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Poland has been growing in military might, rearming and recruiting thousands more soldiers in a drive to become the most powerful land army in Europe.<\/p>\n
Russian designs on Eastern Europe face a serious hurdle in the growing size of Poland’s armed forces.<\/p>\n
Moscow has seen the decline of the country’s military standing during the war in Ukraine posing a question of whether Russia would be able to defeat Poland in a conventional war, according to the YouTube channel The Military Show.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin will no doubt be aware that failure to contain Warsaw will likely see Poland unseat Russia as the strongest regional player in the coming decades.<\/p>\n
Poland has a history of conflict with Russia stretching back centuries leading to Warsaw reacting quickly to the invasion of Ukraine by investing in the country’s military.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Hungary’s Orb\u00e1n compares EU to Soviet Union, and with good reason – Comment<\/strong><\/p>\n Warsaw handed over large stockpiles of Soviet-era weaponry and tanks to Ukraine after the invasion.<\/p>\n This move not only helped replace Ukrainian battlefield losses but also provided Poland with an opportunity to spend a lot of money equipping its armed forces with NATO standard hardware.<\/p>\n This could prove Polish forces with an advantage in a hypothetical future conflict as Russia will be unfamiliar with the type and tactics of the equipment being deployed.<\/p>\n Poland has acquired the Patriot air defence missile system from the US, which would pose a second problem for Russian forces.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Despite not having as capable an air force as Poland, Ukraine has managed to deny the Russian air force total supremacy of the skies.<\/p>\n What is more western sanctions mean Russia will likely struggle to obtain the high-tech components needed to replace and rebuild modern fighter planes in the event of substantial losses.<\/p>\n On land, Poland has plans to increase the number of active military personnel to 300,000 by 2030.<\/p>\n Despite this in any future Polish-Russian conflict, Polish forces would be heavily outnumbered.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Poland-has-is-looking-to-expand-the-number-of-active-military-personnel-5047928.jpg?r=1699022647042\")
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