Melissa Hooper is the director of foreign policy advocacy at Human Rights First. Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Here’s a suggestion to President Trump ahead of his scheduled visit to Poland at the end of this month: Please, don’t go.
That is not to deny that Poland is an important ally. It is, just like Denmark — though that didn’t stop Trump from canceling a trip to Copenhagen this week. Polish troops have fought and died alongside their American brothers in arms in both Afghanistan and Iraq. And the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, the commemorations of which Trump is supposed to attend in Warsaw, is a significant one, deserving of the presence of the world’s top leaders.
