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President Donald Trump has said the US volition beryllium sending an further 5,000 troops to Poland, a week aft the Pentagon cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 troops to the country.
Writing connected Truth Social, Trump said the determination was based connected the US's narration with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, whom helium backed during statesmanlike elections past year.
The US president did not supply further details connected whether the further troops were portion of the erstwhile planned deployment oregon a antithetic operation.
The White House has signalled successful caller weeks that it intends to trim its wide unit levels successful Europe arsenic portion of its "America First" agenda.
Earlier this month, the US besides announced it would retreat 5,000 troops from Germany aft a enactment betwixt Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz implicit the warfare with Iran.
Trump antecedently criticised Merz implicit his proposition that the US had been "humiliated" by Iranian negotiators.
It is unclear whether the further troops for Poland were portion of those withdrawing from Germany oregon a abstracted group.
He has besides been captious of Washington's Nato allies for their unwillingness to articulation the US successful pressuring Iran implicit the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump's announcement connected Thursday comes a week aft the defence section abruptly said it was cancelling the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth aboriginal said the cancellation was "a impermanent delay" of the planned deployment and the US volition proceed to guarantee it "retains a beardown subject presence" successful Poland.
Nawrocki has agelong been a staunch Trump protagonist and earned his endorsement earlier winning Poland's statesmanlike election.
Speaking to the BBC's Radio 4 Today programme successful January, the Polish president said Trump is the lone satellite person susceptible of stopping Vladimir Putin and ending the warfare successful Ukraine.
Despite Trump's erstwhile disapproval of the Nato confederation and his European counterparts, Nawrocki insisted the US was inactive the guarantor of information successful Europe.
Several Republican lawmakers person antecedently criticised Trump's determination to retreat troops from Germany, saying it risked sending the incorrect connection to Russia.
The US subject deployment successful Germany is by acold its biggest successful Europe, presently astatine much than 36,000 progressive work troops compared to astir 12,000 troops successful Italy and a further 10,000 successful the UK.
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