Russia must join the "responsible countries"

What Donald Trump spoke about in Warsaw - on the eve of the meeting with Putin

US President Donald Trump on July 6 began the first official visit to Europe with a performance in Warsaw - the day before the start of the G20 summit in Hamburg and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump made a speech on Krasinsky Square at the monument to the heroes of the Warsaw Uprising 1944 before the crowd of supporters who chanted his name. Trump criticized Russia and announced the need to protect Western civilization. Medusa tells what the first visit of President Trump to Poland was.

Trump spoke about the friendship of Poland and the USA. Warsaw is one of the most reliable US allies in NATO; Poland, for example, considers the main threat to Russia, the American intelligence agencies shall have a similar opinion. According to Trump, America loves Poland and Poles and is proud of relations between countries. The US President called Poland the country of Copernicus, Chopin and John Paul II, and also recalled the military merits of the Poles, including the Battle of Vistula in 1920, which stopped the promotion of the Red Army and allowed Poland to maintain independence.

The Western world is in danger, Trump is sure. The need to protect "our civilization" is the main topic of the speech of the US president in Warsaw. According to Trump, the Western world is in the face of a terrorist threat, and must unite and protect itself. “We put every effort to fight Islamic terrorism. And we prevail, ”he said.

Trump criticized Russia. Speaking about the dangers threatening the West, the US President noted that Russia is engaged in the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, and also supports “hostile regimes”, including Syria and Iran. Trump said that he was calling for Moscow to join the “responsible countries” and to fight together with common enemies and protect civilization.

The US president spoke of Russia during a press conference in Warsaw. Trump, answering the next question about Russia's interference in the American elections, noted that he personally considers such assumptions reasonable. At the same time, he noted that Russia could not be the only country trying to intervene in the elections, but no one really knows the truth.

Trump was criticized for refusing to honor the memory of the dead Jews. During a visit to Poland, the US president did not include in the program to visit the Memorial to the Holocaust. The leaders of the Jewish public organizations of Poland published a statement due to the absence of a visit to the monument to the Hero Ghetto's monument in the Trump program. It notes that Trump has become the first president of the United States since 1989, which did not attend the monument; Instead of Trump, the memory of the Holocaust victims honored his daughter Ivanka.

Pavel Borisov