In Poland will not be US military bases. The United States does not consider such a possibility, transmits Polskie Radio.
The theme of the permanent presence of US troops in Poland was actively discussed recently in the western, and in the Russian media. reported, that Warsaw was ready to pay even the United States $2 billion. for placing on the Vistula Panzer Division.
Currently, the US contingent is only in Poland on a rotational basis. The number of troops up 5 thousands of people. On the establishment of bases in the country were busy as the current president Andrzej Duda, and his predecessor, Bronislaw Komorowski, It reminds the edition.
According to the US ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Washington is not considering the constant presence of troops in Poland and "not taken on this issue no action". Poland, certainly, good ally, but today the US has no plans to deploy military bases there permanently, she added.
The idea of creating a database recently criticized even the commander of US forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges. In his opinion, such a move would not need to exacerbate the situation in Europe.
It distressed by this turn of affairs, not only in Poland, but also in the Baltic States, located in the immediate vicinity of the Russian Federation, He notes portal.
he reminds, that the idea of a permanent presence in the NATO debates raised since the "annexation of Crimea" Russia, as well as the outbreak of war in the Donbas. the, Firstly, resisting Germany and other Western countries, fearing an escalation "of the conflict with Russia".
