For Poland, There Is No Plan B, nationalinterest.org

Eugeniusz Smolar, foreign policy analyst

Many in Poland are worried as President Trump’s policies call all former certainties into question. We fear that a new world order where might makes right will lead to a dangerous disorder in which we could find ourselves on the receiving end. […]

Potential pressure, particularly concerning the US military presence in Poland, will pose a grave dilemma for the government. The tensions were highlighted by the newly appointed US ambassador to Poland, Thomas Rose, who, in a Polish television interview in January, keeping in mind the approaching presidential election, outlined a choice that was as dangerous as it was inaccurate: “The government has to decide whether Poland wants to move closer to the centers of power in the EU—Germany and France—which could affect relations with the US, or whether it wants to remain a sovereign, proud country that fulfills its alliance commitments.” Läs artikel