Poland said questions remain about why President Donald Trump canceled the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to the European country. In an interview published Tuesday, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Pawel Zalewski said he plans to press the Trump administration on why the Pentagon canceled the deployment of more than 4,000 Army troops, a move that reduced American military levels in Europe to near pre-2022 levels. The previous day, Polish deputy prime minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz warned that the reorganization “cannot be made at the cost of the biggest ally of the United States in Europe.” “We will ask questions, and I guess that we will get answers,” Zalewski told Fox News Digital.
“We remember that President Trump, directly talking with President Nawrodski, president of Poland, declared that the U.S. will maintain its armed forces in our country and the number of armed forces,” he added, pointing to Trump’s promise in September that “we’ll be staying in Poland.”
Zalewski and others in the Polish delegation are holding meetings in Washington this week. Despite concerns over the halted troop rotation, he stressed that Poland remains a “model ally” to the U.S. and that his delegation will focus on the future structure of NATO and defense cooperation between the U.S. and Europe during talks in the coming days.
