The NATO Summit continues – Permanent headquarters of the US 5th Corps in Poland – What will it do in Britain, Germany, Italy.
And while the NATO summit is underway, US President Biden has announced an increase in the American military presence throughout Europe.
At the start of the NATO summit in Madrid, Joe Biden told Stoltenberg that the United States “will reaffirm our commitment to defend every square centimeter of our territory
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– We welcome Finland and Sweden, which have applied for membership. This decision will strengthen NATO and improve the security situation. This is a clear message that NATO is strong, united and we will continue to contribute to our collective defense, said Joe Biden.
– We decided to send additional US troops, increasing them to 100,000. We will continue to respond to the threat directly in consultation with our allies. We will establish the permanent headquarters of the US 5th Corps in Poland and establish a response capability across the eastern flank. We will increase our capability to the size of a brigade, both in terms of air and ground forces. We will send two additional squadrons to Great Britain, announced the US president.
Biden said the US and NATO would be able to respond to “threats from all directions”. “We will send two additional squadrons” of F-35 fighter jets to the United Kingdom and “put additional air defense capabilities” in Germany and Italy, the president also clarified during a brief speech.
“The moment Putin shattered the peace in Europe, the US had to react, which showed that NATO is more important than ever,” he said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Madrid.
The closed-door meeting, which lasted nearly an hour, marked the start of the Turkish president’s bilateral contacts at the three-day high-level summit in the Spanish capital.
After the family photo, President Erdogan shook hands with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Johnson, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
