{"id":399667,"date":"2019-03-15T23:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/serious-offer-for-permanent-us-base-negotiated\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:43:24","slug":"serious-offer-for-permanent-us-base-negotiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/serious-offer-for-permanent-us-base-negotiated\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSerious Offer\u201d For \u201cPermanent\u201d US Base Negotiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-03-14\/polands-fort-trump-becoming-reality-serious-offer-negotiated-permanent-us-base\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>March 15, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poland\u2019s push to house a major permanent US military base dubbed last year by Polish President\u00a0Andrzej Duda as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-18\/polish-president-floats-major-us-base-named-fort-trump-alongside-nodding-us\">\u201cFort Trump\u201d<\/a> is a big step closer to becoming a reality this week after top US defense officials met with Polish counterparts in Warsaw to negotiate an offer.\u00a0US\u00a0Defense Undersecretary for Policy John Rood led a delegation to\u00a0the former Soviet satellite country and longtime east European defense ally on Wednesday to discuss the US \u201crobust offer\u201d to establish a permanent facility on Polish soil.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Poles previously\u00a0<strong>vowed\u00a0to pay $2 billion<\/strong> for a base that could host a division-sized installment of US forces, which the US has called \u201cvery generous\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>though likely to fall short of the total cost for such a base.\u00a0\u201cWe have come forward with what we think is <strong>a very serious robust offer<\/strong> and we\u2019re working out some of the technicalities this very week, when we hope to have a solid foundation to work from having coming out of this meeting,\u201d a spokesperson for Rood\u2019s office informed the House Armed Services Committee on\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/fort%20trump%20proposal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"80aebd6a-60c7-4a65-9262-6a2006f1c5f8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\"\/><figcaption><em>Image source: AFP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though the idea of a permanent US base in Poland has been floated for years, especially after the Russian-Ukraine conflict grew hot, last September\u2019s official visit between Presidents Duda and Trump at the White House gave it real momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Duda had dropped the\u00a0surprising proposal during a press briefing,<strong>\u00a0suggesting it could be called \u201cFort Trump\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>to which Trump grinned and appeared to nod\u00a0in approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite you to post more American military troops in Poland,\u201d Duda said, describing US presence in Poland as a \u201cguarantor of security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Trump responded at the time as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe\u2019re looking at it very seriously, I know Poland likes the idea very much, and it\u2019s something that we are considering, yes,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Trump told reporters during the Sept. 19 press&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/polands-fort-trump-a-reality-serious-offer-for-permanent-us-base-negotiated.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeMarch 15, 2019 Poland\u2019s push to house a major permanent US military base dubbed last year by Polish President\u00a0Andrzej Duda as \u201cFort Trump\u201d is a big step closer to becoming a reality this week after top US defense officials met with Polish counterparts in Warsaw to negotiate an offer.\u00a0US\u00a0Defense Undersecretary for Policy John Rood 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