U.S. Vice President JD Vance said he would be “shocked” if Donald Trump was in favor of moving American nuclear weapons into Poland.
“I haven’t talked to the president about that particular issue, but I would be shocked if he was supportive of nuclear weapons extending further east into Europe,” Vance said during an interview on Fox News. “We have got to be careful.”
Vance was responding to comments made by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who called on the U.S. to station nukes in his country to deter Russia from further aggression, telling the FT in an interview: “I think it’s not only that the time has come, but that it would be safer if those weapons were already here.”
The U.S. currently has nuclear weapons bases in several NATO countries in Western Europe, in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands, as well as in Turkey.