R. Sikorski: Russia’s attack on any NATO country would inevitably end in its defeat – Respublika.lt

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Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski. EPA-Elta photo.

This was stated by Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski on Thursday, presenting information on the country’s foreign policy directions in 2024 to the Seimas.

“We, the West, should not be afraid of a confrontation with Putin, but the opposite. It is worth reminding, but not to make the Russians feel more threatened, because NATO is a defense pact, but to show that a Russian attack on any member of the Alliance would result in its inevitable defeat,” he said.

R. Sikorski noted that “the military and economic potential of Russia pales in comparison to the potential of the West.”

According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “if we do not lack the will, Russia will lose.”

“Putin’s only hope is our lack of resolve,” he warned.

According to R. Sikorski, “Russia had slightly more than 1 million 300 thousand soldiers after the first wave of mobilization.” “NATO’s military personnel – without additional mobilization – exceeds three and a half million people and is almost three times larger,” he added.

“NATO’s aviation resources are three times larger than Russia’s aviation resources. The alliance has four times as many surface ships and three times as many submarines,” the head of Polish diplomacy emphasized.

He informed that the nominal gross domestic product of NATO and EU countries exceeds 45 trillion dollars. “The combined GDP of Russia and Belarus is only 2.2 trillion dollars and is 20 times smaller,” the minister noted.

He also reminded that “in 2022, the fifteen NATO countries most actively supporting Ukraine spent more than 1.17 trillion dollars on defense purposes, while Russia spent only 86.4 billion dollars, or 14 times less.”