Could be…..
Actually?
Poland IS closer to Ukraine , eh?
5,000 troops sent there would add to the 10,000 already deployed in Poland, and should give Putin another headache and while leaving more that 30,000 American troops still in Germany….
Might actually be a good move for NATO Donald….
U.S. President Donald Trump said he “might” move U.S. troops from Germany to Poland, as the Pentagon prepares to pull around 5,000 American soldiers out of Germany over the next year.
“Poland would like that,” Trump told journalists on Friday when asked about the prospect. “We have a great relationship with Poland. I have a great relationship with the president. … I like him a lot, so that’s possible.”
The Pentagon earlier this month confirmed the U.S. will withdraw 5,000 troops from military bases in Germany, following through on a threat Trump made after sparring with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the Iran war. Trump has since gone on to warn that the Pentagon would be “cutting a lot further than 5,000.”
In a fit of pique Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany. He also said that he was considering pulling soldiers out of Italy and Spain.
Why these three countries? Because their leaders had the temerity to criticise the US president.
Trump is cutting off Uncle Sam’s face to spite his nose while shooting him in the foot. In short, it is a stupid move. America needs Europe. For a start. Europe is the largest financial pillar outside the United States supporting the US defense industry—it spends more than $100 billion a year. And the US defense industry is five percent of America’s GDP.
American bases in Europe also enable the US to project power throughout Eurasia, Africa, the Middle East and the western end of the Indo-Pacific region. It has bases in Britain, Germany, the Baltic countries, Poland, Spain, Italy and even Greenland.
The US bases enable the Pentagon to pre-position equipment and fuel for rapid deployments; provide some of the world’s finest hospitals; repair centres; intelligence; command centres and deployment infrastructure. Europe is the foundational stone that makes global power projection possible.
Trump’s recently published National Security Strategy focused on “civilisational decline” in Europe and the need to focus on the Western Hemisphere. But it also said that Europe would “remain as a platform for US global operations.”
Given the above, it should follow that the US president should learn to be nicer to the people he needs.
Trump is off to China next week. To be exact, he is in Beijing next Thursday and Friday for talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
At the moment the US and China are in the middle of a trade truce. That is because the trade war that Trump launched last April proved disastrous to both countries. Trump raised tariffs to over 100 percent. China immediately cut off America’s access to the rare earth minerals. Trump retaliated by reducing Chinese access to American technology and financial instruments. The result was a Mexican stand-off.
Both sides backed away, lowered tariffs and resumed access to products. But the spate left a bad taste in the mouths of both leaders. They think that Sino-American cooperation will only benefit the other. In fact, the only thing keeping Trump and Xi talking to each other is the fear of the economic damage each can inflict on each other’s country.
This will upset US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who has spent the first part of this year negotiated a set of trade deals which he hopes will be signed in Beijing. According to diplomatic sources, it is more likely that the best result will be a pair of fixed smiles and a handshake….
From Tom Arms in LibDemVoice, an independent blog for the Liberal Democrats in the U.K.:
https://www.libdemvoice.org/tom-arms-world-review-160-79676.html
This analysis’ comes at two levels…
First…..
Trump harping against NATO, Leveling tariffs and launching a war with Iran has been watched by EVERYONE in Europe as a complete FUCK UP as Merz pointed out….
Trump HAS turned his back on America’ friends….
He’s feeling the pain…..
He isn’t actually cutting troop levels in Europe
The Senate probably won’t allow it
On China ?
In actuality?
The US and China are LOCKED to each other
Like in Iran?
The military IS Different that the civilian leaders….
The media stories tend to underestimate the ECONOMIC ties between each other…
Which IS WHY I assume Trump is traveling TO China in a few days….
Remember……
Trump IS About Money
A LOUSY Foreign Policy Guy….
A worse Government Runnet