Why?
Because the German Chancellor dissed him?
Yea …..
Also?
Russia isn’t doing to good against the Ukraine, so maybe Trump can give Putin a bone?
This spite announcement will take up to a year to happen
So?
It COULD. Be changed.
This sort of thing IS Short cited….
Thin skinned Trump and Hegseth have been dissing Congress while they have their hands out for More Defense money before the Democrats take over the House…
I forgot the part about Trump being angry that NO other country is helping him get his butt kicked by Iran…
One can wait and see how Congress is gonna react to it…
In response?
Germay and the Ukraine ARE on the way to being the most heavily armed countries in Europe….
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The president has in recent weeks berated several European allies, including Germany, for what he calls their inadequate support for the war in Iran, which the United States and Israel began in late February.
Merz has sought a close relationship with Trump, enduring some domestic blowback given the president’s unpopularity with German voters. But the chancellor went off-script Monday while speaking to German high-schoolers, saying that Iranian leaders had “humiliated” the United States.
The Americans “quite obviously went into this war in Iran without any strategy whatsoever,” Merz told the students. “Especially since the Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skilled at not negotiating,” he said.
The White House referred a request for comment to the Pentagon. The German Embassy in Washington declined to comment…
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Friday’s announcement will affect an Army brigade combat team already deployed inside the country, a long-range fires battalion set to arrive later this year and potentially more troops, the senior Defense Department official said.
Officials have not specified how many U.S. troops would remain in Germany, or elsewhere in Europe, once the 5,000 personnel are withdrawn. Tens of thousands of service members are deployed at bases throughout the continent.
Removing the units will return America’s force posture there to levels unseen in Europe since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022 — after which the Biden administration surged forces to the continent in an effort to deter further attacks from the Kremlin.
The change is likely to spur criticism from some lawmakers in Congress, who required the administration to submit a detailed plan before lowering the number of U.S. military personnel in Europe below 76,000…
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In a statement Friday, Sen. Jack Reed (Rhode Island), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on Trump to reverse the decision.
“Weakening our military footprint in Europe at a time when Russian forces continue to mercilessly attack Ukraine and harass our NATO allies is a priceless gift to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and suggests American commitments to our allies are dependent on the president’s mood,” Reed said.
German officials had been encouraged by praise from U.S. counterparts for Berlin’s first-ever military strategy that envisions the country becoming the strongest conventional fighting force in Europe by 2039.…..
Note….
Some old-timers will be shaking their head a rearming of the country America fought in WWII…
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