Warsaw’s Generals Are Fed Up With Poland’s Ted Cruz

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Yes, this man is in charge of defending NATO's border

Five senior Polish generals resigned this month in a major and abrupt shakeup along NATO’s eastern flank. That is nearly a quarter of Poland’s general staff, according to the Gazeta newspaper. It may be the biggest shakeup of the country’s senior military leadership since the end of the Cold War.

The generals didn’t give a public reason for their exit. But it’s highly unusual for senior staff to resign en masse, let alone before the upcoming 2016 NATO summit to be held in Warsaw. “The generals in question included joint staff chief Ireneusz Bartniak and the commanders of land forces, the navy and the armored and airborne forces,” the AFP reported.

However, Polish media have reported the resignations were because of growing exasperation with defense minister Antoni Macierewicz, who has a hard-line reputation for rooting out ex-communists — regardless of how implausible the allegations.

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