NATO summit in Madrid in the news ticker: USA announce massive troop transfers to Europe

Created: 06/28/2022, 17:18

By: Patrick Mayer

On June 29th and 30th, the transatlantic defense alliance NATO meets in Madrid because of the Ukraine war.

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• Chancellor Scholz

  announces: Germany is planning the largest conventional army in Western Europe.

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NATO summit in Madrid: USA want to move more troops to Europe

Munich/Madrid - Further reactions to the Russia-Ukraine war are to be announced: the NATO summit will take place in Madrid on Wednesday and Thursday (June 29/30).

The transatlantic defense alliance wants to use this to present further answers to the Russian attack on its western neighbor.

The first indications were already given in advance: The USA wants to permanently strengthen its military presence in Europe.

The US government will make specific announcements Wednesday about "long-term" additional forces on land, sea and air, US President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday (June 28).

The pledges would “extend beyond the duration of this crisis.”

Among other things, more US warships should be stationed at the Rota military base in Spain, which the United States also uses - it is about six instead of four destroyers.

Chancellor Scholz announces: Germany is planning the largest conventional army in Western Europe

Sullivan also hinted at a renewed increase in forces on NATO's eastern flank, but gave no details.

It's about "accounting for a more acute and heightened Russian threat," he said.

There are now more than 100,000 US soldiers in Europe due to the increase in troops due to the war in Ukraine.

In the past few months, the USA has not ruled out a permanently higher troop presence.

Among other things, 4,000 other soldiers arrived at the Grafenwöhr military training area in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate in mid-March.

Stationed in Bavaria: Prime Minister Markus Söder (Med., CSU) welcomed 4,000 US soldiers in Grafenwoehr in the Upper Palatinate in March.

© Armin Weigel/dpa

German-American cooperation is particularly emphasized: According to Olaf Scholz (SPD), Germany is now the country in Europe that, alongside the USA, "certainly makes the largest contribution" to NATO.

"Then, and that is also important for NATO's overall defense capability, the largest conventional army within the NATO framework in Europe will be created," said the Chancellor after the G7 summit meeting in Bavaria on the ARD program "Bekennen Farb".

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With the approval of the special fund of one hundred billion euros for the Bundeswehr by the German Bundestag in response to the Russia-Ukraine war, consensus was reached in Germany "that we spend more money on defense," explained Scholz: "We will spend an average of around 70 to 80 billion euros per year on defense over the next few years.

And then Germany is the country that invests the most in this.”

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