Posted on 07/17/2018 1:38:37 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki:
"I look at the latest developments, including Helsinki, where it might have been that one president of our neighboring country (Putin) was pressuring the U.S. president for concessions. But I have not seen any concessions, neither as regards the annexation of Crimea nor the war in Ukraine," Morawiecki said.
"None of the voices that were appearing beforehand as hypothetically possible - concessions by the United States - have materialized. So I don't see where he (Trump) has made any significant concessions.
Poland is the biggest former communist country in both the European Union and NATO, and has called for the alliance to boost its defenses, especially after Russia seized Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in 2014.
"NATO's eastern flank needs to be strengthened because Russia's aggressive policy has not, unfortunately, ended," Morawiecki said. "This aggression hasn't diminished in any way. President Trump must have come to the same conclusions."
Poland has repeatedly requested a permanent U.S. military presence on its soil and has offered up to $2 billion in funding for such a base. U.S. soldiers are now present on its soil through NATO's back-to-back rotation.
Last March, Poland signed its largest arms deal ever, agreeing with the United States to buy Raytheon Co's Patriot missile defense system for $4.75 billion. Its plan to boost air defenses is aimed at deterring Russia, which has long opposed the formerly-communist countries' integration with NATO.
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Thanks for an excellent history lesson.
We have troops there. Share a base and the Poles want to allow us a permanent base. My bro lived there a bit and said I would love it.
His painting are a joke.
Not to mention Paderewski.
This is what American schools and universities teach about WWII? If not, what is the origin of the bias that you are serving us here?
Anti-semitism is a historic fact, It doesn’t matter what source is relied upon.
You should go. Its fabulous. Easy, cheap, wonderful sights and people and food....was there for three weeks last year.
An axiom! So the source doesn’t matter indeed. Perhaps a modern secular religion in making.
The source matters very much and reliable sources have reported Poland’s past problem with Anti-semetism. It isn’t a subject capable of generating a good argument.
Plenty of Anti-Semitism here in the US at that time. But helping Jews here didn't get you and your family killed, like it did in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
Why were there so many Jews in Poland before the war?
Ever hear of Kazimierz the Great?
I suppose you’re one of those who likes to call them “Polish Death Camps”, like Obama did.
You do know which country produced the most “Righteous Gentiles” at Yad Vashem, right?
That does not obviate what I said. Polish people had more opportunity to be righteous since most of the death camps were in Poland and there was a huge number of Jews there probably the most in Europe.
But I never said ALL Polish people were anti-semities.
Also, not one single Pole served as a guard in the Death Camps, not one. There were plenty of Ukrainian guards.
Yes, some Poles were anti-semitic, and it was confounded by the sheer number of Jews in Poland at the time.
But I would dare say, they were no worse than the French nor the Dutch. By the way, the Netherlands had the highest volunteer rate for the Waffen-SS of any other country. And who betrayed Anne Frank and her family, most likely a Dutch person.
Our anti-semitism was more of the snide kind not the dangerous kind. Jews could have fled to Poland to escape the oppression in Russia, Lithuania and the Ukraine and that might explain the large number.
Our anti-semitism was more of the snide kind not the dangerous kind. Jews could have fled to Poland to escape the oppression in Russia, Lithuania and the Ukraine and that might explain the large number.
Tell that to the folks on the SS St. Louis.
The French still are, Poland not so much.
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