The unusual words of Trump
President Donald Trump in an interview with Fox News stated that the United States had never needed NATO support or turned to allies for help. He besides estimated that during the mission to Afghanistan, NATO troops remained in any distance from the front line.
Let's hope that never happens. Never them. [NATO troops – ed.] We didn't request it. We never truly asked them for anything. You know, they'll say they sent troops to Afghanistan or there and there, and they did. But they kept a small behind, distant from the front line.
This operation, which active over 33,000 Polish soldiers and military personnel, was a consequence of the US's launch of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Donald Trump's message met with widespread outrage in NATO countries and was criticized by both politicians and veterans of military missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Duda speaks of an “unfortunate and awkward” speech
Former president and Chief of Armed Forces Andrzej Duda commented on this message in RMF FM stating that he saw no reason for Donald Trump to apologize due to the fact that his words did not offend anyone.
If president Trump is looking at this from the point of view of how active the American army was and how many American soldiers were killed, then no NATO army has any comparison in terms of losses, with the American army.
The programme manager asked Duda if she would like to hear “sorry” to the president of the United States.
‘Sorry’? I don't see anything in that message that would justify the word "sorry" due to the fact that president Trump didn't insult anyone. He assessed Duda.
Duda described the words of the American leader as “unfortunate and awkward” and stressed that it was good that the Polish authorities drew attention to them. At the same time, he pointed out that the biggest sound around this speech was made by those who had late disregarded the Polish uniform.
Nawrocki's omission
The erstwhile president was besides asked about the controversy surrounding the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, including whether he considered it a scandal that president Nawrocka was not welcomed during the main part of the ceremony.
Theoretically, diplomatic protocol would require the president to be greeted first. Well, this is simply a peculiar place, and I don't think president Charles Nawrocki would pay any attention to that. It is besides to a large degree a question of what were the findings between the President's Chancellery, the directorate, the authorities of the Auschwitz Museum, and another high-level participants. As for these ceremonies, specified arrangements were usually made Andrzej Duda replied.
She recalled that Duda, as the President-in-Office, attended the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp last year. The erstwhile president pointed out that there was no controversy at the time and he did not callback any problems with those ceremonies.
