On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said he believed the Pentagon was not properly informing the White House about troop deployments to Europe and that based on his conversations with the White House he was “surprised that nothing has happened with those 5,000 troops” who were supposed to be in Poland.
Discussing the deployment of 5,000 troops to Poland, Bacon said, “I am concerned that there is a lack of commitment on the part of the Pentagon to get this done.”
He said, “The White House actually agrees with me. I’ve talked to the White House. I think they were surprised that nothing happened to those 5,000 troops. I think the Pentagon is not giving them enough information, I think. But the Pentagon responded, and they were angry about it. And I don’t really care. … They’re – they don’t like to be pushed around. But, in this case, they have to be pushed around. “There needs to be a push, because he has shown a lack of ability to do the right thing when it comes to NATO, Russia and Ukraine.”
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