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Russian munitions are landing on Polish soil and the alliance answer is statements. Europe's heaviest rearmament now rests on an untested guarantee and a fracturing home front.
A missile crater a hundred kilometers inside Poland drew statements instead of consultation, reviving the pattern Poland joined NATO in 1999 to bury: Western guarantees that arrive as declarations, as they did in 1939.
The Law and Justice split ends the two-pole system that organized Polish politics for twenty years, and it disarms the governing camp that mobilized against it as much as the right itself.
Rearmament on Poland's scale buys hardware but not the two things this window exposed as scarce: allied resolve and domestic consensus.
A suspected Russian missile left a ten meter crater a hundred kilometers inside Poland without interception, and NATO's answer stopped at statements and scrambled jets. The same week, Law and Justice split into two caucuses, ending the party structure that organized Polish politics for two decades. A record quarter of Poles now favor leaving the EU.
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