US president Donald Trump has pledged to send at least 1,000 extra troops to Poland to deter Russian aggression.
He also praised Poland's nationalist-populist government, while again attacking Germany on defence spending and on its Russia gas pipeline.
Trump signed the military deal with Polish president Andrzej Duda in Washington on Wednesday (12 June).
The accord stipulated that Poland would pay for "basing and infrastructure for 1,000 American troops".
But Trump...
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