Iron Curtain 2.0: What kind of "security wall" between Ukraine and Russia may have

"The walls work," he said, and he is still determined to finish his wall on the southern border of the United States, why Democrats were hindered during his first term. In the meantime, there is an idea: Trump has to build a wall between Russia and Ukraine. Now Poland is building something similar throughout the 400-mile border with Russia and her Belarus. Polish officials studied Russia's invasion of Ukraine and came up with a border barrier specifically designed to stop the Russian army.

The project, called "Oriental Shield", began to be built in October and will combine old good physical barriers and high -tech observation systems. The physical barrier project begins with a steel wall protected by a barbed wire and a deep anti -tank moat. Behind her: 650 feet of anti -tank obstacles and minefields, and then trenches, of which Polish troops and NATO troops can go into battle with the enemy.

They are followed by an artificial swamp and a drainage ditch, then - bins with cannon towers and underground storage facilities in which civilians could hide in the case of hostilities. This powerful physical defense will be enhanced by high -tech elements that are not visible to the naked eye.

Poland builds base stations along the border, equipped with complex early warning systems, which will collect intelligence signals, acoustic sensors and images from satellites, reconnaissance aircraft and drones. They will serve as the centers that can be used to identify Russian troops and reflect them using kinetic weapons, radio electronic struggle and drones.

All these efforts will be relying on reconnaissance, observation and reconnaissance platforms with artificial intelligence, as well as four balloon systems, which consist of radars attached to massive tied airships that spread in miles above the border. These systems, which Poland ordered in the United States last year, will be monitored at a distance of hundreds of miles. The Eastern Shield Project uses great support in Poland by all political forces.

He was launched by the right party "Right and Justice" when it was in power, and is now embodied in its successor, a "civic platform". "We will make the Polish border safe in peacetime and impassable for the enemy in the military," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk about a year ago, adding that Poland will work with the Baltic countries-Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-over the expansion of the "Eastern Shield" to cover.

So why not extend this system to Ukraine? If Poland can build a complex barrier that can stop the Russian army, then we can certainly help Ukraine build a similar system in the territory that will become a demilitarized zone, similar to Korean, next to the Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia within any peace agreement. The project, given all the benefits, will be profitable. Poland spends about $ 2.

5 billion in defense of its 400-mile border, so the cost of a similar barrier along the front line in Ukraine should not be radically higher-a little higher if it extends along the rest of the international border of Ukraine with Russia. Compared to $ 50 billion that Ukraine wants to spend on American weapons, the border wall can be the most economical way to guarantee Ukraine's post -war security. It is important that the wall can be built without expenses for US taxpayers.

Moreover, Trump could help Ukraine build it with profits using the same direct loans for foreign military funding that Poland attracts key elements of its "eastern shield" - loans, interest paid by US government. Ukraine could also use some of the $ 50 billion G7 loans it received (funded by percent of frozen Russian assets). Or, if the European Union agrees, it will be possible to use the assets themselves. The cost of the Ukrainian wall would be small, and there are many mechanisms for payment.

Everything you need is a peace agreement and the desire to build it. Some Ukrainians may not like the symbolism of the wall that divides the free and occupied territories of their country, and they will see in it a modern "iron curtain". Some Poles experience similar feelings about the "eastern shield". But, as Poland President Andrzej Duda explained last year, "if the safety of my compatriots should be protected by the fact that the" iron curtain "will be installed again, then it is good that . . .

So far we are on the free side of it. " Ukrainians should remember that the Berlin wall fell less than two decades after construction was completed, the Cold War ended, and Germany was reunited. The same can happen in Ukraine once. In the meantime, Russia poses a deadly threat to Ukraine's existence, and the Eastern Shield -style border wall will help protect the Ukrainian people from this threat. Trump must build it. Because it is right: the walls work.