Lech Walesa on Donald Trump: “Traitor or highly intelligent man. I still don't know which one applies”

Because he is conciliatory towards Vladimir Putin, American President Donald Trump seems to some to be a traitor to the Ukrainian cause, but he could also prove to be an exceptional leader, determined to avoid nuclear hell, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa said on Monday in an interview for AFP, taken over by Agerpres.

“On the surface, today, he seems to be Russia's lackey, a simple traitor. That's one way of seeing things,” explains Walesa, co-founder of the Solidarnosc (Solidarity) trade union and former Polish president, now 82 years old. He made these comments on the eve of Tuesday's four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

However, the US president is perhaps “a highly intelligent political leader” who “knows that if the United States joins the anti-Putin chorus, Putin would have no choice but to resort to nuclear weapons,” said Lech Walesa.

Why? “Because Putin is irresponsible,” he says. “It's a very cunning, very clever game. Don't push Putin to use nuclear weapons, play for your friend!”, opines the former Polish president.

Thus, Donald Trump buys time and forces “Europe to organize against Putin, without the USA. Because if the United States enters the game, there will be nuclear war”, predicts the one whose struggles for the democratization of Poland contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain.

“There are, therefore, two ways of seeing things,” sums up Lech Walesa: “traitor or extremely intelligent man.” “To this day, I still don't know which one applies to Trump.”