Solemn Commemoration of the Polish ‘Cursed’ Soldiers – National Remembrance Day in NJ and PA
On February 28th, on the eve of the ‘Cursed’ Soldiers National Remembrance Day, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania a wreath laying ceremony took place in remembrance of the Polish freedom fighters who continued their struggle for independent Poland after WWII by resisting the communist dictatorship. The ceremony was held at the Polish Doomed Soldiers Monument in American Czestochowa. The Coalition of Polish Americans was represented by Dr. Stanislaw Sliwowski, the President of CPA.
Joe Biden declares Poland as “totalitarian regime”: inquiry with DNC
Presidential candidate Joe Biden declared Polish government as “totalitarian regime”: inquiry with DNC’s Chair Tom Perez
Why Polish-Americans should vote for President Donald Trump
By Dr. Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon, Co-Chair Polish-Americans for Trump Advisory Board
During his four years in office, President Donald Trump has been a strong and effective leader both in domestic and international politics. He fulfilled the promises of his 2016 presidential campaign in reordering American policies to benefit to a greater extent American citizens and their key concerns.
For Polish Americans, President Trump carried out his promises to establish a strong security relationship with Poland within NATO, based on a 200 year friendship between the two countries. President Trump signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the Polish government, which provides for the transfer of the US Army Command Headquarters to Poland to defend the eastern flank of NATO from Russian aggression and to establish a legal basis for the presence of US troops in Poland. He fundamentally shifted NATO emphasis to its eastern flank where threats are greatest instead of maintaining a status quo of the traditional Washington elite.
He supports energy independence for Central and Eastern Europe through his endorsement of the Three Seas Initiative, a one billion dollar investment in the independent pipeline system, the sale of US shale gas LNG, and sanctions on the German-Russian pipeline Nordstream 2. Poland also signed a new agreement with the United States on nuclear energy cooperation.
President Trump included Poland in the Visa Waiver program, which many US presidents promised but none delivered. This was important for Polish Americans for both symbolic and practical reasons.
Under President Trump, Poland has a strong, special relationship with the United States. We can look forward to its further growth in areas of national security, energy, economics, business and scientific cooperation.
Joe Biden wants to seriously downgrade the US relationship with Poland to what it was under President Obama, put emphasis on relations with Germany and Brussels, and end fracking in the United States, which will strongly impact US-Poland energy cooperation. Obama’s policies toward Poland were regarded as a disaster and we cannot return to them.
Joe Biden exhibits the same patronizing attitude toward Poland and Polish Americans as President Obama. He said in a New York Times interview that he and the Democratic Party stopped going to the Polish American clubs, and started building a new coalition of “really smart people” made up of college graduates and the New York Times. Thus, the Democratic Party left the Polish Americans and other middle class voters behind to embrace fashionable progressive orthodoxy.
These progressive attitudes and policies apply to Poland just as they did during the Obama years, which consisted of constant lecturing and accusations. Just as now when Joe Biden categorizes Poland, a member of NATO and the European Union, to be in the same category as Byelorussia, an authoritarian country largely under the control of Russia, and other totalitarian states. Since Poland does not endorse progressive values, it can expect constant grilling from the Biden administration in alliance with progressives from the European Union.
In the United States, President Trump’s policies constitute a defense of the middle class to which Polish Americans belong. He pursued economic growth policies, created millions of jobs, lowered taxes, supported US energy independence and limited illegal immigration, which is a great burden on US citizens from many points of view.
President Trump has strong relations with Polish Americans and with Poland. Poland became a strategic partner of the United States in assuring security of the Western alliance. This development also creates beneficial conditions for future cooperation.
Polish-Americans contributed greatly to this strategic understanding by our strong support of President Donald Trump and his policies and we want a further development of this special relationship. President Trump fulfilled important promises to the Polish-American community and we are working to assure his reelection and to build on these successes during the next four years.
