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Tehran, 06 June_Warsaw has expressed willingness to accommodate more American troops in the country and hoped that a portion of US forces set to be removed from Germany would be reassigned to Poland, a move that would probably draw Russia’s indignation against the backdrop of NATO-related tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made the comment on Saturday after US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to decrease US military presence in Germany and cut the number of American forces stationed there.
The move would reduce the number of US troops by 9,500 from the 34,500 permanently assigned in Germany.
“I deeply hope that as a result of the many talks that we had ... part of the troops based today in Germany which are being removed by the United States ... will indeed come to Poland,” Morawiecki told private radio RMF24. “The decision is now on the US side.”
The troop reduction is said to be related to the escalating tensions between Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the increased military spending by the NATO military alliance.
The US president has on several occasions criticized Berlin for spending too little on defense and called on America’s allies in NATO to spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense by 2024.
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