{"id":6566,"date":"2026-05-14T19:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/6566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:17:06","slug":"donald-trump-in-new-feud-with-poland-after-taking-5000-troops-out-of-germany-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/6566\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump in new feud with Poland after taking 5,000 troops out of Germany | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States is set to cancel the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland<\/a>, according to three US Army officials. The move comes just weeks after the country confirmed that it was to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany<\/a> after comments made by the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The United States<\/a> also cancelled a plan developed under the Biden administration to place a missile-equipped artillery unit in Europe. It comes after Germany provoked the ire of the White House after Merz claimed that Iran had \u201chumiliated\u201d Washington<\/a> during the ongoing conflict. Merz also questioned how the United States planned to end the war.<\/p>\n

The rationale behind the move to halt the deployment of a brigade to Poland remains unclear but Donald Trump<\/a> previously told reporters: \u201cwe\u2019re cutting a lot further than 5,000\u201d service members from Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also threatened to remove troops from other European countries as part of his ongoing attempt to call on the continent to shoulder more responsibility for its security and defence.<\/p>\n

The decision to withdraw troops from Germany, which has the second-highest troop presence outside the United States, with 30,000 active-duty personnel, has drawn criticism from both sides of the American political spectrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cPoland would like that,” Trump told journalists earlier this month when asked about the prospect. “We have a great relationship with Poland. I have a great relationship with the president. … I like him a lot, so that’s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poland\u2019s defence minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, said in a social media post late Wednesday that the decision relates to a previously announced change in the presence of some U.S. Armed Forces in Europe,\u201d as he played down the idea that it was being done in response to actions from Krakow.<\/p>\n

Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement earlier this month that the withdrawal from Germany would be completed over the next six to 12 months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision follows a thorough review of the department\u2019s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theatre requirements and conditions on the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is set to cancel the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland, according to three US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,74,943,417,5550,5548,323,9,5549,5551],"class_list":{"0":"post-6566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-friedrich-merz","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-germany-troop-reduction","13":"tag-international-relations","14":"tag-nato","15":"tag-poland","16":"tag-poland-troop-withdrawal","17":"tag-us-europe-military-relations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}