At some point in the coming weeks contractors will start laying down a €2.3 billion line of fortifications, arms depots and reconnaissance posts along Poland’s eastern frontiers.
The border with Belarus is already bristling with steel fence posts erected to deter “weaponised” migration. A few hundred miles away to the northeast, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are building bunkers and tank traps of their own.
For President Duda of Poland, this thousand-mile wall of metal and concrete is nothing less than a second Iron Curtain that the West’s borderlands have been forced to devise as protection against the insatiable imperialist designs of Russia.
“Some politicians in the West look at this with horror,” Duda, 52, told The Sunday Times in an interview at his presidential palace.
“The last thing they want to see is the Iron Curtain being rebuilt. I will say this: if the security of my compatriots is to be safeguarded by the Iron Curtain being put up again, then OK, there will be an Iron Curtain as long as we are on the free side of it.”
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