The real meaning of NATO
by Dr. Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon
The Biden campaign Central European Coalition attacked President Trump for supposedly damaging NATO by threatening withdrawal, alienation of NATO allies and emboldening Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Biden claims that this endangers freedom in Central Europe and is at stake in this election.
Joe Biden presents himself as “a proven champion of NATO and its security role in central and eastern Europe.” As an example, he claims that in 1998 “he led the successful Senate fight to expand NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic,” and later others. However, according to The Hill, in 1998, the Democrats were in a minority, therefore, Biden was not a leader in this fight.
And what did he do for Central Europe in the last 22 years?
The record is non-existent but the Obama Administration where he was the vice-president instituted a Russia reset policy right after its inauguration. Considering that it was in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Georgia, it amounted to an appeasement of Russian aggression. In 2009, Obama and Biden cancelled the missile defense agreement right on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, sparking outrage. In 2011, they shepherded Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, NATO was in its weakest state since the early 1990’s and there were no defense plans for Central Europe. Only three months before its end, the Obama Administration made a decision to build deterrence. To top it off, during the 2016 campaign, former President Bill Clinton denounced Poland as ‘preferring Putin.’ In short, the Obama-Biden Administration was a total disaster for Central Europe.
Significantly, this manifesto is signed by not that many Americans of Central European descent but by former US career ambassadors to Central European countries. Thus, it represents not a view from Central Europe but a view of the Washington foreign policy establishment. The same establishment that so deeply failed Central and Eastern Europe and Americans who care about this area. Central Europeans learned to treat the Washington establishment with skepticism. They overwhelmingly supported President Trump in the 2016 election and they were not disappointed.
In the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump criticized NATO alliance as weak and out of date. Not only its defense capabilities were allowed to seriously deteriorate but its financial burden was placed overwhelmingly on the United States. Its beneficiaries were wealthy West European countries, particularly Germany, who did not pay the agreed to 2 percent of GDP for their own defense. Another major issue was that even though Central European countries became members of NATO, in practice their military status did not change. They were not integrated into NATO military plans or deployments.
This criticism was interpreted by the Washington foreign policy elite to mean the intention to destroy NATO but Donald Trump did not want a destruction but a modernization of NATO in military, technological and economic terms. He simply recognized the new geopolitical environment, which was ignored by the Washington elite for too long.
The last four years demonstrated that President Trump was instrumental in the reform and modernization of NATO in numerous dimensions.
The key achievement is that President Trump goaded other NATO allies to significantly increase their defense spending. In his GOP Convention speech, President Trump said that by the end of 2020, NATO defense spending increased by $130 billion a year and by the end of 2024, it will increase by $400 billion a year. This is very important because numerous US Presidents tried to do it previously with no results.
Second, these funds are being deployed for modernization of NATO in terms of updated technologies, increased mobility, and improved logistics, infrastructure, cybersecurity, space security and disinformation warfare.
Third, In view of Russian aggression in Georgia and Ukraine, Central European members of NATO felt very insecure and exposed. They demanded that NATO military infrastructure and troops be placed closer to new threats on the eastern flank of NATO, not in traditional countries in the West.
In response, the Trump Administration utilized all possibilities to beef up NATO defenses in Central Europe under current political framework, which only allowed temporary presence of US forces.
Significantly on 15th of August 2020, the Trump Administration signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with Poland, which defines the legal framework, infrastructure needs and financial arrangements for military collaboration. It is similar to the other defense cooperation agreements with NATO countries, thus placing Poland on an equal legal basis.
Most importantly, it establishes a command headquarters for defense of the whole eastern flank of NATO in western Poland.
It also provides a legal framework for stationing of US troops in Poland, which currently number 5500, and development of military infrastructure, which will allow further increases in the future. President Trump already announced that some US troops withdrawn from Germany will be moved to Central Europe but it is unlikely under the Biden Administration.
