Polish authorities and ordinary Poles welcomed Saturday US troops who arrived this week as part of an unprecedented deployment to Nato’s eastern flank aimed at deterring Russia. Poland on Friday told Trump that any improvement in Washington’s ties with Moscow cannot come at the cost of harming Warsaw. ‘Safe Poland’According to Poland’s Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz, a total of 7,000 US and Nato troops will be stationed in his country in the coming years. Tensions between Russia and the West have escalated over the past two years, triggered by Russia’s actions in Ukraine and its military campaign in Syria since late 2015. Last summer, Nato leaders endorsed plans to rotate troops into Poland and the three Baltic states to reassure them they would not be left in the lurch if Russia was tempted to repeat its Ukraine intervention.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 14, 2017 17:08 UTC