The Shifting Sands of NATO's Transatlantic Relationship The recent announcements from Washington on troop deployments in Poland and Germany have sent shockwaves throughout the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) community.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's attempts to reassure allies at a foreign ministers' meeting in Sweden only seem to have added to the confusion, highlighting the increasingly strained relationship between the United States and its European partners.
The Trump administration's decision to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland followed the cancellation of a planned deployment of 4,000 troops just a week prior.