In his appeal to Central European voters, Joe Biden claims that “threatening NATO threatens American values and interests.” He is wrong. It is letting NATO deteriorate financially and militarily, being passive in face of Russian aggression, supporting weak status quo in face of changing geopolitical and economic conditions; this is what threatens American values and interests. And this old status quo is Joe Biden’s position.
Central Europeans place high value on transatlantic relations to provide real security for Europe in a volatile and uncertain world: that is why they want Donald Trump to win. They appreciate the long-overdue correction in the US geopolitical stance.
By modernizing NATO and strengthening its eastern flank, President Trump did more to protect freedom in Central and Eastern Europe and to deter Vladimir Putin than any other US president since Ronald Reagan.
Biden’s Foot-in-the-Mouth Disease
By Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Friday, 23 October 2020
(https://www.newsmax.com/marekjanchodakiewicz/poland-hungary-belarus-minorities/2020/10/23/id/993435/)
Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s adventures and misadventures with the truth verge from comic to vicious. Recently, he slanderously compared Poland and Hungary to Belarus and other “totalitarianisms.” In a separate case he flippantly contrasted “the ‘really smart’ people” with Americans of Polish, Greek, and African descent.
Both cases upset the Polish and Hungarian diaspora in the U.S. to reverberate through the Intermarium, Poland and Hungary in particular. Next, the scandals boomeranged back to these teeming shores through the internet’s ethnic echo chamber. This is quite a ruckus, playing out almost entirely outside of mainstream corporate media. It is worth exploring, if only to show how the interconnectedness of our global world influences America’s presidential elections.
Joe Biden’s track record with the truth goes far beyond the standard Washington, D.C., test: “How can you tell that a politician is lying?” “His lips are moving.” Let’s be fair, however, and delve into loose lips Joe’s modus operandi. It is predicated on a perpetual self-aggrandizement drive and a Pavlovian reflex to be au courant with whatever sexy spirit of the times spews from corporate media.
Beyond any doubt in his 50-plus years in politics Joe Biden has kept some unsavory company. That included assorted bigots and racists, including KKK members whose funerals the Democratic politician attended, eulogizing them, well into the 21st century. Somehow his supporters and corporate media overlook this.
This is important and relevant in the context of the controversy of contrasting “the ‘really smart’ people,” in this particular instance the editorial board of the New York Times, with three of our national minority groups: African Americans, Greek Americans, and Polish Americans. Upon investigation, we must conclude that in this instance Biden was not racist, but simply awkward. He wanted to admonish his fellow Democrats for neglecting the blue collar grass roots.
Still, it came across as condescending to others to exclude these minorities from the ranks of “the ‘really smart’ people.” Biden must have not remembered late Bill Buckley Jr.’s quip that the later would rather be ruled by the first 500 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. Buckley meant that the common folk, including Americans of African, Greek, and Polish descent. have much more common sense and true grit necessary for wielding power than most egg heads, including the editors of The New York Times – especially them!
On the other hand, as far as Poland and Hungary, Biden’s foray into foreign policy and comparative totalitarianism was simply ignorant and vicious. He said: “You see what is happening from Belarus through Poland and Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world. Our current president supports all thugs in the world.” Biden’s statement reflects precisely the sentiment mendaciously purveyed by corporate media and Big Tech. Accusations of “fascism” against Warsaw and Budapest are the norm.
Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon, who co-chairs Polish Americans for Trump, will have none of this. “Poland and Hungary are countries that are members of NATO and the European Union that have fully functioning democracies. Byelorussia is a dictatorship, largely under the control of Russia. Poland was the leader in the fight for freedom from communism with its revolutionary trade union Solidarity and it is a leader now in the Western assistance for the Byelorussian workers who want to make their own country Byelorussia more like Poland, a country of freedom and democracy.”
