Trump’s Poland Problem Just Got Bigger

The Polish government’s threat to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and efforts to destroy the opposition are signs that the European nation’s leadership will be a problem for the president-elect.

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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk during a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, July 2, 2024.

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President-elect Donald Trump’s imminent return to the White House has caused many of his loudest European critics to rummage uncertainly through their diplomatic toolkits in preparation for Trump 2.0. Not keen to picking up hammers and sharp implements, most are preparing to soften their responses to the incoming administration.

This is not so in Poland, where the government of former EU Council President and current prime minister, Donald Tusk, looks not for tools but for weapons — spears to throw at its friends abroad and knives to jab at its critics at home.

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Peter Doran

Peter Doran is a senior adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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Matt Boyse

Matt Boyse is a former deputy assistant secretary of state and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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