Dear Poland, You Have a Traitor in Your Midst: Karol Nawrocki
- john raymond
- Sep 3
- 3 min read
Poland stands at the edge of history. Your great nation has long been the strongest sentinel against Russian aggression, the iron gate through which the Kremlin cannot pass without consequence. For years, you have been Ukraine’s indispensable ally, NATO’s anchor on the eastern flank, and Europe’s clearest voice of moral clarity.
Yet in September 2025, your newly inaugurated president, Karol Nawrocki, chose to squander that inheritance. He flew not to Kyiv but to Washington, not to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy but to stage himself beside Donald Trump—a man compromised, aligned with Moscow’s interests, and utterly incapable of delivering anything but deception.
This choice is not a matter of diplomatic nuance. It is betrayal.
A Man Who Put Himself Before Poland
Nawrocki arrived in office with an internal fight against Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and his White House trip was nakedly designed to assert himself as the true conductor of Polish foreign policy. That he excluded government officials from his delegation tells you everything. He was not traveling as the head of a united Poland. He was traveling as Karol Nawrocki, the man eager to claim prominence by showing proximity to the American president who had endorsed him.
But what kind of president is Trump? He is a man who brands the Epstein case a “hoax,” who slanders victims of sex trafficking, who calls transparency an “act of war” against his own government. He is a man who boasts of “ending seven wars” while excusing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. To sit beside him and lend legitimacy to such poison is to import corruption back into Warsaw.
Zelenskyy Snubbed, Poland Weakened
The order of Nawrocki’s diplomacy speaks louder than any prepared statement. Kyiv is the hinge of Poland’s survival. If Ukraine falls, Poland is next. Zelenskyy’s resistance is the shield behind which Warsaw breathes freely. For Nawrocki to meet a feckless liar like Trump first, and to attack Zelenskyy in his rhetoric, is proof enough of his priorities: self-promotion over national security.
In Raymond Method terms, this is Pillar One inverted. National security demands that a leader subordinate himself to the survival of the state and its people. Instead Nawrocki has subordinated the state and its people to the survival of his own political ego.
A Traitor’s Logic
A traitor is not always defined by receiving Moscow’s rubles or signing decrees in secret. A traitor is also the man who divides his country in the face of mortal danger, who undermines true allies, who legitimizes compromised powers and in so doing hands the enemy an opening. Nawrocki’s behavior in Washington—embracing Trump, sidelining Tusk, snubbing Zelenskyy—is traitorous conduct. It is the conduct of a man who cares for his own prominence more than Poland’s security.
Poland deserves a president whose first meeting is in Kyiv, not in the Oval Office with a Kremlin asset. Poland deserves a leader who strengthens unity with Europe, not one who deepens institutional fracture at home. Poland deserves someone who respects the blood price Ukrainians pay every day to ensure Polish freedom.
A Warning to the Polish People
You, the Polish people, have every right to be wary. Your instincts are sound.
Nawrocki has revealed the truth: he is willing to put himself above you, to gamble your security for the sake of his rivalry with Tusk, and to validate Trump when Trump is the last man who should be trusted. Do not let this man wrap himself in your flag while selling out your future.
So Dear Poland, You have a traitor in your midst, and his name is Karol Nawrocki.
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