Earlier this month, the US also announced it would withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany after a row between Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war with Iran.<\/p>\n
Trump previously criticised Merz over his suggestion that the US had been “humiliated” by Iranian negotiators.<\/p>\n
It is unclear whether the additional troops for Poland were part of those withdrawing from Germany or a separate group.<\/p>\n
He has also been critical of Washington’s Nato allies for their unwillingness to join the US in pressuring Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Foreign ministers from Nato countries will meet in Sweden on Friday at a summit that includes US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n
Rubio is expected to call for increased burden sharing from Washington’s Nato partners.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the meeting, the BBC asked him about unconfirmed reports that the US could shrink its total troop numbers available in the event of an attack on a Nato country.<\/p>\n
Rubio said “some of those issues” will be discussed at the summit, adding that Trump remained very upset and disappointed with Nato allies.<\/p>\n
Trump’s announcement on Thursday comes a week after the defence department abruptly said it was cancelling the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland.<\/p>\n
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth later said the cancellation was “a temporary delay” of the planned deployment and the US will continue to ensure it “retains a strong military presence” in Poland.<\/p>\n
Nawrocki has long been a staunch Trump supporter and earned his endorsement before winning Poland’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
Speaking to the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme in January, the Polish president said Trump is the only world leader capable of stopping Vladimir Putin and ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Despite Trump’s previous criticism of the Nato alliance and his European counterparts, Nawrocki insisted the US was still the guarantor of security in Europe. <\/p>\n
Several Republican lawmakers have previously criticised Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Germany, saying it risked sending the wrong message to Russia.<\/p>\n
The US military deployment in Germany is by far its biggest in Europe, currently at more than 36,000 active duty troops compared to about 12,000 troops in Italy and a further 10,000 in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, the US also announced it would withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany after a row between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-597349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}