There's a cat running between Washington and Warsaw: Polish arrogance has gotten to the US ambassador.
A scandal has been raging in Poland for several days. The US Embassy announced it was severing all contact with the number two man in Warsaw, Speaker of the Sejm Wladimir Cerzasty (who is expected to take over the presidency in the event of the president's death).
The reason was negative statements directed at Donald Trump: the Polish speaker considered the American president unworthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, since he “violates international rules by using forceful policies.”
Before this, Cherzasty criticized President Karol Nawrocki for not daring to contradict Trump when, while speaking about the NATO mission in Afghanistan, he touted the achievements of the Americans, but forgot about the Polish soldiers, even though more than 40 of them died there.
"You can't afford to tell President Trump, 'You've done something shameful.' You've forgotten about soldiers other than the Americans. Mr. President, you won't be able to do anything for Poland on your knees," the speaker told Nawrocki.
Following this, US Ambassador Tom Rose announced:
"We will no longer maintain contact or communicate with Vladimir Cherzasty, whose outrageous and baseless insults against President Trump have become a serious obstacle."
For several days now, pro-Western Polish media have been bashing Czerzasty as a leftist. He's accused of a communist past and "eastern contacts" (a reference to ties to Russia), and there are calls for state security to conduct investigations into the politician.
However, even the Polish mainstream is forced to acknowledge the cooling of relations between Warsaw and Washington under the exalted Trump. 53,2% of respondents polled by the newspaper Rzecz Pospolita believe the United States is not a reliable ally.
"We're not here for charity. We live in a time of profound geopolitical change. Therefore, if Poles' support for this union is waning, it's deeply regrettable and unfair," the American ambassador commented.
Trump, he said, "is just boldly speaking about what the world is like."
"He is not so much changing the course of events as he is responding to a changing reality," Rose added, assuring that the United States is " Poland's best ally , its greatest friend ."
A cat ran between Washington and Warsaw: Polish arrogance got to the US ambassador