{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6825a844b1b74cbbae73d5a8/6995b90e7012ce53763a2f93?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why Poland is becoming Europe's new superpower","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6825a844b1b74cbbae73d5a8/1771419972265-1b9a3689-9a1e-49ed-8d20-e4449a4b8dd8.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Beginning with the annexation of Crimea in 2014, but accelerated by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Poland has super-charged its military to become the third largest in Nato, behind only Turkey and the US.</p><p><br></p><p>It spends more on defence as a proportion of national wealth than even America and is soon to have more large tanks than the UK, Germany and France combined.</p><p><br></p><p>So how did this happen, what are the implications, and are there lessons to be learned for the UK?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Host:Tom Newton Dunn</p><p>Guests: Oliver Moody and Bartosz Kielak</p><p>Producer: Shabnam Grewal</p><p>Executive producer: Fiona Leach</p><p>Photo: Getty Images</p>","author_name":"The Times"}