“I am interested in transferring all the cooperation that Germany has with the United States to Poland. Very willingly,” Duda added.
The Polish president was also skeptical about Merz’s other suggestion that Europe might have to find a replacement for NATO.
“NATO without the United States? … Everything is possible, but what’s the point? If there is a security alliance without the United States, then its guarantees without the world’s strongest power would simply be illusory,” Duda said.
“A reliable ally is, above all, the United States, which has repeatedly shown over the last hundred years that when they return to the game, they are able to interrupt any armed conflict, to end it. We saw this during World War I, we saw this during World War II, right here in Europe,” the president said.
Under the Polish political system, the government, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk — a Duda opponent — takes the lead in foreign and military policy.
Tusk is also strongly pro-American, but has been taking the lead in meetings of European leaders to figure out the continent’s security policy in light of what is happening in the United States.
