Btw, do you believe this neocon globalist propaganda piece will readers on FR, especially when it praises Obama and takes swipes at Trump, who is not even President yet.
You are missing the word “reach” there.
Yes, you are on Free Republic.
I do believe that the Poles are happy to see Americans. They were carved up first by the Cossacks, then by Austria, Russia and Prussia, to whom they were kept in bondage for centuries. Last time around, they were overrun by Germany and the Soviets combined, then overrun by the Soviets, then kept in bondage to communism for decades. America was what they hoped for back then, and instead they got Stalin and fake sovereignty. They’re genuinely scared right now, and American faces are good news to them.
That doesn’t mean that this was a wise move by O, more like a spiteful four-year-old knocking all the building blocks down before going home in a huff. Trump, however, promised to treat US allies better in future, and so he can’t very well just disavow the deployment and go back to square one. That would send a negative signal around the world, and if ever there was a worthy ally who’s historically been neglected, it’s Poland.
He needs to keep a diminished force there as a trip wire. The fact that the numbers go down will reassure Putin that The US is not looking for war. The fact that he keeps some there will warn Putin and reassure Poland and all other allies that the US is not to be trifled with.