Debunking an identical contemporaneous smear David P. Goldman — aka “Spengler” —insists that: “Half a century of Nazi and Communist occupation nearly crushed the spirit of the nations of Eastern Europe; a decade ago they approached the point of no return for demographic extinction. The new nationalists who now govern Hungary and Poland…have rebuilt vibrant economies, raised birth rates, and established viable democracies out of nearly-ruined Soviet colonies. Despite their missteps — which are frequent and sometimes grave — they have restored hope for the future to lands which not long ago seemed like a cemetery of the human spirit.”
Poland and Hungary represent “nationalism that embraces Western civilization, religion, and family as the foundation of national life. They look to the United States for leadership and, in many cases, to Israel for inspiration. For all their failings, they offer a hope for national revival.” And then Goldman adds: “To claim that the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels are champions of democracy against the elected governments of “illiberal” Poland or Hungary is chutzpah.”
One would like to send Joe Biden back to college, but one is afraid he would emerge even more woke and ignorant than he already is. Further, one wonders whether all this will amount to Biden’s Gerald Ford moment. Running for President in 1976, Ford gleefully blurted out that Poland – a nation under Soviet occupation since 1944 – was “a free country.” He lost the Polish-American vote; he lost the election. As we see, foot-in-the-mouth disease is a bi-partisan affliction. And it may have dire consequences in November.
Marek Jan Chodakiewicz is Professor of History at the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of statecraft in Washington D.C.; expert on East-Central Europe’s Three Seas region; author, among others, of “Intermarium: The Land Between The Baltic and Black Seas.” Read Marek Jan Chodakiewicz’s Reports — More Here.
CPA proposes ideas of two National Monuments to President Trump
CPA sent two documents to the President Trump’s campaign to propose creation of two objects in the State of Illinois: 1) The Crenshaw House, a site recognized by the National Park Service as a historic site of the Reverse Underground Railroad, where slaves who escaped to the North were captured and sent back to the South, and 2) The Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge, a structure dedicated to US veterans who fought in WWI and WWII, which is also the oldest suspension bridge over the Mississippi River. The bridge was created by Polish American engineer, Ralph Modjeski, who also created the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, CA, and the George Washington Bridge in New York.
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Polish Americans for Trump
The November 3rd Election Day is fast approaching. This will be an extremely important decision. Make no mistake about it: we are in the midst of a raging and rapidly intensifying culture war: traditional Western Civilization against decay, anarchy and chaos, traditional values against ideological terror, law and order against mob rule, culture against anti-culture, modern capitalism against neo-Marxism.
This election is not necessarily about for WHOM we vote, but rather for WHAT we vote. Looking at the political landscape in the USA today, we can build quite a clear picture. Voting for Democrats would mean supporting anti-values, chaos, anti-culture and Marxism. Those of us who emigrated to this country from Communist Poland still remember the realities of the Communist system. We ought to ask ourselves: did we leave Poland, only to install that inhuman system here, in America, a few decades later and by our own wish?
American politicians and observers broadly agree that based on statistics and analyses, Polish Americans have greatly helped Donald Trump win the election four years ago. To their surprise, because that reversed the earlier common misconception that there are few Polish Americans who vote, and those who do, usually vote for Democrats. Because of this new finding, they took on a new interest in our ethnic group.
Polish Americans for Trump is an organization which helps us organize, in cooperation with the President Trump’s campaign machine. The Michigan “kick-off”, a few days ago, is an example of their activity, but much more is coming. Please be invited to visit here for more information as events develop.
And, of course, those who have not yet registered for the elections, please make sure that you do. The deadline for registration varies depending on your location, so make sure to check the date and do it in time! Opting for (and demanding where necessary) in-person voting at polling stations, instead of voting by mail, will reduce chances for voting fraud.
Polish-American voters are key to re-electing President Trump
By William Ciosek, AMERICAN THINKER
Polish-American voters were key to helping President Trump win the White House in 2016.
Polish-Americans make up approximately 10% of the populations of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and vote larger than their numbers, accounting for almost 15% of the total vote in those states.
