Polish → English transcript

…so the American security strategy

cannot be, ladies and gentlemen, a surprise for

anyone who has followed the statements of President

Donald Trump, who has spoken with President Donald

Trump personally, as I have several times, and thus

knows a man who takes responsibility also,

shared responsibility for the security of all

of Europe, and in fact for the security of the entire

world. These are clear guidelines, ladies and gentlemen,

in this security strategy, about which they say,

first, America, which was President Donald

Trump’s slogan, and on the other hand, which in no

way is confrontational — that also resonated

in the words of President Rinkēvičs — in relation

to the security vision of the countries of Central Europe

and the countries of Eastern Europe, which pay their

security, who are not only recipients,

but also providers of security in their region,

who build formats such as the Three Seas Initiative

and in general take responsibility for the eastern

flank of NATO, who also are glad about this,

or expect this, that American soldiers

are present in the region. In Poland we have close to ten thousand

American soldiers. We in Central Europe,

in Eastern Europe, simply do not have, ladies and

gentlemen, the time or the emotional energy to deal with things

that at times are the most important — it seems —

for Western Europe, and are wrapped up in issues

of ideology, Green Deals, or ideologies,

because we are dealing with security. And when we said this

for many years, and let me remind you that the late

President Lech Kaczyński also spoke about this,

and Europe did not listen to this, the matter seemed

unimportant to Western Europe. When the president

Donald Trump says this, and he says it in a similar way

to how we had been saying it for many years

and I repeated it also during the election campaign,

and I say this as the president of Poland, it is a great

question mark as to why this kind of words are spoken.

Yes, we are in a situation in which we should

focus on security, in which we should take

responsibility for our own security.

Latvia, Poland and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

are doing that. Yes, we are in a time in which the European

Union is in chaos and the essence of democracy

is to talk about it.