U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Polish President Andrzej Duda attend a joint press conference in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017. PAimages/Xinhua/Chen Xu. All rights reserved.
Donald Trump attended the G20 summit in Hamburg last week where he had his first face-to-face meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Given the likely scrutiny and commotion the event would receive, Trump needed a sure foreign policy 'win'. Hence the short preceding stopover in Warsaw where Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) establishment was only too happy to cater to the US president's needs.
The visit was somewhat unconventional. Framed as a work meeting with Poland's president Andrzej Duda, it was supposed to have the allure of a major geopolitical event underlining Poland's status as a US ally and project American support for the Three Seas Initiative (TSI) summit taking place in Warsaw.
