Recently, media outlets supportive of the December 13 coalition government have been attacking President Karol Nawrocki over his meeting with Viktor Orbán. The main reason is said to be the fact that the Hungarian prime minister has not severed relations with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. However, when the current opposition brings up Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s meetings with Putin, Telewizja Polska in liquidation steps in to defend the head of government. What arguments do they use?
Yesterday, TVP Info aired a segment intended to explain why Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with Vladimir Putin even after Russia attacked Georgia. According to the editors of the broadcaster in liquidation, these meetings took place during holidays and official celebrations but were marked by… difficult relations.
An expert invited to the studio explained that the meetings between Tusk and Putin, captured in photographs, provided an opportunity to “discuss real cooperation at the diplomatic level and trade exchange with Russia.” Dr. Emilia Zakrzewska claims it was “a pragmatic policy, but marked by difficult relations.”
As internet users point out, these are arguments similar to those that are dismissed when it comes to President Karol Nawrocki’s meeting with Viktor Orbán.
There is, however, a fundamental difference. The Prime Minister of Hungary is not a war criminal.
“Telewizja Polska comes to Tusk’s aid regarding his meetings with Putin. Here is how direct contacts with a criminal, contacts which, it is worth recalling, took place after the brutal attack on Georgia, are being explained:
notes one internet user.
– The meetings took place during holidays and official celebrations
– It was cooperation at the diplomatic level
– It involved cooperation in the field of trade exchange
– It was a fairly pragmatic policy, but marked by difficult relations
Exactly the same arguments are being made that are rejected in the case of the president’s meeting with Viktor Orbán. The difference, however, is that Putin is and was at that time a criminal, a murderer, and an imperialist, while Viktor Orbán, despite many flaws, does not bear these sins. Such disgusting hypocrites,”