The president made the announcement as Russia warned European NATO members against provoking a war with Moscow<\/p>\n
The US has made major progress in negotiations to establish a military base in Poland, President Donald Trump has announced.
\nHis 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.
\nPoland, which borders Russia\u2019s Kaliningrad exclave to the northeast, is a key logistics hub for delivering Western military aid to Ukraine and one of Kiev\u2019s main supporters in Europe.
\n\u201cGREAT 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,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.
\n\u201cIf this happens, the location will be announced very soon. This will be a historic step for our Great US\/Polish Alliance,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
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Russian war with Europe would be \u2018very short\u2019 \u2013 Lavrov<\/p>\n
Nawrocki responded by promising to find \u201cthe best possible location\u201d for the base. \u201cWe are ready to continue our efforts to strengthen our defense cooperation: seriously, responsibly, and always together,\u201d he wrote on X.
\nThe US already maintains a permanent Army garrison and command headquarters in Poland, although most of the roughly 10,000 American troops stationed in the country serve on a rotational basis. During Trump\u2019s first term, Poland offered in 2018 to host a permanent base tentatively named \u201cFort Trump.\u201d
\nUnder Trump\u2019s 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.
\nTensions between Russia and NATO have flared in recent months as eastern members of the US-led military bloc have blamed Russia for drone incursions. Moscow has dismissed the allegations as unfounded.
\nPolish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said during a trip to Kiev over the weekend that \u201cif Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we would defeat Russia quite quickly.\u201d
\nRussian presidential aide and former security chief Nikolay Patrushev responded to Sikorski by warning that \u201cPolish statehood would cease to exist within two or three days\u201d should a conflict break out.
\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated this week that the country had no intention of attacking NATO members, but said that if the bloc attacked Russia, the war would be \u201cvery short.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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