{"id":12327,"date":"2026-08-28T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/12327\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:26:51","slug":"us-probes-nato-allies-over-military-support-as-it-mulls-further-troop-cuts-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/12327\/","title":{"rendered":"US probes NATO allies over military support as it mulls further troop cuts \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The review process is also raising fears that allies will compete for a U.S. presence on their territory.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting with envoys on Thursday, \u201callies entered in a \u2018beauty contest\u2019,\u201d said one NATO diplomat, \u201cwith everyone highlighting his [or] her country\u2019s implementation of NATO 3.0\u201d \u2014 a reference to the U.S.-led effort to make Europe take responsibility for its conventional defense.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Deputy Defense Minister Pawe\u0142 Zalewski told POLITICO that Warsaw\u00a0was \u201cready to propose\u201d different locations, \u201cfinancing\u201d and \u201clogistics required\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-permanent-us-base-donald-trump-soldiers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal to permanently station U.S. troops<\/a> in the country. However, he insisted, \u201cthis review is based not on beauty offers, but on common interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NATO ambassadors didn\u2019t make specific offers to Colby in Thursday\u2019s meeting but highlighted their progress on alliance military capability targets, defense spending and their offers to substitute U.S. forces as part of alliance war plans, the two NATO diplomats said. One described the meeting, overall, as \u201cvery constructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who commands American troops in Europe, is set to present Colby with military recommendations for the review next month, said the person familiar with the matter, ahead of a more formal decision on the review\u2019s outcome by Hegseth in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The review process is also raising fears that allies will compete for a U.S. presence on their territory.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[855,46,60,57,722,8,156,182,717,66,203,328,910,1690,49,130],"class_list":["post-12327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-airspace","tag-canada","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-defense","tag-france","tag-iran","tag-italy","tag-logistics","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-spain","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}