{"id":1183629,"date":"2025-07-14T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1183629"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:35:37","slug":"polish-fm-russia-chose-to-be-the-west-s-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/polish-fm-russia-chose-to-be-the-west-s-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish FM: Russia Chose to Be the West&#8217;s Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski stated that it was Moscow itself that chose to become an enemy of the West, as he commented on current relations with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the remarks in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmf24.pl\/tylko-w-rmf24\/poranna-rozmowa\/news-sikorski-ostro-o-braunie-wykonuje-robote-ktora-jest-zla-dla-,nId,7998098\"><em>RMF24<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sikorski emphasized that Poland never wanted to consider Russia an adversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better to live in peace with your neighbors. But when one neighbor attacks another neighbor close to us, there are consequences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed that \u201cif Russia engages in espionage, sends arsonists here, and threatens us\u2014including with nuclear weapons\u2014then Russia has clearly decided it is an enemy of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt also promotes fascist, imperial rhetoric at home\u2014this is how it conditions its society for aggression. That\u2019s why we have reasons to fear Russia,\u201d Sikorski added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, he welcomed recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that the U.S. President is beginning to say what European leaders have been telling him for half a year, but the real test will be whether the United States adopts a new sanctions package [against Russia],\u201d the Polish FM noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sikorski recently suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s regime could collapse if an arms race similar to that of the Cold War era is reignited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said that Russia\u2019s proximity is the strongest argument for Poland to maintain high levels of defense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/france-and-britain-will-increase-expeditionary-troops-in-the-coalition-of-the-willing-to-50-thousand-people-macron\/\">France and Britain will increase expeditionary troops in the \u201cCoalition of the Willing\u201d to 50 thousand people, \u2013 Macron<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski stated that it was Moscow itself that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1116597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,51,36415,36422,53,55,50],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1183629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-europe-en","category-11473-news-en","category-11473-news-en-3","category-russia-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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