Wrong. From the Guardian:
American soldiers during a welcome ceremony at the Polish-German border in Olszyna, Poland. Photograph: Natalia Dobryszycka/AFP/Getty Images
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Russia says US troops arriving in Poland pose threat to its security
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Early deployment of biggest American force in Europe since cold war may be attempt to lock Trump into strategy
Ewen MacAskill Defence correspondent
Thu 12 Jan 2017 13.54 EST
The Kremlin has hit out at the biggest deployment of US troops in
Europe since the end of the cold war, branding the arrival of troops and tanks in Poland as a threat to Russia’s national security.
The deployment, intended to counter what Nato portrays as Russian aggression in eastern Europe, will see US troops permanently stationed along Russia’s western border for the first time.
About 1,000 of a promised 4,000 troops arrived in
Poland at the start of the week, and a formal ceremony to welcome them is to be held on Saturday.
Some people waved and held up American flags as the troops, tanks and heavy armoured vehicles crossed into south-western Poland from Germany, according to Associated Press.
But their arrival was not universally applauded. In Moscow, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “We perceive it as a threat. These actions threaten our interests, our security. Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders. It’s [the US], not even a European state.”