I would take a photo of it, but that could get me arrested.
"People are strange when your a stranger."
I said once before the army were in town due to the close proximity here to the Ukraine border, I disagree with where they have set up camp though.
It is a main road and only 50 minutes from the border, or 600 liters of fuel and 2 days in a stupid tank.
They have (the army) set up a makeshift tent with throw over army netting, green with shades of black and filled it with 18 to 20 year old children in green uniforms.
It is apparently according to local speculation - a radio/signal jammer for if the Russians advance into here. (Poland.)
Now where they have set it up is what concerns me, and I am unwilling to say where it is due to obvious reasons, nor am I going to take a photo of it, for the same reasons.
But they have set it up right next to two petrol stations and 2 shopping centers, if it was targeted the civilian casualty count would be high and most of them would just be people shopping for fuel, for food/clothes and cutlery.
As I understand it this is a tactic that was used a lot in Syria and is being used in the Ukraine, using us plain ordinary folk as shields so that any strike means there can be an international outcry of "they are targeting citizens" you know the drill all the same.
All they had to do was set up that tent 500 meters in either direction on the same road to avoid civilians, there are fields too, trees, natural cover, but no, they had to put it in the middle of a town with 30,000 people.
What will be will be anyway, I take a risk every time I cock a leg over a motorbike and ride it, but I still do it every day so I am not afraid, but others may not be as such; and they do not deserve to be blown to bits whilst shopping.
I would make light of the situation, make a joke but humour/humor is not apt at such a time, so excuse me if I seem a little seri-arse.
Him, yes him above.
The granddaddy of modern medicine, by gawd he looked like the living dead whilst alive, did he not!
I digress I was just amusing self.
There is nothing in this town to capture, nothing of any note, so why here?
The only manufacturer here makes glass, the sort you drink out of and that is your lot.
Most of the staff there is now Ukrainian, they get a subsidy from the government you see for hiring them, rob Peter via tax to pay Paul, just the way it goes.
but when you are actively encouraging companies to get rid of locals to replace them with cheaper labour/labor, you are actively encouraging losing your own tax revenue, are you not? I am no economic expert, but it seems self defeating to me, to say the least but what do I know hey.
I can see a mass exodus of young Polish people coming here, not because of the direct effects of war, more the indirect effects of this new labor force replacement.
But again, what do I know, just a dude that farms and rides/restores motorbikes.
I have seen it all now, the government here is trying to sell via TV adverts, government treasury bonds/debt.
For real, just like Turkey it will be hand in your gold next.
Anyway, got stuff to do, and in this insane world do it I will.
They just (they being government) have just announced they spent "covid safety funds" to buy properties from what they call the Polish order, to protect us all from? You could not make this up if you tried.
Lovely day and with the world going insane, I am off to ride a stupidly fast motorbike, why not hey. Have a superb day all the same.