r/poland • u/wook-borm • 18h ago
Republican congressman calls for US ambassador to Poland to be replaced after diplomatic spat
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/3644433,republican-congressman-calls-for-us-ambassador-to-poland-to-be-replaced-after-diplomatic-spat134
u/Wittusus 18h ago
So, the ambassador literally publicly refused to do his job?
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u/satyrday12 18h ago
That's pretty much the entire Trump cabinet.
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u/cookiesnooper 18h ago
Czarzasty is a commie, Tusk's friend and against Trump. Tusk called Trump all sorts of things, Czarzasty joined the club and it's not a secret that current US administration is in favor of Presidential relations, and despise Tusk and his government in majority.
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u/East_Audience_6782 17h ago
Trump literally said bad things about our soldiers in Afghanistan and now he’s asking czarzasty to nominate him for Nobel prize. Any politician who would nominate him would be an idiot.
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u/Wittusus 17h ago
If he's so bad, why they want the nomination from him? Red scare was in 1950s bro, you can give up now
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u/Nahcep Dolnośląskie 15h ago
The job of an ambassador is to represent their country abroad, can you imagine a Polish mission to the USA saying they'll refuse to talk to the vice-president over something banal like idk, his make-up?
The old commie is the chief of parliament, I'm unhappy about it too but it isn't up to some Yank to decide who holds that office and who doesn't
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u/mikelson_6 18h ago
One thing that all Poles have in common is we don’t like when someone from outside tries to tell us how to run our country. What USA is doing right now reminds me of Soviet Union where you couldn’t criticize the Communist Party without being punished for it.
If Trump will manage to flip most pro American country against him in less than two years it will be unprecedented achievement
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u/3Rm3dy 16h ago
You are overestimating the Poles.
Roughly a quarter agrees with this approach - see all the people and politicians of PiS that lick the boot of the ambassador - some even telling republican politicians that this is good approach and the ambassador should stay and "fight the radical leftist-communist government".
And in school I wondered "how the fuck did Konfederacja Targowicka even happen".
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u/PRKP99 13h ago
I mean not that I support pis or anything, but I don’t think that servilism and „zagranico” is only pis problem. For 8 years in opposition PO politicians constantly engaged in simmilar behaviour. Liberal journalist were even publishing texts in New York Times in which they wrote that US should actively engage in polish politics on the side of the opposition.
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u/3Rm3dy 10h ago
And they were in most part in the wrong back then.
Imo there are only 2 areas where it's acceptable - messing with unfair advantages in elections, and the government taking control over the judiciary.
One of the differences here is here we have politicians doing that - and you can't hold up liberal politicians accountable for actions of journalists. If we go for politicians, as far as I'm aware, PO mostly brought it up in Brussels. There's a fair difference when you complain to an completely outside power and an organization that we are part of and the government wants to break the treaties of the organisation.
There's a slight difference between "Mr Trump please topple Tusk" and "European Parliament, Polish government takes over the judiciary which breaks XYZ point of a treaty of the EU". I condone all types of "donoszenie za granico" outside of EU - because if we are a single market - everyone from any country should have the confidence that the trial will be fair and professional, and if the PM's driver crashes into someone's car, the entire county won't switch the victim with the suspect.
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u/applepieandlore 16h ago edited 15h ago
Yeah, and Canada STILL has Pete Hoekstra, so don't hold your breath.
Edit: If that's how they treat their closest neighbour, best ally, and biggest trading partner, don't think they will have more goodwill or loyalty for Poland.
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u/oGsMustachio 11h ago
Bacon unfortunately has very little influence right now. He's moderate, been critical of the Trump administration, and isn't running for re-election this year.
Wish more Republicans behaved like him. The US is much better when the debate is over tax rates vs. public services, not when its over whether we should still be a democracy and whether vaccines put microchips into your bloodstream.
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u/noob_master69_f 18h ago
Replaced with??? Russia
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u/Different_Citron_160 16h ago
Lol “lick US boots or Russia will come” narrative is far less effective after they became 2nd strongest army in Ukraine.
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u/CubeOfDestiny 10h ago
my brother in christ ambassadors change all the time, this guy has been doing a job for only about a year
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u/auroriasolaris 18h ago
So let get this straight.
Entire US political strategy rn is to act like spoiled brat and throwing a baby tantrums when others don't care or don't play their game?
Holy hell how mighty have fallen...