Marathon Pundit: Obama's legacy: Polish foreign minister calls USA alliance worthless

On September 17, 2009, in a move to placate Russia, President Obama cancelled a missile defense shield for Poland and the Czech Republic. It was an ominous day in history--the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.

So it's not surprising that the foreign minister of Poland views its alliance with the United States as useless.

From AP:

A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a private conversation in which the foreign minister says Poland's strong alliance with the U.S. was worthless and "even harmful because it creates a false sense of security."

In a short transcript of the conversation, a person identified as Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski also allegedly criticized Poles as naive in a conversation with a former finance minister — in the latest recorded revelation from magazine Wprost to rattle Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government.

The Foreign Ministry declined comment, but did not deny that Sikorski made the remarks. Government spokeswoman Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska said officials would only comment after the recording is published in full.

Sikorski used to be a strong supporter of America.

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But he has become more critical of Washington in recent years, especially after President Barack Obama's attempted "reset" of ties with Russia in 2009 and the subsequent scaling-down of the U.S. missile defense plan for Poland and other parts of eastern Europe. Amid recent violence in Ukraine, Sikorski has been calling for a substantial U.S. troop presence on Polish soil.

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