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Sunday, 02 August 2020_US President Donald Trump’s decision to shift around 1,000 American troops from bases in Western Europe to Poland is a “very provocative move” that will only escalate tensions with Russia, says a former US diplomat and Senate policy adviser.
“This is a very provocative move with respect to Russia,” James Jatras said in an interview Saturday.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced on Friday that the US would deploy at least 1,000 soldiers in Poland.
Blaszczak made the remarks a day after his American counterpart, Mark Esper, said the Pentagon would be sending home about 6,400 troops from Germany and move nearly 5,600 to other NATO countries.
“Donald Trump has said all along he wanted to get the troops out of Germany. He sort of thinks of this, I guess, as some kind of punishment for Germany for not paying its fair share of NATO costs,” Jatras told Press TV.
“Originally he talked about bringing them back to the United States. I think the permanent machinery of government says they don't want them to come out of Europe, so instead they're going to go to Poland where, in some sense, I would say they're even more dangerous there than having them in Germany,” he noted.
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