Thursday media review; Si vis pacem para bellum; Pentagon head sets Poland as a model

**Eugenius Smolar: Gazeta Wyborcza:“Poland between Brussels and Washington”**
"U.S. soy within NATO is 1 of the pillars of our security. EU membership is simply a second pillar. Until now, we didn't gotta lay around between them. Donald Trump can change that. The origin of threats and uncertainty for Poland and the full European Union is not only Russian aggression against Ukraine, but besides Trump's return to power and his declared intentions to free the US from alliances on which, he claims, America was only losing. The president besides refers to bare force against NATO allies specified as Canada, Denmark and the European Union. For Poland, with its history, it is dangerous that Trump legitimizes akin ambitions of Russia or China with territorial claims and public threats, replaces the power policy and possible performance of the powers after the war with a safety strategy based on alliance commitments, institutions, common values and interests and global law, weakening the influences of the US and the West, which strengthens enemies.”