WARSAW, TUESDAY

IN WARSAW, THEY’RE calling it TACO Tuesday, as they absorb US President Donald Trump’s promise, yesterday, to defend Poland and the rest of NATO from Russia.

“People are genuinely terrified,” admitted one local politician. “Not only does ‘Trump Always Chicken Out’ but, worse than that, he just loses interest or changes his mind in an instant. If he had told Putin he would not lift a finger to help us, then we would be overjoyed. But the promise of assistance. That has the current value of the dollar, and depreciates in the same manner. We are so used to Western promises of military assistance followed by nothing. Maybe if he built a golf course here …”