Polish President Andrzej Duda revealed that the most heated debate that took place in Paris during a meeting of heads of state called by French President Emmanuel Macron concerned the issue of sending troops to Ukraine. Duda admitted that there was no consensus on the issue.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico had earlier revealed that there was discussion about some NATO member states sending troops to Ukraine on the basis of bilateral agreements with Ukraine. According to Reuters, the White House denied that the U.S. was planning to send troops to Ukraine.
Commenting on these revelations, Łukasz Warzecha wrote on X that he is “afraid that Donald Tusk’s expressions and plans to hold a closed session of Poland’s parliament do not augur well.”
Warzecha argued that “the sending of Polish forces should be clearly and categorically rejected by the present government” and that “the absence of such a declaration will raise suspicions as to what is being planned.” He added that “no government has the right to embroil us in this conflict.”
Warzecha wrote that he does not understand what is to be served “by the escalation of rhetoric when nothing has happened in Ukraine to warrant it, as there is a stalemate in the conflict.” He also wondered whether it had anything to do with the idea of European federalization, demanding that the Polish president explain the context for the discussion that was held in Paris.
He also did praise Duda, but said that the Polish president needs to make it clear Poland has no intention of becoming involved in the Ukrainian conflict with Polish troops.
“It’s good that the president is talking about what happened in Paris. However, what I miss is a clear statement as to who was in favor of such a suicidal step and that Poland absolutely does not intend to do this,” he wrote.
Finally, Warzecha noted that although reports of Polish troops participating in fighting in Ukraine turned out to be false, there was evidence that police had been sent there for active duty and that the Polish public was for months kept in the dark about the practice.
