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Poland President: USA is not planning a troop deduction from Europe
After the shock in the transatlantic relationship, many fear that the USA could withdraw soldiers from Europe. Poland’s head of state has heard of the high-height US politicians.
After talks, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda does not expect US government officials to reduce their troop strength in Europe or even deduct the soldiers completely. “There is nothing to indicate that the United States will withdraw from Europe,” said Duda in Warsaw after a meeting with the US special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.
US Defense Minister Pete Hegseth had even clearly promised him last week that Poland could rather expect to reinforce American troops. Duda said with a view to the NATO-East flank and his country: “There is absolutely no American intention to reduce activities with regard to security in our part of Europe or to reduce the number of American troops.”
The demand of US President Donald Trump for higher defense spending on the other NATO countries and the frontal attack by US Vice President JD Vance for European democracies at the Munich Security Conference have stanked fear in Europe that the Americans could deduct troops from the continent.
US Defense Minister Hegseth said last week when you visited a troop in Stuttgart that it was not immediately planned to reduce troop strength in Europe. However, he emphasized: “There is agreement that we will check the argument worldwide.” US President Donald Trump has different ideas than his predecessor Joe Biden in many places.
According to the European Command of the US Armed Forces (Eucom), around 78,000 American soldiers are stationed in Europe-including around 37,000 in Germany. In Poland it is around 10,000 on a rotary basis.
Kellogg visited Poland in transit to Kiev, where he will meet Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow on Thursday.
dpa
Source: Stern
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