President Trump flipped those three normally Democrat states in 2016, winning all of them by less than 1% of the vote. He won an estimated 70 to 75% of the Polish-American vote in 2016. Without those votes, he would not have won those three states critical to his election.
A massive Polish-American vote in 2020 with more than 70% voting for President Trump will enable him to win these three essential states again and return to the White House for a second term.
Polish-American voters will also be essential for any chance Trump has to win the states of Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, and possibly even Illinois. Polish-American voters make up more than 7% of the population of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois and 4% of Florida.
Polish-American voters, in addition, make up more than 7% of the population of New York State. President Trump has an outside chance of winning the State of New York because of the outrage many New Yorkers feel about the incompetence, left-wing extremism, and oppressive lockdown restrictions of New York’s governor and New York City’s mayor. Polish-American voters are key to any possible Trump upset in New York.
Further, Polish-American voters constitute approximately 4% of the swing-state populations of Minnesota, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. They can make the difference for Trump-Pence in 2020.
Polish-American voters have every reason to vote in even greater numbers and percentages for President Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016.
Donald Trump has proven himself to be a historic president as regards Poland’s relationship with America and the interests of Polish-Americans.
President Trump’s rousing speech in Warsaw in July 2017 was the greatest defense of Western civilization and the most resounding statement of Poland’s historic role in the defense of freedom ever made by a world leader.
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan in alliance with Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher helped inspire the Polish people to bring down the Iron Curtain and free Poland and all of Eastern Europe from the oppression and destitution of communism. President Trump has augmented Reagan’s actions by making America Poland’s foremost ally and joining with Warsaw in an alliance against globalism and the consequent loss of national sovereignty.
In the 2016 campaign, President Trump won the attention and respect of more than 10 million Polish-American voters by personally meeting with more than 100 Polish-American civic leaders at the Polish National Alliance headquarters in Chicago on September 25, 2016.
That three-hour give-and-take captured the attention of Polish-Americans and won their respect. It received massive media attention in Polish-American media and in Poland itself. It triggered an enormous turnout of Polish-Americans, and as much as 75% of their votes went to Donald Trump.
Our organization, Polish Americans for Trump, is now actively organizing a new major give-and-take meeting between President Trump and leaders of the Polish-American community. One of the three battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan will likely be the venue for the upcoming event.
Polish-Americans are predominantly Catholic and one of the strongest pro-life ethnic coalitions in the U.S. President Trump has become the greatest pro-life president in recent American history and is fighting relentlessly to defend the rights of the unborn.
Polish Americans for Trump proudly honors the gallantry of Count Casimir Pulaski, “Father of the American Cavalry,” and Tadeusz Kosciuszko, architect of the American defenses at West Point and Saratoga, both of whom contributed mightily to our victory in the Revolutionary War. Pulaski was mortally wounded leading a cavalry charge during the Battle of Savannah.
On August 15 of this year, Poland and America commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the historic 1920 Battle of Warsaw, Poland’s decisive victory in its war with Bolshevik Russia. With the help of the Kosciuszko Squadron, volunteer American fighter pilots repaying our Revolutionary War debt to Kosciuszko and Pulaski, the depleted Polish army smashed the Bolsheviks at the gates of Warsaw and saved Europe from a Marxist onslaught.
Polish-Americans well know the deprivation, oppression, and thuggery of Marxism, either having experienced it firsthand or through the experiences of family members. We know that Polish-Americans can help defeat the current domestic surge of Marxist revolutionaries by turning out in record numbers again and voting for freedom, liberty, Western civilization, the American Constitution and way of life, and President Trump.
William Ciosek is co-chair of Polish Americans for Trump, a founding member of the Foundation to Illuminate America’s Heroes, co-founder of Genesis Productions, and co-producer of a major motion picture being developed about the Kosciuszko Squadron. To learn more, please visit www.illuminateamericasheroes.com.
