The U.S. will send more firepower to Europe, said Biden on Wednesday at NATO’s annual summit in Madrid. “[The NATOization of Europe] is exactly what Putin didn’t want, but exactly what needs to be done to guarantee security for Europe,” he said.
President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the NATO Summit on June 29, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. | Denis Doyle/Getty ImagesMADRID — The U.S. will send more destroyers, air defense systems and redeploy troops further east in the coming months, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday at NATO’s annual summit in Madrid.
“My position is that once Russia gets the whole Ukraine, they will proceed farther. Moldova, Baltic countries, Poland, Slovakia, Romania,” Jaroslav Nad, Slovakia’s defense minister, told POLITICO on the sidelines of the conference. “We have to stop them.” The U.S. had already deployed an armored brigade and aviation brigade to Poland in 2017, and the new commands will help with logistics and the planning of exercises across the east.
Probably the biggest and most visible part of the new deployments will be two more Arleigh Burke-class destroyers that will be homeported in Rota, Spain, making a total of six U.S. warships capable of performing air defense missions and launching cruise missiles well inland. The destroyers will help patrol the Mediterranean where Russian cruisers and submarines have been more active over the last year, and provide missile defense for southern European allies.
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