{"id":57777,"date":"2026-05-20T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57777"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:18:41","slug":"poland-says-us-troop-deployment-delayed-not-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57777","title":{"rendered":"Poland says US troop deployment delayed, not canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WARSAW, May 20  &#8211; Poland&#8217;s defence minister said no \u200bdecisions have been made to reduce the \u200cnumber of American troops in the country and recent U.S. moves may only temporarily delay their deployment, \u200bafter meeting U.S. Vice Chairman of the \u200bJoint Chiefs of Staff Christopher Mahoney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President \u2060JD Vance told reporters on Tuesday a U.S.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/finance\/vance-says-us-troop-deployment-poland-has-been-delayed-2026-05-19\/\">troop deployment \u200bto Poland<\/a>&nbsp;had been delayed, but that it was \u200bnot accurate to say the troops were being withdrawn from Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poland was earlier&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/us-scraps-deployment-4000-troops-poland-2026-05-14\/\">alarmed by reports<\/a>&nbsp;the Pentagon had canceled \u200bplans to deploy 4,000 U.S troops in the country. Officials \u200btried to reassure Poles that this was not the \u200ccase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Decisions \u2060that are made in the U.S. and their consequences may temporarily delay the deployment of U.S. forces to Poland, which is exactly what we \u200bsaid&#8211;that there \u200bwas no \u2060decision to reduce them, only a temporary suspension,&#8221; Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told \u200breporters after meeting Mahoney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the \u200bPentagon \u2060said it would withdraw 5,000 troops from NATO ally Germany, in part due to a widening \u2060rift \u200bbetween U.S. President Donald Trump \u200band Europe linked to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">the Iran conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) WARSAW, May 20 &#8211; Poland&#8217;s defence minister said no \u200bdecisions have been made to reduce the \u200cnumber of American troops in the country and recent U.S. moves may only temporarily delay their deployment, \u200bafter meeting U.S. Vice Chairman of the \u200bJoint Chiefs of Staff Christopher Mahoney. Vice President \u2060JD Vance told reporters on Tuesday a U.S.&nbsp;troop deployment \u200bto Poland&nbsp;had been delayed, but that it was \u200bnot accurate to say the troops were being withdrawn from Europe. Poland was earlier&nbsp;alarmed by reports&nbsp;the Pentagon had canceled \u200bplans to deploy 4,000 U.S troops in the country. Officials \u200btried to reassure Poles that&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57779,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57777\/revisions\/57779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}