The United States isn’t retreating from Europe into isolation, as some critics of the Trump administration claim. It is advancing in a different direction, and it is beginning where it should, by backing Poland as an important U.S. ally.

On June 12, the administration announced a new $4 billion loan to Poland through its foreign military financing program. Undersecretary of State Thomas DiNanno told the Polish Press Agency that the U.S. would provide funds for arms purchases, raising the total military credit available to Poland to $20 billion.