Solely Donald Trump can cease Vladimir Putin, Polish president tells BBC

[ad_1] Donald Trump is the one world chief able to stopping Vladimir Putin from threatening Europe, based on Poland's President Karol Nawrocki.

In an interview with Radio 4's As we speak programme he stated the Russian chief was to not be trusted, however that Europe wanted to do all the pieces it might to help President Trump in his efforts to finish the conflict in Ukraine.

President Nawrocki was already well-known as a agency supporter of Donald Trump even earlier than he landed in Britain for conferences with PM Sir Keir Starmer and others.

Now, he says that with Vladimir Putin's Russia threatening his nation in addition to central and japanese Europe, the US president was the one one who might, as he put it, "clear up this downside" – in addition to ending the conflict in Ukraine.

Referring to final September's mass incursion by Russian drones, when greater than 20 uncrewed plane crossed into Poland from Belarus and Ukraine, President Nawrocki referred to as it "a rare state of affairs", including that "till that point, no Nato member state had skilled a drone assault on that scale". Russia, he stated, was testing Poland's defences and testing Nato's solidarity.

The Polish president then thanked Britain for sending over RAF Storm jets to assist defend his borders. He stated Poland had been in a state of hybrid conflict with Russia since 2021, because it handled drones and disinformation.

This Russian gray zone exercise confirmed "we live in harmful occasions", he added.

He was requested about his friendship with Donald Trump, notably within the mild of the US president's threats to take over "by any means" the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland, one thing which has rattled Europe and which threatens to rupture the 77-year outdated Nato alliance.

The US, he insisted, regardless of current statements by US officers on the contrary, was nonetheless the guarantor of safety in Europe. What Donald Trump was doing on behalf of the Europeans, he stated, "deserved help and nice respect". President Nawrocki stated he might see Europe "detaching" itself from the USA and stated this was good neither for the financial safety nor the navy safety of the European Union.

That also left the awkward query of Greenland. This dialogue, he stated, ought to stay a matter between the Danish prime minister and President Trump. Karol Nawrocki was satisfied that this query can be resolved via Nato and thru dialogue between Denmark and the US.

However President Nawrocki additionally used this interview to criticise European leaders for, as he put it, being "concerned in not so necessary issues, in ideological points corresponding to inexperienced deal for example, local weather coverage, migration points". Europe, he stated, was not constructing its resilience and safety through the years, whereas Poland was now allocating shut to five% of its GDP to defence.

For Britain, although, he had some heat phrases. Relations between Poland and the UK have been "extraordinarily necessary" and at the moment round a million Poles lived within the UK.

"I wish to specific my very deep appreciation for the British troopers who're stationed in Poland... taking accountability for Nato's Jap flank," he stated. He expressed his hope that, with Poland's economic system rising quickly, Britain as host of subsequent 12 months's G20 summit would invite Poland to take part.