NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said he “welcomes” U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest announcement about deploying 5,000 troops to Poland.
NATO’s military commanders will work through details, Rutte said, during remarks to reporters ahead of the alliance’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Sweden, DW reported.
Trump said he plans to send 5,000 troops to Poland.
“Based on the successful Election of the now President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki,” Trump wrote in a social media post, “I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 Troops to Poland.”
But the decision led to confusion because it came two days after the Pentagon announced that it was suspending the deployment of a brigade combat team (4,000 to 4,700 troops) to Poland.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said then that it meant there was going to be a “temporary delay” of the scheduled deployment of US forces to Poland.
The Pentagon’s move was also surprising because it was Germany, not Poland, that criticized the US strategy in Iran, drawing Trump’s ire.
It was not clear whether Trump’s announcement meant the brigade would resume its deployment to Poland, if additional troops on top of that rotational deployment could be added, or whether there would still be a drawdown of U.S. troops in Europe but from a different country.
Trump said the U.S. would reduce troops in Germany in early May.
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