Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk took to Twitter over the weekend, after another Russian air attack on Ukraine, to say that Ukraine was being attacked while former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, of the Law and Justice party (PiS), is attending a conference with “pro-Putin politicians” from the conservative nationalist right.
Tusk was referring to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in Budapest, which was attended by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
In his post, Tusk asks rhetorically whether Morawiecki’s actions are “foolishness, treason or both?”
Morawiecki, who is an MP, fired back, reminding Tusk that it was the PiS government that rushed to help Ukraine in 2022 and contrasted this with the far more restrained response of the last Tusk government to the annexation of Crimea and attack on the Donbas back in 2014.
“You’re a miserable propagandist who is co-responsible for what is happening in Ukraine today. When you were having your reset with the Russians, they were arming themselves and planning to destroy Ukraine. It took us some time to wake up your ally Germany to reality after the invasion, and if it hadn’t been for our Polish government, Ukraine may have fallen back in 2022,” wrote Morawiecki.
Morawiecki spoke at the CPAC conference concentrating on the topic of migration. He said Europe was hovering on the edge of the abyss and was a classic case of pride coming before a fall. He called the wave of illegal migration sweeping Europe a threat to both the peace and stability of the continent.
