Polish defense official says US has decided to establish a base in Poland

Poland will fulfill a longtime goal of hosting a permanent U.S. military base, a Polish defense leader said Friday, adding that the two countries are nearing an agreement to jointly develop weapons.“We understand that decision has been made,” Paweł Ksawery Zalewski, secretary of state at Poland’s Ministry of National Defence, told an audience in Washington, D.C.Asked for comment, a Pentagon spokesman said, “We have nothing to announce at this time.”The Polish g