HURRICANE GEORGETTE
Georgette Mosbacher may have been the ‘eccentric grande dame of GOP fundraising’ in New York, but she’s an even more unusual envoy for Trump in Warsaw.
Oskar Górzyński is a world affairs writer at Wirtualna Polska, a major Polish news site.
POLES APART
Last July, Trump thought the Polish people were ‘so fantastic,’ and many shared that opinion of him. Now, it’s ‘don’t call us, we’ll call you.’ Reason: The Holocaust bill.
HISTORYONICS
Far-right and outright fascist movements with links to Moscow are sowing discord among Ukraine and its European Union neighbors.
DICTOCRACY?
The ruling party has suppressed systematically any challenge to its authority ever since it came to power in 2015. But after the Trump visit, it picked up the pace.
WARSAW UPRISING
In the a.m., he offered Poland ‘no guarantees’ against Russian aggression. In the p.m., he endorsed NATO’s common-defense clause. Will the real Donald Trump please stand up?
POLES APART
The populism Team Trump once hoped would destroy the European Union has been defeated in the West. But it remains strong, in power, and increasingly authoritarian in the East.