Poland will face consequences if it introduces a levy on large technology companies, the incoming US envoy to Warsaw warned on Monday, as the spat between the two allies escalated.
The government seeks to present a model to collect taxes from the so-called Big Tech firms in the coming months, Digitization Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski was reported as saying by PAP newswire on Monday. Tom Rose, whom President Donald Trump appointed as US next ambassador in Poland, called the plan “not very smart” in a post on social media platform X.
Rose said that the new tax would hurt the relations between the two countries and the US president would “reciprocate as well he should.”
The response comes a day after Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski clashed with Elon Musk on the X platform over Starlink satellite-internet system for Ukraine and was also accused by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of “making things up.”
In Trump’s syphilitic brain, “Making America Great Again”, means every other country with the exception of Russia and China, bends the knee and does what America wants, no questions asked. To him, THAT is power. He’s too stupid to comprehend the concept of soft power and his diplomatic intelligence amounts only to trying to force others to be nothing more than client states.
This is just bullying tactics to try to make them do that. With the added benefit of destabilizing the west for Putin’s benefit.