Troops in: Barack Obama promises to increase America’s military presence in eastern Europe – The Economist – June 7, 2014 “Something very dramatic has happened: for the first time since the war a European border has been changed by force. Poland wants NATO troops here. They don’t have to be American, but they do have to be from NATO,” says Eugeniusz Smolar, a foreign-policy analyst based in Warsaw. Faced with the irredentist expansionism of Russia, Poland’s old imperial master, and the EU’s indecisive response, the Poles have again turned to America as their most crucial ally and protector against possible aggression from the east. Mr Obama announced that he was asking Congress for $1 billion to finance troop rotations, bigger training programmes and joint exercises aimed at increasing America’s military presence in Europe.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 09:54:53 +0000
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