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Europe’s tallest Virgin Mary statue unveiled in rural Poland

Europe’s tallest Virgin Mary statue unveiled in rural Poland

A statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be Europe’s tallest has been formally unveiled in a small Polish village.

The 55.6-metre (182ft) concrete figure is roughly two double-decker buses longer than Rio de Janeiro’s smaller – if more prominently placed – Christ the Redeemer monument, though it still pales in comparison to a 98m Virgin Mary erected in the Philippines.

The ecclesiastical sculpture in rural Konotopie was consecrated by a local bishop in a ceremony on Saturday, a day chosen to coincide with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Not sure any other Euro state would have allowed this out of fear they might anger their Muslim settlers.

Poland has kept the Muslims out for the most part.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Christianity, Poland

Poland rushes to spend billions on military to deter Russia from a direct confrontation with NATO

Poland rushes to spend billions on military to deter Russia from a direct confrontation with NATO

Poland, with an imminent high-priced military ramp-up, is betting that the cost of peace is cheaper than the price of war with Russia.

In a watershed defence spend, coming from a European Union loan, Warsaw is pouring nearly 44 billion euros ($71 billion) into stepping up its military infrastructure. Why now? That’s obvious for anyone following Moscow’s unyielding provocations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, Poland, Russia

Russia planning attack on Poland to test Nato resolve, US warns

Russia planning attack on Poland to test Nato resolve, US warns

Russia is planning an armed “provocation” on Polish soil to test Nato’s resolve, the United States has warned.

Polish critical infrastructure could be targeted by missiles and drones or Russian soldiers could cross the border into Nato territory.

Washington has issued several warnings to Warsaw about the plot, sources close to Karol Nawrocki, the Polish president, told Onet, the Polish news outlet, which, along with The Telegraph, is owned by Axel Springer and is part of its Global Reporters Network.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, Poland, Russia, USA

Russia is already waging war against us, Polish general says

Russia is already waging war against us, Polish general says

Russia is already waging war on Poland, and Nato must respond more forcefully to its next attack, a senior Polish general has said.

Poland shot down Russian drones deep inside its airspace last autumn, while Moscow-linked hackers have attacked government infrastructure and ministries of thousands of times — including a cyber-assault that sought to cripple the power grid in midwinter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, Poland, Russia

Polish Authorities Find Migrant-Smuggling Tunnel From Belarus

The Polish border guard has discovered a tunnel beneath the Poland-Belarus frontier, with officials confirming that more than 180 migrants entered Poland on Thursday, December 11th, through the underground passage. The tunnel, located near the village of Narewka in the northeastern region, is the fourth such structure detected along the border in 2025. Authorities report that over 130 people have been detained so far, while searches for the remaining migrants continue.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Poland

Canadians support sending troops to Poland if Russia invades: poll

Two thirds of Canadians support sending our troops to countries such as Poland if Russia invades, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.

“You’d like to think that this is really kind of a super hypothetical pie-in-the-sky kind of question. But unfortunately, crazy things are happening all around the world,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president for Central Canada, said Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Poland

Poland rail bombing signals Russian escalation against Nato

Thanks to the norms of inter-state combat which have governed much of history, we’ve long been conditioned to think of war and peace in binary terms. But what’s happening on Nato’s east shows us that it is in fact a spectrum, with Poland caught right in the grey zone at its midpoint.

This weekend, for the first time since the Second World War, a deliberate explosion damaged a railway line connecting Warsaw to Lublin in what Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an “unprecedented act of sabotage”. Although Polish authorities have not yet named a specific culprit, they’re already stating the obvious — that “all traces lead to Russia.” That’s hardly surprising, given that the damaged rail line serves as a key pathway for shipping aid to Ukraine, and Russia has sent recruits to gather intelligence on Polish rail hubs near military bases and to disrupt train services using radio networks in the recent past.

Assuming it was Russia.

Poland: Ukrainians Working for Moscow Responsible for Railway Explosion

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNATO, Poland, Russia

Rail explosion in Poland was ‘sabotage,’ prime minister says

A rail line in Poland was blown up Sunday in “an unprecedented act of sabotage,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday, vowing to “catch the perpetrators.”

The affected line links Warsaw, the capital, to the eastern Polish city of Lublin and continues onward to Ukraine, and it has been used to deliver aid to Ukraine. Without specifically accusing Russia, Tusk connected the apparent attack to the war in Ukraine.

“Blowing up the rail track on the Warsaw-Lublin route is an unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians,” Tusk wrote Monday on X. “This route is also crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine. We will catch the perpetrators, whoever they are.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPoland

Poland Says ‘Hostile Objects’ Downed in Its Airspace During Russian Attack on Ukraine

Poland said Wednesday it had scrambled aircraft alongside allies to shoot down “hostile objects” violating its airspace during a Russian attack on neighboring Ukraine, a first for a NATO country during the war.

“Aircraft have used weapons against hostile objects,” Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on social media, adding: “We are in constant contact with NATO command.”

The incursion came as Russia unleashed a barrage of strikes across Ukraine, including in the western city of Lviv, around 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Polish border.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inPoland

How, and at what cost, could Canada catch up to Poland’s defence spending?

There was a particularly striking moment last week in Warsaw as Prime Minister Mark Carney renewed his friendship with Poland’s Donald Tusk, a flash that subtly captured the stark choices Canada will likely face in the not-too-distant future.

Carney was genuine in his praise of the eastern European country’s wholehearted, enthusiastic embrace of NATO and the Western alliance’s defence spending targets.

“We learn much from the prime minister, from his government, including the importance of pulling our full weight in NATO,” Carney said.

How to catch up? We can ask Poland to annex us!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Poland

In Warsaw, Carney deepens Canada’s defence, trade ties with Poland

WARSAW – Prime Minister Mark Carney is striking a new strategic partnership with Poland that will see Canada deepen its ties in trade, defence and energy with the fast-growing European economy.

Carney is in Warsaw today where he is meeting with his Polish counterpart, Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

The pair say they’ve agreed to work more closely in areas such as defence, aviation, cybersecurity and clean energy.

Expecting a border incident?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Poland

The Polish Tommy Robinson leading anti-migrant vigilantes

From Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast to Zgorzelec in Silesia, the yellow-vested activists turned out in their hundreds at a dozen border crossings between Poland and Germany.

They peered into car windows for evidence of illicit migrants, conducted periodic “citizen’s arrests” and on at least one occasion flew a drone over German border guards.

With Germany now routinely turning back asylum seekers at the border, the message from the vigilante patrols was frank and uncompromising: if the Polish state would not protect its side of the border, then the Polish people would do it themselves.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Poland

Anti-immigrant rallies staged across Poland

Anti‑immigration protests have taken place in dozens of towns and cities across Poland.

Most demonstrations attracted several hundred people or fewer on Saturday – but police estimated that about 3,000 took part in the largest rally in the southern city of Katowice.

The protests were organised by far-right political group Konfederacja, and another nationalist organisation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Poland

When You Vote “Wrong”: EU Allies Push To Overturn Polish Election

Poland’s recent presidential election is now at risk of being overturned after the conservative candidate, Karol Nawrocki, won a surprise victory against the liberal favorite. Backed by the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, Nawrocki defeated the liberal Mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, a close ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Brussels-aligned coalition.

But instead of acceptance, Nawrocki’s win has triggered a wave of resistance. Unlike in other EU countries—where electoral irregularities are tolerated if the “correct” candidates win—Poland now faces the prospect of having the vote annulled altogether. The Supreme Court has announced that it will issue a verdict on the election’s validity on July 1 after receiving more than 50,000 complaints.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Poland