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EU Should Enlarge, Even Out of Despair – COMMENTARY
3 October 2024
Once seen as a fantasy of fringe Polish sovereignists, obtaining a nuclear deterrent by Poland has entered mainstream discourse. After Donald Trump’s latest threats to abandon NATO and the Republican blockade of funds for Ukraine, Warsaw has become aware that US security guarantees can no longer be an article of faith.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski had a good media run in Washington and New York at the end of February. His blunt, eloquent debunking of Russia’s falsification of history at the UN meeting to justify its war on Ukraine made international headlines as “one for the ages,” as a prominent historian remarked.
He got their attention
Sikorski’s multiple interviews on US networks were powerful in making the case to the Republican party that blocking the military aid package for Ukraine was a major policy blunder which weakened, rather than enhanced, America’s own security.
As such this line has been argued, perhaps not as eloquently, by voices in America and Europe for months, but what made Sikorski’s intervention special was the nuclear kicker.
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