The US ambassador did not specify what the alleged insults were, but the target, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, declared on Monday that would not support an initiative by his Israeli and American counterparts to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The US ambassador to Poland announced that the United States will no longer have “any contact, relationship or communication” with the president of the Lower House of the Polish parliament, due to his alleged “outrageous and gratuitous insults” to President Donald Trump.
Ambassador Tom Rose did not specify what the alleged insults were, but the target, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, declared on Monday that would not support an initiative by his Israeli and American counterparts to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump “represents power politics and, through the use of force, practices a transactional policy”, he explained.
This often means “violating international law”added the Polish politician, one of the leaders of a left-wing party in the liberal government led by Donald Tusk.
He also criticized Trump for not sufficiently recognizing the role played by Polish soldiers in North American military missions and for the “instrumental treatment of other territories”, such as Greenland.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded promptly to Rose’s announcement.
“Mr Ambassador Rose, allies must respect each other, not berate each other,” Tusk wrote on Thursday afternoon.
Rose also responded to Tusk that, despite the Polish Prime Minister himself being “an exemplary ally and a great friend of the United States”, the Czarzasty’s comments “were potentially damaging to his government”.
Insulting Trump, “the greatest friend Poland has ever had in the White House”, was “the last thing” a Polish leader should do, Rose warned.
Since Trump came to power, the Poland has struggled to balance the defense of its European allies with the concern not to displease its most powerful ally, the United States, on which peace in neighboring Ukraine depends.
To this end, Warsaw has delegated European Union issues to Tusk, while President Karol Nawrocki, who came to power supported by the national-conservative opposition party Law and Justice, maintains good relations with Trump.
Trump supported Nawrocki during last year’s presidential campaign and welcomed him to the White House shortly after taking office in September.
When the two presidents met side by side at the White House, Trump declared that he does not intend to withdraw US troops from Poland, a sign of support for Nawrocki, even admitting to “putting more troops” in this country, if Warsaw wished.
