“It was a great honor for me to meet with the great Jarosław Kaczyński, Chairman of Law and Justice, to talk about leadership, security, and the future of the US–Polish alliance,” wrote U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose. The PiS leader, in turn, acknowledged that he received with particular satisfaction the appreciation expressed for the United Right government’s efforts to strengthen Poland’s defense.
“I am pleased that I had the opportunity to meet and talk with Ambassador Tom Rose. We discussed many issues: relations between our countries, the security of Poland and the region, the importance of pursuing a sovereign policy and Poland’s role in the world, as well as history and the current political situation,” Kaczyński wrote on X. Mariusz Błaszczak and Radosław Fogiel also attended the meeting.
“I received with particular satisfaction the appreciation of our government’s actions in strengthening Poland’s defense,”
the PiS chairman noted.
The post was also published on the official profile of the U.S. Embassy.
“Poland does not need lectures—it needs her European allies to be as strong as she is,”
the statement began.
“It was a great honor for me to meet with the great Jarosław Kaczyński, Chairman of Law and Justice, to talk about leadership, security, and the future of the US–Polish alliance,”
Ambassador Rose assured.
He confirmed – consistent with declarations by President Donald Trump – that “the U.S.–Poland partnership is built on realism, sovereignty, and results.”
Tom Rose is a right-wing columnist and radio commentator and a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. Before his nomination, he co-hosted the Bauer & Rose Show.
From 1997 to 2005, he was publisher and editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, and earlier, he served in the government of the state of Indiana, from which he hails. In the 1980s, he was also a journalist for a Japanese television network and authored the book Big Miracle about an operation to free whales trapped beneath Arctic ice. The book was adapted into a Hollywood film in 2012.
During a July hearing before a Senate committee, Rose repeatedly praised Poland as a model ally. He announced that he would seek to improve relations between Poland and Israel and argued that Poland is unfairly blamed in Israel for complicity in the Holocaust. He also said that he has excellent relations with both the government and the opposition PiS and pledged that he would not favor any side of Poland’s political scene.