Poland angry over Kyiv's sense of entitlement: Zelenskyy urges calm

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to call for calm late Tuesday as tempers soared between diplomats from his country and Poland. 

On Tuesday, Kyiv summoned Warsaw's envoy following a top Polish official openly complaining that Ukraine needs to be more appreciative of the help Poland has given them after Russia's invasion last year. This was a similar complaint many American conservatives and perhaps a few liberals had with Ukraine and Zelenskyy. It seemed to many Americans that he was expecting us to do more in his war effort and this notion wasn't lost on Poland's envoy.

“We greatly appreciate the historical support of Poland, which together with us has become a real shield of Europe from sea to sea. And there cannot be a single crack in this shield,” Zelenskyy said. “We will not allow any political instants to spoil the relations between the Ukrainian and Polish peoples, and emotions should definitely cool down.” 

Poland has been one of Ukraine's greatest supporters after Russia's aggressive actions increased last year. However, more recently, Poland's relations with Kyiv have deteriorated by Warsaw's decision to extend a ban on some Ukrainian agricultural exports because they viewed this as a threat to the interests of their farmers.

The initial ban was mainly on grain, but is now shifting to soft fruit. Poland's farmers happen to be a key constituency in the upcoming Polish general elections, and nothing is more important to politicians, be they from Poland or the United States, than getting reelected. The low-price Ukrainian imports are hurting Polish farmers and politicians suddenly care.

The brewing disputes escalated Tuesday after Ukraine summoned the Polish ambassador to Kyiv over “unacceptable” comments made by a senior Polish official.

Marcin Przydacz [pronounced "Prrzzdaczrpzz"] head of Poland's international policy office said Kyiv ought to “start appreciating the role Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years”  causing Ukrainian heads to explode to the point they hauled in Warsaw's ambassador and prompted Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to hit back at Ukraine.

“The summoning of the Polish ambassador — a representative of the country that was the only one left in Kyiv on the day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — to the Ukrainian foreign ministry should never have happened,” Morawiecki said.

“Given the enormity of the support Poland has given Ukraine, such mistakes should not happen,” the prime minister added, verbally flipping ungrateful Ukraine the "bird."

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PINO Biden grabs a slice of pizza before the troops are fed

PINO Joe Biden was in Warsaw, Poland Friday where he met with US troops of the 82nd Airborne and told them they will be going to Ukraine because Biden is an idiot and says things before engaging his two remaining brain cells. Then he sat down with them and before they were served, he began trying to chow down on a slice of pizza topped with jalapeño peppers. 

As Commander in Chief, he must have been starving because normally, officers eat only after their men are served. Biden couldn't wait and he ate his slice like his life depended on the sustenance.

“We’re based on an idea,” Biden told the men. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all women and men are created equal. Sounds corny, but it’s the truth of who we are. We’ve never lived up to it, but we never walked away from it.”

That sounds corny? The Declaration of Independence sounds corny to a guy who can't string a complete sentence together without sounding like a mumbling, bumbling nursing home patient? He speaks about our founding document so dismissively? 

He is clearly cognitively in decline, was never bright when he wasn't, and he should be impeached or resign the presidency and allow his incompetent vice president Kamala Hahaharris to run the nation into the ground.

After Biden ate pizza with the soldiers, he met with Polish President Andrezj Duda. As our PINO spoke, he coughed into his hand and took a sip of his drink, turned to Duda and said, “I was visiting our troops and I had pizza pie with hot peppers on it, oh the dudah day.”

Pete Hegseth of Fox News was as pissed off as this writer and his guest, Charlie Hurt, spoke of Biden's rhetoric about the Declaration of Independence. 

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“He says it in a room full of men and women, probably, who have sworn, who’ve signed up and sworn to give their lives not only for their fellow man beside them, but for that corny document,” Hurt said. “And they would walk into any fire to give up their life for that document. And to have this horse’s ass up there, their commander-in-chief, and I hate talking like this because he’s still the commander-in-chief. And out of respect to those men in that room, you know, you hate to drag the guy, but he shouldn’t be there. He needs to be taken away.”

Hurt added, “He is not fit for this.”

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Trump scolds Russia prior to Putin meeting but Dems aren't satisfied

If President Trump found a cure for cancer the Democrats would blame him for putting oncology physicians out of work. 

Trump called for Moscow to stop fanning the flames of global unrest as he is meeting with Vladimir Putin at the G20 as I write this, while yesterday, the Democrats criticized him for "casting doubt" at a press conference as to whether Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

The President has often said he'd like us to get along with Russia and this has become fodder for the Dems who allege collusion with Moscow. 

To the Dems, this is worse than Obama's open mike with Russian President Medvedev when Obama told him that he would have 'more flexibility' after the 2012 election.

To the Dems, this is worse than Hillary Clinton selling 20 percent of the world's uranium to Russia.

President Trump's Warsaw speech openly criticized Russia's global policies.

"We urge Russia to cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes including Syria and Iran, and to join the community of responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in defense of civilization itself," Trump said.

But in a joint press conference with Poland's President Duda, Trump wasn't very critical of Russia's apparent meddling in the U.S. election.

"I think it was Russia, and I think it could have been other people in other countries--I don't want to be specific," Trump said. "I think Russia probably, and other people and other countries, nobody really knows, nobody knows for sure," he said inelegantly. 

Trump then added: "Remember Iraq weapons of mass destruction? Everyone was one hundred percent sure Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; guess what--they were wrong and it led to a mess--it was Russia, but others also."

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee charged with investigating the alleged Russian election meddling and possible collusion with Trump campaign associates, dissed Trump on Twitter for his response.

"America last. @POTUS already capitulates to Putin." Schiff tweeted sans exclamation point.

"This is not putting America first, but continuing to propagate his own personal fiction at the country's expense," Schiff said, and urged Trump to "have the courage" to raise with Putin, the issue of Russian interference in the election--as if Putin would 'fess up' about Russia's meddling. "Otherwise the Kremlin will conclude he is too weak to stand up to them. That would be a historic mistake, with damaging implications for our foreign policy for years to come," Schiff asserted.

Schiff apparently forgot that Obama knew of Russia's meddling and did nothing about it--but Trump didn't forget and mentioned it yesterday.

"I think he thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election and let's not do anything about it," Trump said of failed President Obama. "He was told by the CIA that Russia was trying to get involved. He did nothing about it. People said he choked--I don't think he choked," Trump said, making reference to a sports term meaning that Obama had the chance to make America great again but froze. 

Trump evidently believes he didn't freeze but did it intentionally to keep America status quo and not so great.

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