The military alliance’s chief tried to manage expectations after Donald Trump said he would deploy 5,000 troops to PolandPoland’s Radosław Sikorski showed up beaming after last night’s US announcement on the deployment of 5,000 US troops to Poland.He thanks Trump for the decision, saying it means the presence of US troops in Poland “will be maintained more or less at previous levels,” after the Pentagon halted a planned rotation of 4,000 troops.
For what it’s worth, we should hear from the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, soon as he’s expected to arrive at the Nato ministerial any moment now.
Maybe he can offer a bit more clarity on the US deployment to Poland, after the host, Sweden’s Maria Malmer Stenergard, conceded that the US announcements are sometimes “confusing indeed, and not always easy to navigate.”
