When JD Vance was still a senator in January 2024, he deplored X: “Until recently, Poland had a conservative government. By using a lot of diplomatic and economic pressure, the Biden administration (and many European nations) attacked this government as an anti-democracy. … In the name of the protection of democracy, they use your taxes to attack a government which was a great ally of us. »»
A year later, when The new Ministry of Government efficiency Under the direction of Elon Musk began to audit the American agency for international development in January 2025, the things he exhibited sent shock waves worldwide. Revelations of millions of dollars in questionable subsidies – in particular funds to change the government of Poland – explained how the money from American taxpayers was at work in Warsaw.
Poland is A key ally of NATO And one of the geopolitical hot spots located between Germany and Russia. Internally, it has long been divided by a fight between a post-communist-liberal coalition and conservative transatlantic forces centered on the PIS Part (Law and Justice), which was ousted from power in 2023.
At that time, we already had possible interference indications Joe Biden Administration During the elections in 2023 in Poland. The USAID of Biden supported the anti-conservative coalition which assumed power in the fall of 2023 under Donald Tusk. According to the Polish website Money.PL, at least 27 Polish institutions have received money from the USAID in the past five years, mainly for left-wing propaganda and anti-PIS activities.
More recently than Wednesday, the authors Grzegorz Wierzcholowski and Maciej Kozuszek wrote in Gazeta Polska: “During the presidency of Joe Biden, millions of dollars of American taxpayers were sent to organizations in Poland.”
In December 2023, two Polish authors published the article “How to Dismantle an illiberal democracyIn the Journal of Democracy, maintained by the National Endowment for Democracy, a private foundation for granting subsidies in the United States.
The article was intended for a roadmap for the fight against conservative forces and presented Poland as a test field for radical solutions against the right: “Populism, however, prosperous today. If we leave his crimes without control and unpunished, people around the world can become even more jaded by politics. This makes events in Poland all the more important, “he said.
The authors, Karolina Wigura and Jaroslaw Kuisz, are the backbone of Polish magazine Kultura Liberalna (liberal culture), funded by the USAID.
Mike Benz, a former head of the US State Department, said the United States interference in Polish policy on “Joe Rogan experience”, declaring: “It did an excellent job to change the election. They create an ability to make black propaganda, economic sabotage and demolition. And the American people cannot discover it.
Interestingly, the most frequent American author of Kultura Liberalna was Anne Applebaum, wife of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski and co-author of Tusk’s book “The Choice”. The magazine published 12 interviews with her and has largely promoted her work.
Today, Tusk and Sikorski present themselves as political partners to trust for Donald Trump. In reality, they oppose the ideals, values and policies of the Trump administration concerning Poland, NATO and Europe.
During the 2023 parliamentary campaigns, Tusk called Trump as a Russian agent while Sikorski wrote on X: “Trump. The man from Putin to the White House. And Applebaum’s article on the American presidential campaign comparing Trump to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini completes the photo.
In 2021, Rafal Trzaskowski, mayor of Warsaw and widely considered as a “woke up” politician in Poland and now the presidential candidate of the Civic Platform, launched the Polska campus, an annual event which has become the largest anti-PIS rally in Poland. The tone of the event was exposed during its last edition in August, where a busy crowd, hosted by the current Minister of Sport Slawomir Nitras, cried: “F – Pis!” which has become the informal motto of the event.
Among the partners of the anti-conservative event were several non-governmental organizations supported by the USAID, notably the open company of George Soros, the youth network of European democracy, Kultura Liberalna, and the Marxist magazine Krytyka Polithzna (political critic).
Another example of direct interference in the Polish electoral campaign was the magazine Latarnik Wybrczy (electoral lighthouse), which did not simply manage the education of voters but pushed the process to left left parties. Today, we know that the election lighthouse has been funded by USAID and the German Fund Marshall.
USAID also supported the website of the electoral travel office, which encouraged a practice of “electoral tourism”. The strategy was intelligent: if the “good” group of voters voted in districts other than the place where they were initially recorded, this could stimulate the opposition anti-conservative candidates. This effort obtained a large media thrust suitable for opposition.
In addition, Biden’s United States Ambassador in Poland, Mark Brzezinski, has aligned himself with the post-communist-Liberal coalition, which was considered to approve of this change from the conservative PIS party, especially since the new left-wing government has taken authoritarian measures such as illegal takeover of public media.
The consequences of the Polish elections of 2023 reveal a dark image: conservative voices are faced with legal threats, signaling a style of post-Soviet governance on democratic flowering. An push for “awakened” ideologies comes up against the traditional common sense of Poland, eroding its cultural core. And the links of the new government with Russia and China raise red flags on national security, referring to a passage from the historical position of Poland against communism.
The intervention of the Elections of Poland did not aim to promote democracy but to reshape the Polish society in accordance with the liberal American establishment.
The American Democrats greatly took advantage of it: they won an ally subject to NATO to counter the influence of Trump, they weaken conservative forces across Europe, and they probably facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in climatic and technological contracts in Poland for American societies respectful of the Democrats.
While fundraising projects of 369 billion dollars in the reduction of inflation of the United States in the United States, it stimulated American own technology companies, such as Nextee will Energy, General Motors and Albemarle Corporation, which gave more than $ 4 million to democrats in 2024-to invest in the transition of green energy, stimulating funds Democrats and political agendas before the 2024 US elections.
While questions about the legitimacy of the current government of Warsaw remain open, the new US administration is expected to investigate the reversal of the most pro-American ally in Europe.
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