Polish President Karol Nawrocki thanked United States President Donald Trump for his decision to send additional American troops to Poland.
The outpouring of gratitude came after Trump said on Thursday (21) that he had, citing his relationship with Nawrocki as the reason.
“Good alliances are those based on cooperation, mutual respect, and a commitment to our shared security,” Nawrocki wrote in X.
I stand and will stand guard over the Polish-American alliance – an important pillar of segurança de cada lar polonês e de toda a Europe.
Good alliances are those based on cooperation, mutual respect and a commitment to our shared security.Thank you President of the United States…
— Karol Nawrocki (@NawrockiKn)
“I thank US President Donald J. Trump for his friendship with Poland and for decisions whose practical dimension we see very clearly today,” Nawrocki added on Thursday evening.
The decision to send additional troops to Poland confirms that Polish-American ties are “very strong, and Poland is an exemplary ally”, added Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz in X.
President D. Trump’s decision to send 5,000 additional troops to Poland confirms that Polish-American relations are very strong, and Poland is a model and iron ally 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇸
It’s good that for fundamental issues for the security of our homeland, we fight…
— Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (@KosiniakKamysz)
On Tuesday (19), US Vice President JD Vance told reporters that it had been postponed, but that it was not correct to say that troops were being withdrawn from Europe.
Previously, Polish authorities had been alarmed by reports that the Pentagon had moved there, but reassured Poles that this was not true.
The US had been reviewing it and had long been expected to scale it back following Trump’s demands that NATO take on a greater role in Europe’s defense.
Trump welcomed Nawrocki to the White House in May last year and supported him at a crucial moment before the Polish election, in which Nawrocki defeated the candidate of the Polish prime minister’s pro-European and centrist party, Donald Tusk.
He met with Nawrocki again at the White House in September and said at the time that the US could increase its troop presence in Poland and promised to guarantee the country’s defense.
