Poland presses Trump on canceled US deployment: ‘We will get answers’

Published May 19, 2026 11:14am ET



Poland said questions remain about why President Donald Trump canceled the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops to the European country. 

In an interview published Tuesday, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Pawel Zalewski said he plans to press the Trump administration on why the Pentagon canceled the deployment of more than 4,000 Army troops, a move that reduced American military levels in Europe to near pre-2022 levels. The previous day, Polish deputy prime minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz warned that the reorganization “cannot be made at the cost of the biggest ally of the United States in Europe.” 

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