{"id":395173,"date":"2025-09-03T18:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395173\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:15:13","slug":"trump-pledges-not-to-pull-us-troops-out-of-poland-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/395173\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pledges not to pull US troops out of Poland \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/america-military-presence-europe-not-forever-us-pete-hegseth-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8,000 U.S. troops are stationed<\/a>\u00a0in Poland, which borders Russia and is historically one of America\u2019s closest European allies.<\/p>\n<p>Poland is the top spender in NATO as a percentage of GDP, with a defense budget in 2025 of 4.7 percent, something Trump praised Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nawrocki\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/liberal-rafal-trzaskowski-presidential-election-poland-donald-tusk-pis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">narrowly won<\/a>\u00a0Poland\u2019s presidency in early June with the backing of the nationalist Law and Justice party and was endorsed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time in Polish history \u2026 that the Poles are happy that we have foreign soldiers in Poland,\u201d the Polish president joked, adding their cooperation sent an important \u201csignal\u201d to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith American soldiers on Polish soil \u2026 we are secure,\u201d Nawrocki added.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About\u00a08,000 U.S. troops are stationed\u00a0in Poland, which borders Russia and is historically one of America\u2019s closest European allies.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,51030,770,811,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-395173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-karol-nawrocki","10":"tag-poland","11":"tag-security","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141733528384830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}