Ukraine aid
Tusk criticizes US Republicans: “Shame on you”
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk reacts angrily to the failed aid to Ukraine. photo
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A draft bill for Ukraine aid failed in the US Senate after Trump voiced opposition to it. This is causing anger for Poland’s head of government. Reagan would turn in his grave, he says.
After the bill failed in the US Senate, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for more Republicans criticized Ukraine aid.
“Dear Republican Senators of America. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us regain our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you,” wrote Tusk on the social network X (formerly Twitter), referring to 2004 late 40th US President of the Republican Party.
In a vote in the House chamber on Wednesday, Republicans blocked a bill presented by US President Joe Biden’s Democrats that provided for a billion-dollar aid package for Ukraine, which was attacked by Russia. This meant that the legislative package that had been negotiated across parties for weeks, which also included aid for Israel and stricter regulations in immigration policy, failed. Former US President Donald Trump had previously voiced opposition to the agreement.
Reagan (1911-2004) served as US President from 1981 to 1989 and, with his then controversial policy of rearmament and anti-communist stance, made a decisive contribution to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Poland, the republican, who was rejected as a “cold warrior” in many Western societies, has many admirers – there is even a monument to him in Warsaw.