Der polnische General, der im Irak diente, verurteilt den „Feigling“ Trump wegen Kritik an NATO-Verbündeten

General Roman Polko, who commanded Poland’s GROM special forces unit in Iraq and Afghanistan, has condemned Donald Trump’s recent comments suggesting that America’s allies have not provided frontline military support to the United States.

Polko, who is now retired, called the US president “a coward who has never been on the front lines”. Meanwhile, Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, declared that “no one has the right to mock the service of our soldiers”.

Amid tensions over Trump’s efforts to take control of Greenland, the US president has repeatedly questioned whether his country can rely on its NATO allies.

“Will they be there, if we ever needed them?” Trump asked on Thursday in an interview with Fox News. “I’m not sure of that.”

“We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did – they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,” he continued.

In actual fact, military personnel from various NATO allies served in combat roles in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq this century, with many losing their lives.

In Afghanistan, the highest number of casualties after the United States (2,461 deaths) were for the UK (457), Canada (159), France (90), Germany (62), Italy (53) and Poland (44). In Iraq, 23 Polish soldiers were killed, behind only the US (4,492), UK (179) and Italy (33).

Among those to serve in both arenas was Polko, who was commander of GROM from 2000 to 2004 and again in 2006. Since ending his military service in 2009, he has served as a security advisor to three presidents, Lech Kaczyński, Bronisław Komorowski and Andrzej Duda.

Speaking on Friday to broadcaster TVN, Polka said that Trump’s latest remarks had “crossed a red line”, especially coming from someone who never served in the military.

“This is the cynicism of a coward who hasn’t been on the front lines himself,” declared the general. “In this respect, he resembles Putin, who also wages wars but has never even approached the front lines himself.”

Not one Trump served in any type of military service. In fact, he has openly called these people losers and suckers. He has no respect for any veteran in his own country, let alone any other country. This family is an absolute shit stain (both figuratively and literally) on America.

He’s right. Trump is a coward, and the Republican congress is spineless.

wannabe king orange shit stain is enshitifying everything, everyday. We need a „National Day of Shame“ to atone for such a horrible choice for president.

I’ve said it before, the US owes an unpaid debt to Poland. Two Polish generals played major roles in the American revolution, one dying. We then let Poland rot behind the Iron Curtain after WW2, when we clearly could have pushed the Soviets to withdraw back to their 1939 borders.

Poles helped us out in the Persian Gulf War – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Simoom

And they helped us in Iraq and Afghanistan, being in charge or a whole region of Iraq for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_involvement_in_the_Iraq_War

We’ve repaid our debt to France through WW1 and WW2, but Poland has been a good ally to us and we’ve been a bad ally to them.

And Polish general is absolutely correct.