The United States has cancelled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland as part of a broader Pentagon plan to withdraw 5,000 soldiers from NATO territory in Germany, Euronews can confirm.
Earlier this month, the US administration announced the drawdown amid a growing rift between Washington and Berlin, after the German Chancellor Frederic Merz characterised the US-Israeli war in Iran as ill-conceived.
He also said that the White House had been "humiliated" in the regime in Tehran.
US President Donald Trump reacted angrily to the remarks, posting a series of messages attacking the German chancellor and telling him to spend more time “fixing his broken country” and less time “interfering” in Iran negotiations.
The Pentagon subsequently announced that Washington would withdraw at least 5,000 US troops from military bases across Germany over the next six to nine months.
