March 13, 2025 (EIRNS)—Andrzej Duda, the Russophobic President of Poland, is advocating that the U.S. place nuclear weapons on Polish territory. Duda claimed in an interview with Financial Times that it was “obvious” that President Donald Trump could redeploy U.S. nuclear warheads stored in Western Europe or the U.S. to Poland, a proposal the Polish leader said he had recently discussed with Keith Kellogg, U.S. 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 told 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.”
According to FT, Duda is hoping to revive a nuclear sharing project that he presented unsuccessfully to President Joe Biden’s administration in 2022. Duda said it was up to Trump to decide where to deploy U.S. nuclear weapons, but recalled President Vladimir Putin’s announcement in 2023 that Russia would move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
FT understates the obvious, that “stocking such weapons again close to Russia’s borders—this time under U.S. control—would be viewed as a serious threat by the Kremlin.”
