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A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.

Poland, a former Warsaw Pact member which has been a full member of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance since 1999, has been concerned about the possible spillover of war on to its territory ever since Russian invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I saw some polish soldiers in afghanistan, all those mofos are like 7 feet tall brick shithouses. Gl wagner

[–] InverseParallax 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] TimeNaan 17 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'm sure 100 guys will launch a full scale "special military operation" on a NATO country.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand the move. Blunder?

[–] Num10ck 6 points 11 months ago

may be a small scale project like smuggling

[–] maggoats 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Distraction. Why? We don't know.

[–] Clbull 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't think Wagner are stupid enough to start shit on Polish soil. Wouldn't that be forcing Joe Biden's hand to drag NATO into the conflict?

[–] Telodzrum 8 points 11 months ago

It’d be fast and decisive. Remember what happened the last time Wagner fucked with a NATO force — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khasham

[–] Techmaster 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think they would need NATO's help.

[–] Yellow_Cheese237 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What will happen if Wagner is trying to destabilise things near the Poland-Belarus border or do activities that normally would been seen as an act of war?

Would NATO see this as an attack from Russia and/or Belarus or would they say it's a private army/terrorist group that is not connected to a country and let Poland handle it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Stationed Polish soldiers would probably just wipe them in under 2 hours then move on.

[–] TheBlue22 3 points 11 months ago

Don't think polish would need a declaration of article 5 before anihilating the orcs. They desired ruzzian blood for decades