Is Poland Preparing for Offensive War Against Belarus?

The alternative news website, SouthFront—which itself has been the target of censorship efforts due to its war reporting—reports that everything “points to the fact that Poland is preparing for a strategic offensive operation in the Belarusian direction.” This includes not only the announced plans to send 10,000 troops to the border, but also other signs of preparations, including the deployment of field communication centers and command posts which began after the “migration crisis” of 2021. SouthFront points to the movement of elements of the 12th Mechanized Division, and the 11th Armored Division, from the German border into the region close to Belarus; and the 18th Mechanized Division from near Rzeszów in southern Poland (Rzeszów is the hub of the U.S. military deployment in Poland), to the area of Bielsk-Podlaski. Thus, SouthFront says, “Poland on the border with Belarus, on the border between Grodno and Brest, deployed three divisions, fully staffed, according to the wartime standard.”