On the occasion of the Alliance summit which ends Thursday in Madrid, Washington notably announced that it wanted to strengthen its workforce in Poland, send around forty F-35 to the United Kingdom and add two new destroyers to Spain.
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The day after the lifting of the Turkish veto on the membership of Sweden and Finland at NATO, the second day of the Atlantic Alliance summit in Madrid on Wednesday, June 29, was marked by the announces new American military reinforcements in Europe. Earthly, maritime and air reinforcements, significant of Washington’s desire to reassure its allies and to muscle NATO’s defense capacities against Russia, even if some of these announcements come to complete projects started for several years.
Russia represents “the most important and direct threat” for the security of the Western military coalition, said Stoltenberg following American announcements. “Russia has broken peace in Europe,” he added. Ads to which Moscow reacted very quickly: “Those who offer such decisions have the illusion that Russia can be intimidated, in a way contained: they will not succeed,” said Russian Foreign Deputy Minister , Sergei Riabkov. “There will be no results,” said Riabkov, while adding that it would bring “without a doubt an answer”.
The American system, which had already been strengthened at the start of the war, with the sending of 20,000 men to Europe – reaching the symbolic threshold of 100,000 – has several components. The first concerns the ground troops in Poland. In this country where the American presence is old and where the workforce has exceeded 10,000 soldiers in recent months – against 4,000 before the war – a “permanent” base will be created, said US President Joe Biden on Wednesday . Since the Cold War, the United States has always had men deployed in Europe, but they are regularly raised. These “non -permanent” troops constituted one of the points of tension of Russia since the founding act of 1997 supposed to limit military climbing on the eastern flank.
What was presented Wednesday by the United States as a new “advanced command post” in Poland has already been inaugurated, in 2020, in Poznan, but with only 200 prepositioned men. This time, the United States seems to want to perpetuate and build this command post attached to 5 e corps, as well as “the garrison headquarters and a support regiment”, according to a Additional declaration of the White House on Wednesday. These are “the first permanent American forces on the eastern NATO side,” welcomed Washington. Rotations of troops should also be added to this device.
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