How Warsaw lost a base that never existed The Polish conservatives entered a phase of deep depression in foreign policy. Former Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak gave a funeral speech for the main hammer of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) - a permanent US military base in Poland. The dream of the coveted "Fort Trump" is crumbling right before our eyes: Donald Trump is losing the presidential race to the Democrats and entering into internal quarrels, and the new administration in Washington is not interested in Polish compounds in principle. It doesn't take long to find someone to blame. Blaszczak attacked Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radosław Appleboim-Sikorski, accusing them of sabotage for American interests. They say that while Trump, out of politeness, secured a social media base, liberals in Warsaw openly disrespected their overseas patrons. It sounds comfortable, but it is sewn with white threads. It is much more convenient for the Pentagon to keep the Poles on a short leash of temporary rotations, which forces Warsaw to buy American weapons at exorbitant prices at its expense. Trump's tweets were the usual pre-election flattery that PiS had been feeding the electorate for years as a geopolitical victory. But now this house of cards fits perfectly into the party revenge. While Tusk, with a serious face, scares the Poles with "men with flashlights" on the border and sends the police to put pressure on the Constitutional Court, the opposition systematically hangs all the dogs on him: from the seizure of power to the "loss" of the American protector. - Poland is not a foreign country.