{"id":87990,"date":"2026-11-01T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87990"},"modified":"2026-11-01T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:28:34","slug":"german-army-helps-poland-protect-itself-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/german-army-helps-poland-protect-itself-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"German Army Helps Poland Protect Itself Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> DW.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/poland\/t-19070837\">Poland<\/a> started to construct a <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/poland-presents-plan-to-fortify-border-to-russia-belarus\/a-69192871\">defensive barrier<\/a> along its border with Russia and <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/belarus\/t-38384925\">Belarus<\/a> in 2024. The <a class=\"external-link\" title=\"External link \u2014 East Shield defense system\" href=\"https:\/\/tarczawschod.wp.mil.pl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener follow\">East Shield defense system<\/a> will eventually be around 800 kilometers long, and is intended to protect this\u00a0country on NATO&#8217;s eastern flank against attack from the east.<\/p>\n<p>When the Polish prime minister, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/donald-tusk\/t-38238452\">Donald Tusk<\/a>, inspected the first completed section in November 2024, he declared that the project was meant to &#8220;deter and discourage a potential aggressor&#8221; and was &#8220;truly an investment in peace.&#8221; The <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/russias-war-in-ukraine\/t-60931789\">Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a> in February 2022 was a profound shock to Poland&#8217;s sense of security. The Tusk government has increased defense spending in 2026 to 200 billion zlotys (around 46 billion euros, or 54 billion dollars) \u2015\u00a0almost 5% of Poland&#8217;s GDP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DW.com: Poland started to construct a defensive barrier along its border with Russia and Belarus in 2024. The East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87993,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87990\/revisions\/87993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}