“The president of the United States seems strangely immune to all the nasty things Putin does to him,” says Gen. Stanisław Koziej, criticizing the American leader’s attitude toward the president of Russia. Coming from him, the accusation of being pro-Russian is at least misguided.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that Tuesday’s meeting between his envoys and Vladimir Putin was “very good.” He added that “it takes two to tango.” He again stated that Putin wants to end the war and that Ukraine should have struck a deal with Russia months ago.
“You know, when I was in that office (the Oval Office), and I told the Ukrainians, you don’t have any cards, that it was the time for a settlement. I thought it would have been a much better moment to make a deal, but they, in their wisdom, decided not to do it. They now have a lot going against them, but President Putin had a very good meeting with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff,” Trump told reporters.
Wirtualna Polska asked Gen. Stanisław Koziej about the negotiations around the peace plan for Ukraine and Washington’s moves toward the Kremlin. He doesn’t mince words, repeatedly aiming at the president of the United States.
With reproach, he says that “apparently, Trump still wants to believe in himself” and “wants to believe in his method of approaching Putin.” During the conversation, the statement falls that “the United States wants to profit from Kyiv’s capitulation.”
“They want to later take part in benefiting from various funds that would go to Ukraine for rebuilding. They want to participate in this and exploit it together with Russia after the war. In Trump’s policy, business and economic considerations clearly overshadow security concerns. That’s a very big mistake,”
Gen. Koziej argues.
He concludes his commentary by saying: “the president of the U.S. seems strangely immune to all the nasty things Putin does to him.”
What is astonishing is the boldness with which Gen. Koziej criticizes the president of the United States for attempts to end the war, and solely based on media reports. It is all the more surprising when contrasted with his own biography.
As head of the National Security Bureau during President Bronisław Komorowski’s term, Gen. Koziej pursued a policy of rapprochement with Putin’s Russia.
In 2011, Gazeta Polska revealed that in August 1987, Gen. Koziej attended a General Staff course of the USSR, secured by the GRU. At the time, Gen. Koziej was also a member of the PZPR executive committee. As a soldier of the First Directorate of the General Staff from 1978 to 1981, he took part in developing the plan for a Warsaw Pact attack on Western European countries.
As head of the National Security Bureau, he invited to the Bureau’s 20th anniversary Gen. Nikolai Patrushev of the KGB, Secretary of the Security Council to the President of Russia, and a friend of Vladimir Putin.