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Talk:Donald Trump achievements: Foreign policy (view source)
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, 15:20, May 21, 2018Poland
Here's an article from the Financial Times:
Here's an article from the Financial Times:
https://www.ft.com/content/c1721646-4d51-11e8-8a8e-22951a2d8493 --[[User:James Kardys|James Kardys]] ([[User talk:James Kardys|talk]]) 17:49, 5 May 2018 (EDT)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1721646-4d51-11e8-8a8e-22951a2d8493 --[[User:James Kardys|James Kardys]] ([[User talk:James Kardys|talk]]) 17:49, 5 May 2018 (EDT)
== Are we about to lose Poland? ==
I'm becoming increasingly worried that President Trump will go down in history as "the President who lost Poland."
Over the past five months, the goodwill that was brought about by Trump's speech in Warsaw has slowly been evaporating. Problems began in January when the Polish Parliament decided to pass a law that would criminalize public statements claiming that Poland was responsible for Holocaust-related crimes committed on Polish soil.[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/poland-grants-initial-approval-controversial-death-camp-bill-180967975/] This elicited a '''very''' harsh response from Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Poland of Holocaust denial, while both Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and opposition MP Yair Lapid outright stated that Poland as a country bore responsibility for the Holocaust. [http://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-slams-bill-to-outlaw-blaming-poles-for-crimes-of-wwii][https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/israeli-polish-presidents-to-take-part-in-march-of-the-living-1.5993292][https://twitter.com/yairlapid/status/957208421794709504]
Since then, Poland and Israel have been engaging in an increasingly bitter diplomatic dispute. This diplomatic dispute has led to a dramatic increase in anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiments and rhetoric among Poles, including among state-owned media and politicians.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-rhetoric-spills-into-polish-politics-amid-tussle-over-law/][https://www.apnews.com/32a38ea92b4247859ad2fad83eb99715][https://www.jta.org/2018/03/20/news-opinion/father-of-polish-prime-minister-says-jews-gladly-moved-to-ghettos-to-get-away-from-non-jews] Things only got worse when Poland -- who prior to this incident was a staunch ally of Israel in the anti-Israel European Union -- refused to either participate in the effort to block the EU's motion to condemn President Trump's embassy move to Jerusalem or send an envoy to the opening ceremony of the embassy. [http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/05/12/orbans-hungary-blocks-macron-led-eu-motion-condemning-trumps-jerusalem-decision/][http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/13/four-european-ambassadors-break-e-u-will-attend-u-s-embassy-opening-jerusalem/]
Meanwhile, the United States has made it clear that it supports Israel over Poland in this dispute. It has condemned Poland's law as infringing on freedom of speech and academic inquiry [http://thehill.com/policy/international/372595-tillerson-condemns-polish-president-signing-bill-on-holocaust-speech], and President Trump has signed a bill requiring the State Department to monitor and encourage countries affected by the Holocaust to either return land stolen from Jews by the Nazis to their rightful owners '''or''' provide substitute compensation -- including but not limited to property never owned by Holocaust survivors or victims -- to Holocaust survivors or their heirs as fair play and substantial justice may require. [https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/447/text] This bill is deemed highly controversial, and some claim that it violates international law. Furthermore, I have met multiple Poles online (on Twitter and on Breitbart's comment sections) that have stated that they now consider the US and Israel to be enemies of Poland in response to this crisis. Some have gone as far as advocating severing diplomatic ties or even going to war with the US and Israel over what they see as a malicious attack on Polish sovereignty. Either way, they used to admire President Trump. Now, they despise him.
Although we haven't reached that point yet, I'm becoming increasingly worried that President Trump will go down in history as "the President who lost Poland." Poland has already demonstrated on at least one occasion that it is willing to side with the globalist EU over the United States, if President Trump does not side with Poland over Israel in this diplomatic dispute. Poland has already demonstrated on at least one occasion that despite the migrant crisis, it would consider the globalist EU to be the lesser of two evils if the United States engages in behavior that Poland deems to be infringing on Polish sovereignty. I fear that unless we fix this diplomatic crisis, we can forget the possibility of an alliance with Poland against globalism and Islamism. -- --[[User:James Kardys|James Kardys]] ([[User talk:James Kardys|talk]]) 11:20, 21 May 2018 (EDT)