Lech Walesa on America

By Semperpapa

Lech Walesa is the Polish leader who in 1980 led the movement in Poland called Solidarity. It started as an act of protest on the part of the shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland, demanding better treatment on the part of than Communist leadership.
The movement started by Walesa became a symbol of resurgence of people behind the Iron Curtain in revolt against the oppression of their Soviet puppet governments.

Even under the ever existing danger of a Soviet intervention to prop up the increasingly unpopular Polish pro-Soviet government, just as it had happened in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1967, Walesa and his followers pressed on, eventually winning freedom of self-determination for the people of Poland when elected President of the Republic of Poland in 1990.
So Lech Walesa is connoisseur of struggle for freedom, of imprisonment and political persecution. And he has always spoken openly about the symbol of hope the United States represented for those seeking freedom and independence across the globe.

For such reason the following statement made by Walesa about America just few days ago is the more eye opening:

The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.

And these are my thoughts!