Cable: US-Polish troop fracas due partly to bad US messaging

Cable: US-Polish troop fracas due partly to bad US messaging

Conflicting U.S. messaging helped cause “major political and psychological shock” in Poland over the past week after the U.S. canceled a planned deployment of thousands of American troops to the country, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by POLITICO. U.S. President Donald Trump reversed the decision this week, but the political damage to the relationship may be hard to repair. Polish officials saw the cancellation of the deployment a…

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US Inconsistency on Troop Deployment Undermines Poland’s Trust: Newspaper

Contradictory US statements on the cancellation of the planned deployment of American troops to Poland have caused a quot;major political and psychological shockquot; in Warsaw, Politico reported, citing an American diplomatic cable.