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6. U.S.-Polish Fort Trump project crumbles

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Tue Jun 16, 2020, 01:04 PM

Jun 2020

JUNE 10, 2020 / 4:02 PM / 6 DAYS AGO
Joanna Plucinska, Idrees Ali

... A U.S. official familiar with the matter said the idea had been doomed from the start: “There is no Fort Trump.”

On June 12 last year, Trump agreed, with Polish President Andrzej Duda beside him at the White House, to send 1,000 more troops to his NATO ally, bolstering its defenses against Russia to the east and cementing bilateral ties ...

A year on, government officials in Washington and Warsaw say they still cannot agree where the troops should be stationed, and how much of the multi-billion-dollar deployment Warsaw should fund ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-usa-defense-forttrump/u-s-polish-fort-trump-project-crumbles-idUSKBN23H36P

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