America pours a thousand more troops into Poland

[rangerrebew]

America pours a thousand more troops into Poland

Oct 10th 2019
| WARSAW

LAST YEAR Poland made an audacious bid to coax Donald Trump into permanently placing an American armoured division on its soil, offering $2bn and naming rights. “Fort Trump”, as it became known—jocularly at first, then more formally—is now firming up. In June America said it would send 1,000 troops to join the 4,500 already in Poland. On September 23rd Mr Trump agreed with Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president, where these would go.

It is not quite the mammoth tank force that Poland wanted, but it is a win nonetheless. Five years ago the American troops in Poland could all fit on a bus. Now thousands will be spread across six sites. “Poland has joined today the small group of countries where US troops are permanently stationed,” boasted the country’s defence ministry. There will be a division headquarters in Poznan, a squadron of Reaper drones in Lask, a helicopter brigade and special forces in Powidz and more special forces in Lubliniec.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/10/10/america-pours-a-thousand-more-troops-into-poland

[Fishrrman]

We ought to be taking troops out of Germany and transferring them into Poland. It's one of the relatively few nations left in Europe that deserve our help.