That’s a bit weird to me – Poland, for example, has a permanent presence in Latvia, yet here it doesn’t show anything. Does it only show countries that aren’t bordering Russia?
When it comes to Enhanced Forward Presence, Poland is the only country that is host and also a contributor, but it’s not shown here at all.
Also Tailored Forward Presence, where Poland has 230 troops in Romania afaik
Denmark having none of it from Russia
European send tiny number army than US. Trump is right about EU
> Europe should do more. Our current defense spending is on par with China but wasted on duplication and inefficiency. A European army would be a win for the taxpayer first and foremost
I still agree
EU/NATO countries have saved hell lots of defence funds thanks to US post WW2.
The EU, you mean US free use army. According to this U.S. has 20k troops where as the next largest contributor is Britain with 1k.
Dutch in Slovakia too
Only 200 guys but I’m glad that we are there.
Is this a good troop number?
50k troops in support seems kind of small between baltics/Poland/Romania.
I’m guessing these numbers will quickly be rein-enforced if Russia does take any military action.
This map certainly seems wrong. And no source is mentioned on it for us to verify, which doesn’t help its credibility. I don’t know if you got the other countries right but I’m pretty sure France has a few hundreds troops in Estonia in the British-led NATO battlegroup (there were 300 before the invasion and 500 French troops there now). France also certainly has more than 300 on the Romanian front. It is the NATO battlegroup it leads. 300 Alpine Hunters from the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade as well as various equipment were originally deployed on short-notice a few hours after the Russian invasion and that’s probably what’s represented. But the number of troops was raised to 500 a few days later and there has been further human and material reinforcements sent since then and more to come since the plan is a permanent brigade-sized French unit in Romania. 300 is the number of Belgian troops deployed late February to join the French. I remember that one. I don’t know if Belgium deployed more men to Romania since then but it is likely.
Edit: Just saw you linked the source in the comments. The map is from Atlantic Concil (it’s a “think tank” for those who don’t know) and dates back to May. But even in May, it was wrong. France had more troops than what’s represented on the map in the British-led battlegroup in Estonia alone.
Just why is canada part of nato ? wouldn’t they benefit even if they weren’t ?
Romania be like “I like collecting flags.”
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love the fact that as soon as WW3 starts we are gonna be defending Romania in the front lines.
god i love my country and it’s bravery so much.
Highly misleading.
These are just the **ADDITIONAL** Nato troops senst to Eastern Europe from February to April 2022.
There were already thousands of Nato troops in particual in the baltics before.
I think this map is a bit misleading. Even Croatia which is a small country has units in Hungary, Kosovo, Poland and Lithuania and that is just in Europe.
America should send us some more troops. Why spend such astronomical amounts of money on the military and then not put it where they are needed the most?
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[source](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/trackers-and-data-visualizations/nato-forward-forces-tracker)
At 27th of April.
That’s a bit weird to me – Poland, for example, has a permanent presence in Latvia, yet here it doesn’t show anything. Does it only show countries that aren’t bordering Russia?
When it comes to Enhanced Forward Presence, Poland is the only country that is host and also a contributor, but it’s not shown here at all.
Also Tailored Forward Presence, where Poland has 230 troops in Romania afaik
Denmark having none of it from Russia
European send tiny number army than US. Trump is right about EU
> Europe should do more. Our current defense spending is on par with China but wasted on duplication and inefficiency. A European army would be a win for the taxpayer first and foremost
I still agree
EU/NATO countries have saved hell lots of defence funds thanks to US post WW2.
The EU, you mean US free use army. According to this U.S. has 20k troops where as the next largest contributor is Britain with 1k.
Dutch in Slovakia too
Only 200 guys but I’m glad that we are there.
Is this a good troop number?
50k troops in support seems kind of small between baltics/Poland/Romania.
I’m guessing these numbers will quickly be rein-enforced if Russia does take any military action.
This map certainly seems wrong. And no source is mentioned on it for us to verify, which doesn’t help its credibility. I don’t know if you got the other countries right but I’m pretty sure France has a few hundreds troops in Estonia in the British-led NATO battlegroup (there were 300 before the invasion and 500 French troops there now). France also certainly has more than 300 on the Romanian front. It is the NATO battlegroup it leads. 300 Alpine Hunters from the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade as well as various equipment were originally deployed on short-notice a few hours after the Russian invasion and that’s probably what’s represented. But the number of troops was raised to 500 a few days later and there has been further human and material reinforcements sent since then and more to come since the plan is a permanent brigade-sized French unit in Romania. 300 is the number of Belgian troops deployed late February to join the French. I remember that one. I don’t know if Belgium deployed more men to Romania since then but it is likely.
Edit: Just saw you linked the source in the comments. The map is from Atlantic Concil (it’s a “think tank” for those who don’t know) and dates back to May. But even in May, it was wrong. France had more troops than what’s represented on the map in the British-led battlegroup in Estonia alone.
Just why is canada part of nato ? wouldn’t they benefit even if they weren’t ?
Romania be like “I like collecting flags.”
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love the fact that as soon as WW3 starts we are gonna be defending Romania in the front lines.
god i love my country and it’s bravery so much.
Highly misleading.
These are just the **ADDITIONAL** Nato troops senst to Eastern Europe from February to April 2022.
It says so right in the source.
[https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/trackers-and-data-visualizations/nato-forward-forces-tracker/](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/trackers-and-data-visualizations/nato-forward-forces-tracker/)
There were already thousands of Nato troops in particual in the baltics before.
I think this map is a bit misleading. Even Croatia which is a small country has units in Hungary, Kosovo, Poland and Lithuania and that is just in Europe.
America should send us some more troops. Why spend such astronomical amounts of money on the military and then not put it where they are needed the most?
Are we talking about [this](https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_136388.htm) or that’s another matter? Because there are troops from many other countries involved.
“100 Forces”
You mean “100 soldiers”?
I think we send a small troop to romania too since the invasion, no?
Denmark is looking for some new land with a special surprise operation. I always wanted to go to st Petersburg
Interesting that this map doesn’t show the British forces in Germany