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Stoczniowiec. Gdańsk. We are the ones who still need the Americans and nobody asks us.
Everyone in Brussels is very brave this week about the Americans leaving.
I live four hundred kilometres from Kaliningrad. My yard has cranes and my grandfather had a very different flag over this shipyard.
You may all be right about the principle. Please understand that some of us are doing arithmetic tonight and the arithmetic is not about principle.
Iceland had no army because for eighty years it did not need one, and it did not need one because of a promise.
Every small country in Europe is doing the same arithmetic tonight and it is not about Iceland. It is about what a promise is worth on a Sunday morning.
Every American aircraft that flew west out of this continent last month is now bombing a European country.
I said in January that some of us were doing arithmetic. Here is the answer to the arithmetic: there is nobody coming. Not for them, not for us. We are alone at this end of the map and we had better start acting like it.