Anonymous ID: 64c933 June 8, 2020, 7:05 a.m. No.9532560   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2595 >>2655 >>2707

Trump orders nearly 10K troops removed from Germany in ‘unacceptable’ move

 

By Mark Moore

 

June 8, 2020 | 9:23am

 

Trump last week directed the Pentagon to cut the number of US troops stationed in Germany by 9,500, reducing about a quarter of the forces in the country.

 

A top German official said it was “unacceptable” – a move that could impact the long-standing relationship between the NATO allies.

“This is completely unacceptable, especially since nobody in Washington thought about informing its NATO ally Germany in advance,” Peter Beyer, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, told the Rheinische Post newspaper, according to Reuters.

Beyer, Germany’s Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, told the DPA news agency that “the German-US relationship could be severely affected by such a decision from the US president.”

A senior administration official told the Wall Street Journal that internal discussions have been ongoing since September, adding that yanking the troops has nothing to do with Merkel’s decision not to attend the G-7 meeting in Washington this summer.

Merkel’s government said Monday it still has heard no official word from Washington.

Meanwhile, Poland hopes some of the US troops being pulled from Germany will be reassigned there.

“I deeply hope that as a result of the many talks that we had … part of the troops based today in Germany which are being removed by the United States … will indeed come to Poland,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told private radio RMF24, Reuters reported. “The decision is now on the US side.”

 

https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/trump-orders-nearly-10k-troops-removed-from-germany/

 

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