Trump signals progress on establishing U.S. Army base in Poland

As tensions along NATO's eastern flank continue to shape the strategic calculus of the post-Cold War order, the Trump administration has signaled meaningful progress toward establishing a permanent U.S. Army base in Poland — a country whose geography places it at the very edge of the alliance's most contested frontier. The move reflects a durable truth of modern security politics: that physical presence carries a weight that diplomatic assurances alone cannot. For Poland, long anxious about its proximity to Russian power, the prospect of American boots on its soil represents not merely a milit