Trump hails ‘major progress’ on setting up US Army base in Poland

The US president made the announcement as Moscow warned European NATO members against provoking a war with Russia The US has made major progress in negotiations to establish a military base in Poland, President Donald Trump has announced. His remarks came as Russia warned that it would retaliate if the territory of Poland or the Baltic states were used for a NATO attack against the country. Poland, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the northeast, is a key logistics hub for delivering Western military aid to Ukraine and is one of Kiev’s main supporters in Europe. “GREAT NEWS! Thanks to the bold leadership of my friend, Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland, major progress is being made toward establishing a US Army base in Poland,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “If this happens, the location will be announced very soon.

This will be a historic step for our Great US/Polish Alliance. ” Russian war with Europe would be ‘very short’ – Lavrov Nawrocki responded by promising to find “the best possible location” for the base. “We are ready to continue our efforts to strengthen our defense cooperation: seriously, responsibly, and always together,” he wrote on X. The US already maintains a permanent Army garrison and command headquarters in Poland, although most of the 10,000 US troops stationed in the country serve on a rotational basis. During Trump’s first term in 2018, Poland offered to host a permanent base tentatively named ‘Fort Trump’. Under Trump’s successor, President Joe Biden, the US established a garrison headquartered at Camp Kosciuszko in Poznan and permanently stationed the V Corps Forward Headquarters in the city. Tensions between Russia and NATO have flared in…