Polish FM Sikorski Calls Security Pact With U.S. 'Worthless' In Secret Recording -- IBTimes
A Polish newspaper Sunday released an excerpt of a secretly recorded conversation between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and former Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski in which Sikorski said Poland's security relationship with the United States was "worth nothing" and gave Warsaw a "false sense of security."
The news weekly Wprost said the conversation was recorded earlier this year at the Amber Room, an elegant Warsaw restaurant. The paper plans to publish the full transcript Monday.
"You know that Polish-American alliance is worth nothing. It is even harmful, because Poland creates a false sense of security," Sikorski is quoted as saying. Rostowski asks why and Sikorski is heard responding: "Complete (expletive). We'll get in conflict with the Germans, Russians and we'll think that everything is super, because we gave the Americans a blow job. Losers. Complete losers."
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My Comment: The Polish foreign minister is only voicing what many others have been saying for the past few years .... eastern Europe is no longer a priority in Washington. As to what is my own opinion .... the U.S. attempt to reset it's relationship with Russia coupled with President Obama's decision to cancel an anti-missile defense system deployment to Poland (in his first term) was a heads up for everyone in the region that the alliance that has been in place since the fall of the Berlin Wall was changing. The crisis in Ukraine and the mediocre U.S. response to it has only validated this perception.
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Well, first off, let's take a guess who "secretly" recorded the conversation, then ask why now. Unless there is a Polish domestic political angle here I'm missing, then there was nothing secret about this. It's the Polish Government's attempt to change current American European policy. Also along with how other government have addressed the US publicly (Russia etc) it's in particularly insulting language which in itself is no accident.
There is definitely an internal Polish political angle to this story .... but this use of insulting language from eastern Europe to describe US foreign policy is new .... I never heard anything like this when Ronald Reagan was President to the first year of President Obama's term.
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