{"id":1532245,"date":"2022-06-29T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532245"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:20:03","slug":"u-s-military-makes-biggest-expansion-into-europe-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-makes-biggest-expansion-into-europe-in-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Makes Biggest Expansion Into Europe In Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-military-makes-biggest-expansion-into-europe-in-decades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States will increase the number of soldiers stationed in Europe to 100,000 by adding 20,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/military\">troops<\/a>, President <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\">Joe Biden<\/a> said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes four months after the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russian<\/a> invasion of <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a> and occurs despite a 1997 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/official_texts_25470.htm\">agreement<\/a> with Russia stating that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nato\">NATO<\/a>) would avoid the \u201cadditional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces\u201d in the \u201ccurrent and foreseeable security environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States plans to establish a permanent forward command post in Poland, according to a White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/06\/29\/fact-sheet-the-2022-nato-summit-in-madrid\/\">fact sheet<\/a>. Likewise, Washington will move a Brigade Combat Team to Romania, place two squadrons of F-35 aircraft in the United Kingdom, add more air defense to Germany and Italy, and increase the number of naval destroyers based in Rota, Spain, from four to six.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure that NATO is ready to meet threats from all directions across every domain,\u201d Biden said at NATO\u2019s summit in Madrid, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-says-us-changing-force-posture-europe-based-threat-2022-06-29\/\">Reuters<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re proving that NATO is more needed now than it ever has been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House also announced support for the trilateral agreement between Turkey, Sweden, and Finland for the latter two nations to join NATO \u2014 a military alliance founded by the United States and other Western nations at the beginning of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike other NATO free riders, Sweden and Finland possess robust military capabilities and have demonstrated decades of cooperation with the U.S.,\u201d Heritage Foundation foreign policy expert James Carafano said in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. \u201cThey will help advance U.S. interests by thwarting Russia and China\u2019s growing influence, improving regional security, and making future conflict less likely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NATO members also plan to launch a \u201cComprehensive Assistance Package\u201d for Ukraine \u2014 a move that follows several military and humanitarian aid packages from the United States. At the end of May, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/05\/21\/biden-signs-40-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-during-trip-to-asia.html\">greenlit<\/a> a $40 billion package, which included funds to support the Ukrainian economy and address food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the food supply in Ukraine, a Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russia-is-blocking-ukraine-from-exporting-food-threatening-africa-with-starvation%C2%A0\">blockade of the Black Sea<\/a> with ships and land mines has prevented agricultural goods from leaving the country. The two eastern European nations produce a combined 30% of the world\u2019s traded wheat, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodsecurityportal.org\/node\/1921\">International Food Policy Research Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot use the hunger of people as a weapon of war,\u201d Joseph Borrell, the European Union\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeas.europa.eu\/eeas\/foreign-affairs-council-press-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-upon-arrival-2_en\">said<\/a> to other diplomats earlier this month. \u201cMillions of tons of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger. This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many officials are now exhorting the United States to increase food exports around the world to supplement the lost shipments from Russia and Ukraine. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/during-world-economic-forum-imf-leader-calls-for-america-to-increase-food-exports-amid-dire-global-food-shortages\">said<\/a> at the World Economic Forum last month that global food shortages constitute a \u201cdire\u201d situation and therefore recommended \u201copenness in exports of food,\u201d refraining from \u201cfood restrictions,\u201d and not buying \u201cmore food than you need for your own country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/africa\">African<\/a> wheat imports come from Russia and Ukraine, with some countries importing \u201cmore than one third of their wheat from the two countries,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/unctad.org\/system\/files\/official-document\/osginf2022d1_en.pdf\">United Nations<\/a> report. East African nations like Kenya and Ethiopia were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/asian-african-nations-face-famine-as-ukraine-crisis-hits-global-food-supply\">already struggling with drought<\/a> and livestock deaths before the new threat to the global food supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will increase the number of soldiers stationed in Europe to 100,000 by adding 20,000 troops, President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. The move comes four months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and occurs despite a 1997 agreement with Russia stating that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would avoid the \u201cadditional &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1528507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}