[NYPOST] Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe's leaders the way Donald Trump
 ...Oh, noze! Not him!...
does, but he too has a tough message for them.
''Hear for yourself how it sounds,'' he said last month: ''500 million Europeans begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians.''
''If you can count, count on yourself,'' Tusk continued. ''Not in isolation, but with full awareness of your potential. Today, in Europe, we do not lack economic strength, people, but the belief that we are a global power.''
Decline is a choice — and for 30 years now, decline is what Europe's political class has chosen.
Poland, like Ukraine, has always been alert to the danger Russia poses.
But Western European leaders can't claim Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
surprised them with his full-on invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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