Emmanuel Macron’s strongman act on sending troops to Ukraine doesn’t seem to have borne much fruit in other European countries. New polling shows that three-quarters of Poles don’t want any Nato army, including their own, to join Ukraine in its war against Russia.
This isn’t so much a rebuke to Macron as to his fellow fan of continental war, Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk. It was Tusk, after all, who said in December that the West should be ready for “full mobilisation” to aid the Ukrainian effort.
Poland’s Foreign Minister further prodded the bear last week in calling for the establishment of a Nato mission in Ukraine, but stopped just short of saying that troops needed to enter the fray. All this disagreement with the electorate must remind Tusk of his time in Brussels…
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