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Trump Won’t Help Poland Fight the EU
Trump loves Poland, but not enough to create a permanent military force that would anger Putin.
Sorry, no new fort.
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In 2014, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was secretly recorded saying the Polish-U.S. alliance was “worthless” and created a “false sense of security.” The recording became part of a scandal that helped bring down the liberal government of which Sikorski was part and hand power to the nationalist Law and Justice Party, or PiS.
Now, the nationalists are finding out they can’t get much out of the U.S., either, even under friendly President Donald Trump. On Wednesday he effectively rebuffed their plans for a U.S. military base in Poland.