The 37 million views of Tusk’s “Dear American Friends” post will not mask the truth: serious states meet in London, Geneva and Riyadh, and the Polish prime minister publishes Twitter-style appeals. Piotr Semka said on Radio Republika (RR), “This is politics in short pants. Either Tusk wants to mask the fact that he is not part of the game, or he believes that this style offers something. In both cases – it’s sad,” he said.
Serious European states are playing a strategic game around Ukraine, meeting in London, while our prime minister is busy lecturing Americans via little Twitter texts, Semka said on Radio Republika. “Donald Tusk either wants to mask that he is not a participant in the game, or he simply believes that this style of conducting politics brings results. In both cases, it is a sad scenario,” he stated.
The prime minister’s and Minister Bosacki’s posts claiming that “there is no problem” because Poland was not invited to any of the key conferences (London, Geneva, Riyadh) are, as Semka puts it briefly:
“Others are doing politics; we are publishing posts on X. This is politics in short pants.”
The biggest problem, however, is the internal conflict:
“Poland’s foreign policy is weak because it is split between President Nawrocki and Prime Minister Tusk. People in other countries don’t care that the prime minister and the president cannot coordinate their actions. We are a country with the largest potential for internal conflict – it is roughly balanced and paralyzes our ability to play a role on the international stage.”
Semka on Trump’s new strategy:
“A shift in American policy was anticipated and, from America’s point of view, logical. The reaction to the absurdities of idealism is understandable, but one cannot programmatically reject the element of idealism that has always existed in America and which led it to intervene in Europe twice.”
The greatest concern, however, arises from the almost total absence of Russia in the document:
“Russia barely appears in the strategy, and there is not a single word stating that Russia is an aggressor-state. I understand that Trump wants to end the war and does not want to provoke Russia, but everyone living in our part of Europe knows that a strategy of not provoking Russia never ends well. One should not seek confrontation with Russia, but neither should one pretend that it is a pleasant country like Switzerland or Finland.”
Semka’s summary offers little optimism:
“Macron and Starmer have weak cards, but they play hard and do not get offended. We tweet. And that is the entire picture of Polish foreign policy Anno Domini 2025.”