Poland plans a YUGE lovefest for Trump
Poland ♥ Trump (relatively speaking, anyway):
“It’s going to be huge””absolutely huge,” Mr. Tarczynski said of the coming welcome for Mr. Trump. “They just love him, the people in Poland””they just really love him.”
Poland is working to put on a hero’s welcome for Mr. Trump as he prepares to give a major speech to thousands of Poles in a Warsaw square. Behind that effort is a recognition across the continent that Mr. Trump has the potential to change the balance of power in Europe.
President Barack Obama formed a close bond with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and backed her liberal worldview, her acceptance of immigrants, and her support for a deeply integrated European Union. Now it is nationalist governments such as Poland’s that hope Mr. Trump will see them as ideological kindred spirits and back their push to loosen the European Union and rebalance it away from Berlin.
Absolutely fascinating.
It’s been clear for well over a decade that, in the post-Soviet world, to speak of “Europe believes this” or “Europe feels that” is to ignore the enormous divide between Western and Eastern Europe. The West has been protected from the Soviets and other predators by the US, and in reaction it has been free to become increasingly leftist and anti-American. The East has had a very different experience. They felt the heavy Soviet hand up close and personal, and have not yet forgotten what it’s like.
Plus, there are historic difference that long predate the Soviet era. Poland in particular has a history both sorrowful and proud, in which it has been overrun by regime after regime and prides its current freedom highly. And why would they trust Berlin? No reason to do so.
Of course, approval is relative. Most Poles do not have confidence that Trump will do the right thing re foreign affairs, but more do than in Western European countries:
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted this spring, 23% of Poles are confident that Mr. Trump will do the right thing in world affairs, compared with 11% across the border in Germany.
While low compared with his U.S. numbers (which hover between 35% and 40%), Mr. Trump’s ratings in Poland are among the highest in Europe. While Britons and Italians rank Mr. Trump at about the same level, only 7% of Spaniards, 10% of Swedes, and 14% of French have confidence in the U.S. president, according to the survey. Among members of the European Union included in the poll, Hungary gave Mr. Trump his best rating, with 29% expressing confidence–still far lower than the 53% of Russians who see Mr. Trump positively.
It’s not surprising that Russians see Trump positively. They’ve been reading in the MSM that he’s allied with them.
It will be interesting to see if Trump’s speech in Warsaw increases his positive numbers there, if he plays his cards right and gives a good and “presidential” speech. If most people in Poland have seen Trump portrayed in the world and US press as a stupid clown, then if he is able to string two coherent words together (and there is almost no doubt he will do a lot better than that) he has nowhere to go but up.
As I have mentioned before Poland’s King Jan Sobieski
commanded the Christian forces at the Battle of Vienna defeating the advancing Muslims. Every Pole
and most well informed Americans of Polish heritage know thus, so Angela Merkel, the entire EU and even Pope Francis have absolutely no hope of getting
Poland to take in muslims, just never gonna happen.
So they are totally sympatico with Pres Trump.
Trum gives the Polish reason to hope that a superpower nation will stop the pressure inviting in all these invading Islamic men.
The power of the US is still such that it can bend weaker nations and make them into de facto puppets, irregardless of what the people want their leaders to do.
Not sure what “do the right thing in foreign affairs” refers to.
“…if he is able to string two coherent words together…”
Obama, the darling of the Left (cue the infatuated faithful) was someone who was able to string two coherent—to be sure mostly dishonest—words together….and then some.
(Of course, a teleprompter does come in handy…)
Ah, yes, Obama….and Eastern Europe….and Jews:
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/221128/phone-call-from-biden-said-to-precipitate-ukraines-un-yes-vote
Per Roger Kimball at PJ Media, Trump hit the ball out of the park in his speech in Poland. Sort of an “Ich bin ein Berliner” moment.
My bias is for “New Europe” versus “Old Europe,” in spite of my ethnic background being all “Old Europe.” My hometown had a lot of people of Central/Eastern European origin. I grew up with too many Iron Curtain refugees from Europe and Asia- and worked with them in Latin America- to swallow the anti-anti-Communist line. (Yes, I did know a couple of Cuban refugees, but they were a minority among the Iron Curtain refugees I knew.)
Poland has no problem with Islamic terrorists because Poland doesn’t let many Muslims in. Funny, that.
I see a similarity between those who back in the day were pushing the anti-anti-Communist line and those who are now crying “Islamophobia.” Not that those who are against “Islamophobes” would like to live in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, mind you. Similarly, most of the “anti-anti-Communists” much preferred Los Angeles to Moscow.
Funny that the President- whom the media has been telling us for the last year was a Russian tool- is selling missile defense system to Poland. What a tool! It’s even funnier when you realize that the party who was filled with anti-anti-Communists, who for decades told us that fear of the Soviet Union was paranoia, has been pushing the “Trump is a Russian tool” line.
Enough ranting.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was to some extent an inspiration for the U.S. Constitution. The Poles saving Vienna was the inspiration for the Battle of Helm’s Deep in the Lord of the Rings. It also inspired a heavy metal song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zmIj_4LFQ
Before after 2008 election, blacks and others were shouting “We are no longer American nation, but the Obamanation”
Get it. Obamanation? What does that sound like
Abomination of desolation.
It’s even funnier when you realize that the party who was filled with anti-anti-Communists, who for decades told us that fear of the Soviet Union was paranoia, has been pushing the “Trump is a Russian tool” line.
Gringo, funny as 1984’s war is peace mantra. The Leftist zombies already sold their souls. Expecting them to think is… abnormal.
A sensible person must- MUST -love Poland as possibly the bastion of Western civilization in Europe. Remember Solidarity and Pope John Paul II, who succeeded in freeing Poland from the Soviet grip ( though the USSR was financially dying, which very few of us knew then).
Read the just-released book by Douglas Murray, “The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam”, to get a better grip on Europe’s intentional suicidal path. Which he deems irreversible. As do I, a much less qualified individual who thanks God that I am not a German citizen in today’s Germany, with its Muslim hordes, empty churches, and infinite righteous political prattle attesting to its suicidal zeal.
Murray points out that “Throughout most of its history, and certainly for the past millenium, Britain had retained an extraordinarily static population. Even the Norman Conquest in 1066- perhaps the most important event in the islands’ history- led to no more than five percent of the population of England being Norman.”
That all changed post World War II, incrementally and progressively. Despite the British public being overwhelmingly and persistently opposed to post-war migration policies. Open borders for all Commonwealth citizens. Sound familiar?
Now 23 of London’s 33 boroughs have a minority of ‘white Britons’ and London has a Muslim mayor. Diversity!!
Poland, with its strong Christianity despite decades of anti-clerical opposition, will hopefully remain a surviving repository of the greatness of Western civilization. Germany, France, and the UK are pffft.
If you want your kids and grandkids to see the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, they’d best go soon. The Muslim suburbs surround central Paris.
Very good points, Frog. This struck me: ” the USSR was financially dying, which very few of us knew then”. Nowadays our muckety-mucks throw money at our financially strapped enemies. I was delighted when Trump opposed the Paris Treaty because there’s no accounting for where the Green Fund money goes.
Federal reserve doesn’t need to account for Green money. They just print it up as they go.
mollynh
As I have mentioned before Poland’s King Jan Sobieski
commanded the Christian forces at the Battle of Vienna defeating the advancing Muslims.
From Project Gutenberg:On the Field of Glory: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
Viva Cow Hampshire!