Drones, Drama, and Dysfunction
Poland’s leaders unite (briefly) as Russian drones cross the border Russian drones slipping into Polish airspace yesterday did what years of political manoeuvring, bitter infighting, and ego-driven posturing couldn’t: they forced Poland’s president and prime minister to act like grown-ups—for a few hours, at least. Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s MAGA-blessed president who rode a long-shot election win into office only weeks ago, has been waging a public street fight with Donald Tusk, the seasoned prime minister who’s seen more political cycles than Warsaw has seen renovations. Until the drones showed up, their main battlefield was X (yes, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where serious statesmen now reduce diplomacy to schoolyard taunts. Nawrocki was still basking in the glow of his White House photo-op with Donald Trump—where he somehow managed to extract promises of not just maintaining but maybe even increasing America’s 10,000 troops in Poland. He crowed that Tusk hadn’t pulled off...