{"id":7103,"date":"2018-05-30T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:55:03","slug":"poland-offers-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/poland-offers-2-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Offers to Pay $2 Billion for Permanent U.S. Troop Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak (shown, above), said on May 28 that he has held talks with U.S. officials about having thousands of U.S. troops permanently stationed in Poland, presumably as a deterrent to possible Russian incursions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Army Times<\/em>\u00a0quoted a Polish defense ministry statement that there is a \u201cclear and present need for a permanent U.S. armored division deployed in Poland,\u201d for which Poland is willing to provide financial backing that could reach $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cclear and present need\u201d outlined in the document appeared to be prompted by possible threats from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstablishing such a force is necessary to present an unequivocal challenge and deterrence to Russia\u2019s increasingly emboldened and dangerous posture that threatens Europe,\u201d the proposal reads.<\/p>\n<p>The document cites the Trump administration\u2019s 2017 National Security Strategy, which identified Russian aggression in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine in 2014 as threats to the United States and global stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs shown in Ukraine, Russia is capable of effectively deploying hybrid warfare through its annexation of Crimea, cyberattacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, and fueling separatists,\u201d the document reads. \u201cAn increased U.S. permanent presence in Poland will give America the strategic flexibility it needs to confront and deter these threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (shown, left) welcomed Blaszczak to the Pentagon on April 27 and said that \u201cthe United States and Poland have a long-shared history of military cooperation and understanding.\u201d Mattis said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the bond between our two nations\u2019 militaries and our people remain strong. And we thank you for Poland\u2019s continued hosting of U.S. and NATO forces, and for your contribution to the Defeat ISIS campaign and Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Poland\u2019s offer to subsidize the U.S. troop presence might serve to mitigate the financial burden of stationing those forces, it does nothing to alleviate the biggest objection that noninterventionists will make \u2014 it entangles the United States in a foreign alliance where we might get bogged down in yet another overseas military operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014 Poland\u2019s defense minister, Mariusz Blaszczak (shown, above), said on May 28 that he has held talks with U.S. officials about having thousands of U.S. troops permanently stationed in Poland, presumably as a deterrent to possible Russian incursions. Army Times\u00a0quoted a Polish defense ministry statement that there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":7104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[709,360],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-poland","tag-russia","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16902,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/16902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}