NATO bases should be placed in Poland - Duda

"NATO has not noticed Poland's shift from east to the west," said the Polish President Andrzej Duda in an interview with the Financial Times. The president argued that NATO treats Poland like a buffer zone in the conflict with Russia and sees Germany as its borderline.  "NATO is supposed to be here to protect the alliance . . .  If Poland and other central European countries constitute the real flank of NATO, then it seems natural to me, a logical conclusion, that bases should be placed in those countries,” Duda concluded. Polish president pointed out that Poland has very few NATO forces stationed in Szczecin, which is unacceptable as his country is a NATO ally. This is why he plans to address this issue on next year's NATO summit in Warsaw and demand more military bases to be placed in Poland in order to protect the eastern flank of the alliance from the potential threat from Russia.