Last week’s announcement of plans to withdraw 9,500 US troops from Germany was a surprise to many. It’s still a surprise to German officials, who say the US has yet to contact them and tell them about it. Top US security officials similarly say they weren’t told about the matter at all before it was announced.
This makes the decision and the timing of the announcement curious. While Trump is known to have problems with Germany, and to want to cut troops to spite NATO, it’s strange that he did it suddenly without either telling Germany or his own team.
While the cuts didn’t exactly come out of nowhere, they’re also not popular choices. A number of House Republicans have issued a letter saying they are “very concerned” about the cuts, saying they want to strengthen the US in Europe to confront Russia.
US troops have been in Germany for decades, always supposedly to confront Russia. With that justification, any cuts are going to be attacked, and the expectation would be a build-up going forward.
… Did Merkel switch to a Huawei phone after Obama tapped her?
Russia is just salivating at the thought of no more troops in Germany so they can attack. Those troops are what is holding the Russians at bay. That and making Montenegro part of NATO of course.
Russia doesn’t have very big military budget . It is highly unlikely they will want to move a lot of Troops around .
I was being sarcastic. I thought that was obvious. Sorry.
No mention of where they are going of course. As the “russian front” moves east, likely the US troops will move that way as well.
Again, just goes to show that Republicans are just as reptilian as the Democrats.