Pragmatism of the kind that allowed Western powers to ignore crimes such as Katyn in 1940 or the Smolensk air tragedy in 2010 is hard to live with, but in principle, there is nothing wrong with pragmatism in international relations.
As Donald Tusk and others in the present government continue to attack and offend the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the former British Prime Minister and current Foreign Minister Lord Cameron went to meet Trump in Florida, and will soon meet President Joe Biden in Washington.
Why can’t we be so pragmatic? Is it because our liberals see it as their duty to support Biden against Trump at any cost? Must our government be cheerleaders for the Democrats? And for what? To be patted on the back by the liberal media?
I understand that the liberals and the left want Biden to win and no one expects them to change their political preferences, but attacking Trump when his chances of winning are growing by the day, knowing how sensitive to personal criticism he can be is, to paraphrase Talleyrand, worse than a crime, it’s an error.
I want Trump to win because I think that this will be better for both Poland and the United States, but I want to see Poland maintaining good relations with whoever is in the White House because that is in the national interest.
We need more pragmatism from our government. Ideology must not overshadow the national interest.
