Melike Pala<\/p>\n
02 April 2026\u2022Update: 02 April 2026<\/p>\n
BRUSSELS <\/p>\n
Poland\u2019s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Thursday warned that the possibility of the US withdrawing from NATO should be treated as a serious scenario, urging allies to prepare alternative security arrangements.<\/p>\n
“We should treat this [the US withdrawal from NATO] as a possible scenario and take it seriously – us in Poland, especially on the eastern flank, and all of us, across the political spectrum,” he said in a post on US social media company X.<\/p>\n
He noted that when he previously called for maintaining two \u201cinsurance policies\u201d in a foreign policy address to parliament, the idea drew surprise, but recent developments have reinforced the need to consider alternatives.<\/p>\n
“Of course, NATO is the cornerstone of our security. Of course, we want to be a good, loyal ally of the United States, but we cannot pretend that the U.S. President isn\u2019t saying what he is saying,” the minister added.<\/p>\n
Sikorski\u2019s remarks followed renewed criticism of NATO by US President Donald Trump over the alliance\u2019s response to the Strait of Hormuz crisis.<\/p>\n
Trump has previously labeled alliance members \u201ccowards\u201d and, in an interview with The Telegraph, described NATO as a \u201cpaper tiger,\u201d adding that leaving the alliance was \u201cbeyond reconsideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
A unilateral US withdrawal from NATO would face legal constraints, as a 2023 law requires approval from a two-thirds majority in the US Senate before any such move can proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melike Pala 02 April 2026\u2022Update: 02 April 2026 BRUSSELS Poland\u2019s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Thursday warned that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[323,9,367,851],"class_list":{"0":"post-2710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poland","8":"tag-nato","9":"tag-poland","10":"tag-radoslaw-sikorski","11":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}