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“It made a lot of people mad locally, here” said Mark Kowalczyk, a 49-year-old fellow board member of the Polish American Citizens Club. “Because you’re signing bombs that could potentially kill innocent people. On either the Russia or Ukraine side. There’s innocent on both sides.”
Polish Americans have certainly been molded by a history of war. In the towns around Lackawanna County, banners commemorating local soldiers line the streets — dozens of them with Central European names. There’s Michael H. Urbanowicz, who served in World War II, Joseph Guziewicz Sr, who spent time in the U.S. airforce, and a William A. Zielenski, who fought in the Korean War.
Some Polish Americans argue ending the Ukraine war and associated bloodshed must be the priority. Trump supporters among them say doing a deal, even if it means ceding some Ukrainian land, is the fastest route to stop the fighting.
“There are people at this table who are strong Trump supporters because we want this war to end,” said John Kuna at the club in Dupont, adding that NATO membership would keep Poland safe.
This is a campaign point that Trump repeatedly hammers home, portraying himself as the candidate who could strong-arm freeloading European countries to increase defense spending. “[The war] threatens Poland because, as the expression goes: ‘You’re next.’ And you can’t have that. There would have been no ‘next’ [if I had been president],” Trump told Poland’s right-wing TV Republika channel last week. “No president has done more for the Polish people.”
In the city of Scranton, Prime Bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church Anthony Mikovsky said he understood the dilemma for Poles of wanting to helping their Ukrainian friends battle the Kremlin, while watching food and fuel prices rise at home.
