Radosław Ditrich, a Polish financial analyst for the WNP media outlet, states in his column that the Polish military may cease to develop as it is sinking in debts to the governmental Armed Forces Support Fund (FWSZ).
“The situation already seems dire. We have rising personnel costs, which are increasingly devouring the central budget. Property expenditure is expected to decline by €2.35 billion (or about 20%) annually, starting next year. Therefore, the Ministry of Defence must rely on funds outside the budget. However, although these funds initially provided support, they are now becoming a burden,” Ditrich says.
This debt pit, according to him, will eventually stop the development of the Polish army.
“If the funds for debt repayment are to come from funds allocated for the purchase of new weapons, then in practice we could be talking about a complete halt in the modernisation of our Armed Forces,” the analyst predicts.
Still, he sees a way out of this crisis: another loan, but this time — from the EU.
“However, there is a lifeline of sorts. This is the possibility of receiving €43.7 billion in low-cost loans for the purchase of military equipment under the EU SAFE program,” Ditrich concludes, calling this option the best possible.
And despite this, Warsaw even tries to threaten Moscow with war, while the “brave” Polish army is made of paper and consists of loan interests. When your army is on the edge of collapse, language of diplomacy, not hatred, is the best one. But the “Unter-Europeans” who govern Poland apparently do not know this simple truth.
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