DW: Poland, US hold controversial Middle East conference in Warsaw
The US is seeking allies in central and eastern Europe, teaming up with Poland for a Middle East conference in Warsaw. Ahead of the event, expat Iranians protested the regime in Tehran. Monika Sieradzka from Warsaw.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo struck a chord in Poland this week when he said that the US had steered clear of the region for too long, leaving Russia to fill that "void."
Warsaw sees Washington as a guarantor of security in the region. The Polish government is proud to have purchased 20 US-made HIMARS rocket launchers — a deal that was struck just before the start of the conference.
As the contract was signed — in the presence of Polish and US soldiers — the US vice president, Mike Pence, assured Warsaw the US would "stand behind Poland."
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Update: Pence urges EU to pull out of nuclear deal, says Iran planning ‘new Holocaust’ (Times of Israel)
WNU Editor: When it comes to Iran most EU governments have a different agenda .... America Wants to Talk About Iran, But Europe Doesn’t (Bloomberg).
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In other news Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and other Sunni states are having pictures taken of them in the same room, unthinkable except for the last couple years. Trump is building a new alliance with Arabs and Israeli's working in common cause to defeat Iran. Its public, the governments are boasting of it and it's historic.
Also Trump is splitting the EU on Iran with the Poland conference. Against Trump is Berlin and Paris and the EU functionaries, with England trying to triangulate. With Trump are the EU problem children who have deep grievances against Berlin and Paris and Poland quite obviously positioning itself as an alternative to Germany for US forces in Europe.
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