ZAGAN, Poland – On a snowy field in southwest Poland, U.S. tanks and troops gathered on Jan. 30 to defend against a resurgent Russia that President Trump wants to befriend.
The major new deployments of tanks and other heavy equipment will fan out to nations on the Russian frontier this week, part of the largest infusion of U.S. troops to Europe since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. But the long-planned effort comes at the most unsettled time for U.S.-European relations since World War II, with Trump questioning old alliances and seeking to build bridges to the Kremlin.
