The US already has about 5,000 troops in Poland, with an additional 1,000 on their way from Germany. What does this development mean to the players in the region?
spoke to Luke Coffey, Director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation about the moves and he believes that there are two primary elements that spurred the decision to send more troops to Poland.
“Russia has also been threatening NATO in the region. So this additional deployment is about deterrence and reassuring NATO.Eurasia analyst Esref Yalinkilicli tellsthat the term Russian aggression “has been fabricated and in use by the West since the Russian intervention in Georgia in August 2008, and most particularly after 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine”.
There has been what Yalinkilicli calls “Russian proactive foreign policy” towards its Western borders in the recent decade. Yalinkilicli adds that “the US and its NATO allies also exploited this term in order to legitimise NATO's eastward expansion”. Coffey agrees, noting: “Many in the Trump administration see Poland as America’s number one ally in Eastern Europe.”consulted, Military Analyst Alexander Yermakov of Russian International Affairs Council, said: “Poland just wants to strengthen its position in NATO and in Europe as a key ally of the United States.”“Russia is discontent with NATO presence in Eastern Europe which it considers a buffer zone between Europe and itself,” he explained.
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