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US Opens Missile Base In Poland Seen By Kremlin As A Threat | Military News | US News | N18G The United States officially opened a new air defense base in northern Poland on Wednesday, as Warsaw seeks to reassure citizens that NATO guarantees their security amid jitters after Donald Trump's presidential election victory.Ballistic missile defense base in northern Poland declared fully operationalPoliticsSituated in the town of Redzikowo near the Baltic coast, the base has been in the works since the 2000s and Warsaw says it shows Poland's military alliance with Washington remains solid, whoever is in the White House.Polish President Andrzej Duda, a conservative who has stressed his warm ties with Trump, attended a function to open the base, which the Kremlin calls a bid to contain Russia by moving American military infrastructure nearer its borders.Duda said that, amid Moscow’s war in Ukraine, America is a “guarantor of the security of the Republic of Poland, as well as of the entire North Atlantic Alliance.”Show more