“This is a proposal that is a broader version of Pax America. What do the Americans not want from us, even though they can be difficult? They don’t want to take our state away. The Germans want to take it from us, the French – together with them, I don’t know why. The European bureaucracy is eager to do so, the Americans are not. There is a clear emphasis that these are to be sovereign states,” said Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Law and Justice (PiS), today in Katowice about Donald Trump’s proposal made a month ago.
During his speech in Katowice, Jarosław Kaczyński referred to Donald Trump’s address during the general debate of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025.
The Law and Justice leader spoke about the “proposal,” which, as he noted, was “something very general, but also a very important one, because it is a proposal to organize democratic states on a global scale in such a way as to form a kind of ‘‘’armed democracy.'”
“Each of these states must spend at least 5 percent of its GDP on defense. That’s quite a bit less than what countries spent before the end of the 1980s, before the collapse of the communist system. Back then, the average was nearly 6 percent of GDP. These are not impossible things – Europe rebuilt and developed fantastically while spending a great deal on armaments,” argued Jarosław Kaczyński.
He added that “a high level of defense spending does not in itself block economic development.”
“This is a proposal that is a broader version of Pax America. What do the Americans not want from us, even though they can be difficult? They don’t want to take our state away. The Germans want to take it from us, the French – together with them, I don’t know why. The European bureaucracy is eager to do so, the Americans are not. There is a clear emphasis that these are to be sovereign states. And that is why we in no way assume that this concept is meant to abolish the EU – it is meant to clearly reform it, returning to sovereign states,” assessed the Law and Justice leader.
He pointed out that the issue is worth discussing and that “we should make efforts, also on our part, to start moving in that direction.” He proposed, among other things, convening a conference of “international political forces” and presenting the issue in a global forum.