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However, it would be ridiculously expensive to move infrastructure from Germany. Depends on who pays for it.
breakingdefense.com - Poland agrees to pay almost all costs of US troop presenceWASHINGTON: The Polish government will pay the majority of costs associated with stationing 5,500 US troops at bases within its borders as part of a new security cooperation pact, the Pentagon has confirmed to Breaking Defense.
The deal comes as the Trump administration keeps prodding longtime allies like South Korea and Japan to pay more of the costs of tens of thousands of US troops within their borders, while President Trump has complained that countries like Germany don’t meet defense spending goals outlined by NATO.
But Poland, which already meets the NATO-mandated goal of spending 2 percent of GDP on national defense by 2024, has agreed to take more US forces, aircraft and drones while footing what is likely to be a hefty bill to build infrastructure for those forces as they flow in and out of the country on a rotational basis.Move troops and facilities there gradually.
As of July, 11 are exceeding their targets. Finland is a new NATO member, they weren't on the list before. Of the others, only Slovakia, Hungary and Romania really moved the needle. The Germans, French and Italians aren't doing much but at Italy has a decent PM now so that might change.
At any rate. EU countries need to foot their share of the defense bill.
They're not.
