Szymon Hołownia: Musk should apologize to Sikorski

On Sunday, on the billionaire and member of the US President Elon Muska, the Portal X was exchanged between the boss Polish Ministry of Foreign AffairsUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Musk regarding Starlink systems, produced by Musk's company and used to ensure communication to Ukrainian troops defending themselves against Russians.

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On Monday during a press conference before departure to Vilnius, the Marshal of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia He assessed that the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was right. – I think that Minister Sikorski wrote the truth. I am proud that we have such a foreign minister. He wrote the truth and did it not in a confrontational tone, but in the tone of the exchange of information he presented the facts – said Hołownia.

Referring to Musk's speech and naming Sikorski a “little man”, the marshal decided that the businessman should apologize to the Polish minister. – Poland is a proud country and will not allow anyone, regardless of how many billions he has in their account, humiliate themselves, their government, or speak to anyone who is a representative of the Republic of Poland, like some coldness – emphasized Hołownia.

– Minister Sikorski is the minister of the Government of the Republic of Poland, and the Republic of Poland is a proud, responsible and fulfilling US partner. Nobody has the right to offend Polish ministers in this way. We are not a push, only the Commonwealth. Mr. Musk is new in politics, maybe he does not know that there are slightly different rules here – but he should apologize to Minister Sikorski, and for this and Rzeczpospolita – Hołownia said. He added that Polish-American relations must be calm and based on facts and truth. – We buy a lot of weapons from the USA, we have good relationships, because we have always had such historically. The Polish-American alliance is one of the pillars NATO. (…) This is a lot of cards, (…) which lie on the table, which you have to play wisely, and not escalate international policy, especially at such time, in some primitive octagon – said the Speaker of the Sejm.

– This is not a place, this is not the time. People die, lots of people are afraid where people do not die, that things can get out of control. Here you have to tone emotions, and when you get stuck to be able to apologize and not add olive oil into the fire. Minister Sikorski said nothing that would not be true. He said it in an honest and rational way. I believe that these structures of the American state, apart from this policy, which in quotation marks takes place on Twitter, on various television, in various such emotional impulses, that the American state perfectly understands what is the position of Poland today and that we do not need today on the line today United States – Poland no conflicts, no attacks, no injuries, only a substantive conversation – said Hołownia.

– Nobody has the right to talk to the Polish minister to close himself or that he is a little man. It's just outrageous – Hołownia summed up.

Elon Muskacting in administration Donald Trumphe wrote on Sunday that Ukrainians without Starlinks his company Spacex would not be able to fight with Russia And if they turned them off, the front of the defenders would collapse. Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski He reacted, writing, among others, that this equipment for Ukraine It pays Poland at the cost of $ 50 million a year and if SpaceX turns out to be unbelievable as a company, Warsaw will look for another supplier of this technology.

Poland currently maintains 25,000 Starlink sets in Ukraine, and at the end of February another five thousand were ordered with this purpose.

Marco Rubio joined the discussion after Sikorski's post, the Secretary of State of the USA, who stood up for the billionaire and told the head of Polish diplomacy to “thank” for the fact that the Russians have not yet approached the Polish border. Then Musk called Sikorski a “little man” who should be “quiet”.

Sikorski later wrote back Rubio, starting with “thank you”. “Thank you, Marco, for confirming that brave soldiers of Ukraine can count on the necessary internet service provided jointly by the US and Poland,” we read.

Musk finally announced that his company would never turn off Starlinks Ukraine. However, he did not do it in response to Sikorski's entry.