Poland’s Geopolitical Future and America’s Role In It
The greatest significance of the recent victory of President Andrzej Duda of Poland in the presidential election over his liberal and pro-German opponent is international, not domestic. Poland is where the clash of geopolitical futures is occurring right now among the top world powers.
Russia dominated Poland until the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and it is trying to preserve remnants of its influence. Germany acquired a position of dominance in the early 1990s. It made many business investments in Poland to produce inputs for German industry, and 28 percent of Polish trade is with Germany. It also invested in the politics of Poland with numerous grants to Polish organizations, scholarships, and cultural programs. This symbiosis was agreeable to both countries and peaked with Poland’s 2004 admittance to the European Union. It was a great boon to Poland’s economic development but now the EU increasingly is regarded as a heavy-handed tool of Germany.
The biggest disagreement between Poland and Germany concerns Russia. This conflict demonstrates itself in numerous issues such as NATO, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and many others. Poland pays its 2 percent of GDP NATO requirement, loves America, and is positive about the presence of U.S. troops, while Germany spends little on defense, has an army that is far from fighting status, and fosters anti-Americanism. Germany is constructing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to become a distribution hub of Russian natural gas in Europe, which will increase its vulnerability to Russian blackmail. Poland is constructing pipelines and LNG terminals within the Three Seas Initiative to free Eastern Europe of the Russian natural gas monopoly and to import it from elsewhere, mainly the United States.
Polish people also remember the 1981 German support for the imposition of martial law in Poland and its lack of contribution to overcoming communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
All this was tolerable until Russia invaded Ukraine and the Law and Justice Party won the parliamentary election in 2015. Poland felt very insecure and demanded that NATO establish a real presence in Eastern Europe—not just a formal membership—and resolutely oppose Russian machinations on its western borders. In view of the German attitude toward Russia, the Polish government turned to the United States, especially after the election of Donald Trump as president.
During his term in office, Trump significantly strengthened NATO, opposed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and endorsed the Three Seas Initiative to build infrastructure in Eastern Europe. He also supported including Poland in the Visa Waiver Program to allow Poles to visit and do business in the United States. Currently, the Polish government is negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement and terms of transfer of some U.S. troops from Germany to Poland.
The reelection of President Duda allows the continuation of a generally strong Polish-U.S. relationship, strengthening of the Western alliance and building up Eastern Europe as an independent entity between Germany and Russia.
This does not fit well with German designs and Germany does not consider the matter closed. Though Germany is disappointed that the pro-German opposition candidate did not win the presidency, despite the subtle assistance provided to him (German corporations own 80 percent of Polish local press, and other media outlets), they are not giving up on other possibilities of influence. The first question they asked after the election is whether President Duda will remain aligned with the Law and Justice government and its policies.
A few years ago, precisely after 45 minutes of telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Duda vetoed key government legislation on judicial reform. Obviously, he could be persuaded again to undercut the Polish government agenda. Further, after his last term in office, he might desire to have a career in the European Union institutions and only Germany can assure him of that, just as they appointed former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to high-level EU jobs.
Another avenue for German influence is the recent appointment of a new German ambassador to Poland who is a former deputy chief of the BND, Germany’s intelligence service, and former head of NATO intelligence. His father was a Wehrmacht officer during World War II who served on the Eastern front in Poland and Russia and was airlifted out of the siege of Stalingrad to become an officer in Hitler’s command headquarters. One would think this appointment might seem a bit insensitive to the Poles. The appointment of such a high-level official from intelligence services shows Germany means business.
Thus, the reelection of President Duda is a vote for a close relationship with the United States and the strengthening of NATO, as well as national and regional independence. But will it stay this way? Germany and Russia will do everything they can to overturn the existing pro-American balance of power. Is the United States ready to confront that?
CPA recommends Gen. Ryszard Jerzy Kukliński for the National Garden of American Heroes
Dear Director Laudner,
We are writing to request your support for inclusion of General Ryszard Jerzy Kuklinski in the National Garden of American Heroes.