Wojciech Kość
Since Poland unveiled its goal to train every adult male for war, being a Polish passport-holder has taken on a different character.
Hollywood A-lister status is no exception.
“There’s really nothing to be afraid of!” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk teased U.S. actor Jesse Eisenberg in a social media video. The 41-year-old Eisenberg was awarded Polish citizenship earlier this month for his role in a "A Real Pain," an Oscar-nominated drama about estranged Jewish cousins reuniting for a Holocaust tour through the country.
Days after Eisenberg became a citizen, Tusk revealed plans for a dramatic military expansion.
“We’ll give you such a training that the new James Bond role? It’s yours!” Tusk said. The Polish PM underlined that the training is voluntary.
Poland spent almost two centuries as a colony of Moscow and retains a deep-seated wariness of the country. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has kicked that worry into overdrive.
Warsaw is now NATO’s biggest defense spender at 4.7 percent of GDP, has the EU's largest army, and is spending billions of euros on jets, rockets, tanks, artillery and more.
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