Wałęsa And Former Political Prisoners Write Letter To Trump

They recalled the commitments of the Budapest Memorandum.

Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa signed a letter to US President Donald Trump, expressing “horror and disgust” over the latter’s dispute with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. Wałęsa signed the letter along with other former Polish political prisoners, according to his message published on Facebook.

“The history of the 20th century shows that every time the United States wanted to keep its distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended up being a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided that the United States would enter the world war in 1917. President Franklin Roosevelt understood this when he decided after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 that the war to defend America would be waged not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the countries that the Third Reich had attacked,” the letter says.

Lech Wałęsa and a number of former Polish political prisoners note that material aid – military and financial – cannot be “the equivalent of the blood shed in the name of independence and freedom for Ukraine, Europe and the entire free world.”

“Human life is priceless, its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude to those who sacrifice blood and freedom. For us, the people of Solidarity, former political prisoners of the communist regime, this is obvious,” the authors of the letter note, calling on the United States to fulfill the guarantees it gave together with Great Britain in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which clearly spelled out the obligation to protect the inviolability of Ukraine’s borders in exchange for the renunciation of nuclear weapons – “these guarantees are unconditional: there is not a word about interpreting such assistance as economic.”

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