News of the possible deployment, announced on Jan.
would increase its troop presence in NATO countries in Eastern Europe if Russia invades Ukraine as it seems poised to do.
While Biden acknowledges that Ukraine is not a member of NATO, he emphasized that neighboring countries Poland and Romania are, and that the U.
Yet the NATO allies in Eastern Europe, many of which were once Soviet satellite states, provide a gray area that both the U.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has deployed hundreds of thousands of service members to Europe.
and European countries during this period involved the creation of a series of institutions to help structure the rules and norms of international relations.
This change in mission came with the expansion of NATO membership to Central and Eastern European countries, such as Hungary and Poland, and the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
This eastward push came with objections from Russia in the 1990s, which has long worried about the security of its western borders with Europe.
The beginning of the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and the 2003 invasion of Iraq brought massive changes in the United States’ military position globally as it shifted focus to Central Asia and the Middle East.
In 1989, the United States had 248,621 permanent troops stationed in West Germany, 27,639 in the United Kingdom, 15,706 in Italy and 3,382 in Greece.
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