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According to former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Polish President Andrzej Duda was looking for an excuse to create a high-profile political scandal, and he found it. Nevertheless, the diplomat is convinced that even this conflict can be smoothed over.
Key points:
- According to Kuleba, Duda cornered himself.
- He also emphasized that Zelensky was making the right decisions in this situation.
Kuleba explained Duda’s logic
As the diplomat noted, when the Polish President announced the initiative to strip Zelensky of the order, he maximally narrowed his room for maneuver.
Since he is a “symbol of masculinity” in Poland, he could no longer back down and show weakness.
The first thing he should have done was not to put forward such an initiative, not to corner himself, but to find another way if he wanted to express his disagreement. For example, to demand that the Tusk government recall the Polish ambassador to Ukraine for consultations. In diplomacy, this is an extremely strong gesture. And in this way, he would also have cornered Tusk, because if Tusk had refused, he would have looked weak.
Dmytro Kuleba
Former Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
However, the Polish President was not going to resolve this issue through normal diplomatic channels.
Duda needed a political scandal understandable to the average voter. What is recalling an ambassador for consultations? An ordinary person simply doesn’t understand that. But taking away the highest order – a person understands that. That’s what Duda was looking for, Kuleba explained.
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