower.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski revealed in an interview with 'Europae Pravda' that Poland spends about $50 billion a year on defense, and that it has more tanks than Germany, France, and the UK combined. In the interview, he addressed several key issues in Polish-Ukrainian relations: First, he issued warnings to Ukraine on its path to EU accession, raising the issue of agriculture—the gap between small farms destroyed in the Holodomor and today's large agricultural corporations in Ukraine, a different ownership pattern than what is common in the Union. Second, he referred to the deep historical disputes surrounding the World War II Volhynia massacre and the glorification of controversial Ukrainian historical figures. Sikorski called for reconciliation in the style of German-French reconciliation after World War II, and concluded on a pragmatic note that painful decisions await Ukraine on its path to the Union. Regarding Russia, he said that Putin imagined he would reverse the collapse of the Soviet Union and turn Russia into a superpower, but the economic and military balance of power in Europe leaves Moscow no real chance.